Infosecurity Opinions

  1. Critical Infrastructure: Fear the Consequences, Not the Security Solutions

    The effects of a retail enterprise breach pale in comparison to the potential catastrophic results of a cybersecurity breach involving Critical Infrastructure.

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      Karl Steinkamp

      Director, Cloud and Tech, Payments Advisory & Assessments, Coalfire

  2. Cybercrime Christmas is Coming

    What kind of cyber fraud retailers should expect during the seasonal shopping season.

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      Elad Ben-Meir

      CEO, SCADAfence

  3. A Sustained, Practical Approach is Needed for Incident Response

    Why can’t organizations get it right when mitigating the effects of security breaches?

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      Gert Van den Poel

      Director Product Management & IT, Reliance acsn

  4. Why Healthcare Mindsets Need to Change with the Software

    Healthcare providers need to prepare for push-back by creating a cultural mindset of security.

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      Doug Weber

      Director of Cloud Infrastructure & Operations, Revation

  5. Cybersecurity Folklore - Separating Fact from Fiction

    Why the top cybersecurity folklore traps still catches the industry out today.

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      Chris Mayers

      Chief Security Architect, Citrix

  6. A Tale of Two Breaches

    A tale of two DPOs in the case of two breaches, and who is the better prepared.

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      Matthias Maier

      Security Evangelist, Splunk

  7. PKI as IAM for M2M and IoT

    Enterprise IAM systems must support lost tokens, forgotten passwords, confused users, and the like.

  8. Data Protection Officer: Benefit Or Vanity Project?

    Many businesses are now questioning whether a DPO is a necessity or a role that adds minimal value to the business.

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      Steve Inglessis

      Commercial Director at DataRaze

  9. Adding Value to Native Cloud Application Security with CASB

    CASB technologies protect critical corporate data stored within cloud apps and encrypt data stored within cloud apps.

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      Paul Ilechko

      Senior Security Architect, Cedrus

  10. Upskilling - The Forgotten Solution to the Cyber Gap

    Upskilling staff can prove a viable piece of the solution to the skills shortage, particularly when the nature of the education system is considered.

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      Josh Mayfield

      Director of Security Strategy, Absolute

  11. In Anti-Virus, Who Can You Trust?

    For years we’ve been paying vendors to protect our endpoints; all the while, they serve as the perfect indexer for our sensitive data.

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      Scott Petry

      Co-Founder and CEO of Authentic8

  12. How Humans Blended with AI Can Better Defend

    What we need is to combine artificial with human intelligence to automate cyber-attack detection and response.

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      Chris Morales

      head of security analytics at Vectra

  13. Traditional Network Security Tactics Put Organizations at Risk

    Why traditional visualization, access-hardening and mitigation processes won’t cut it any longer.

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      Jason Baudreau

      Product Strategist, Network Innovations, NetBrain Technologies

  14. Investigations and ediscovery in Japan

    A combination of cultural differences, technical barriers and legal misunderstandings can lead to mismanagement of requests for information.

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      Lauren Grest

      Legal researcher, Kroll Ontrack

  15. An Egalitarian Approach to Data Security

    Data is one of the most valuable assets but this has made protecting company information significantly more challenging.

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      Richard Agnew

      VP UK, I & Northern Europe, Code42

  16. Beyond Security Event Feeds: Using Threat Intelligence Strategically

    The problem with threat intelligence is that there is too much of it and identifying which threats are relevant to an organization requires time-intensive, manual analysis and verification.

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      Oliver Rochford

      Applied Research Director- Threat Science Team, Securonix

  17. Creating a Human Firewall

    Organizations are aware of the importance of having cybersecurity technology in place but hackers exploit human nature.

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      Stephen Burke

      Founder & CEO, Cyber Risk Aware

  18. Looking Beyond Your Four Walls: Periphery Threat Intelligence

    Peripheral threat intelligence is the external Indicators of Compromise and threats that are beyond your organization's four walls.

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      Josh Fu

      Technical Account Manager

  19. Admin Privileges Run Rampant Across Organizations

    As an organization’s security needs evolve, rights and privileges can be doled out over time and securely

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      Brian Chappell

      Senior Director, Enterprise & Solution Architecture, Beyond Trust

  20. Security Alerts - A Case of the Boy Who Cried Wolf?

    Alerts and alarms are designed to draw attention, but when the barrage is constant, it’s easy to become desensitized.

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      Tony Rowan

      Chief Security Consultant, SentinelOne

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