Infosecurity Opinions
Fighting Cyber Threats with an Open Data Model
Behavioral-based analytics, machine learning and more flexible analytic solutions are required to defend the enterprise.
Cyber Warfare: How Militaries Defend Themselves Online
As hackers make use of increasingly destructive cyber weapons, how are militaries fortifying their digital defenses?
Bull-Mastiff or Toy Poodle: What's Guarding your Front Door?
Authentication is one of the first lines of defense for protecting your company’s assets, but not all authentication schemes are equally capable of withstanding assault.
Evolving Access to Applications
Today’s digital ecosystem demands an altogether more rapid, seamless and open approach to access.
The Questions Before you Buy and Use IAM Technology
An IAM program requires buy-in from the enterprise and all the stakeholders, and this is required from people and budget across the enterprise.
Could your Medical Device Catch a Cold?
Implanted devices have been around for decades to allow doctors to collect vital patient data, but many of these devices were distributed without any type of encryption or defensive mechanisms in place.
How to turn Cybersecurity into a Business Asset
World-class organizations recognize that cybersecurity can, and should, be a powerful enabler for business.
Legal Ramifications of a Ransomware Attack
One of the most striking items of Petya/NotPetya was a major international law firm having to announce that they had been affected by the outbreak.
Data Privacy Best Practices for Employees and Employers
Employees and HR departments need to be vigilant with the data they are sharing and receiving.
ITSM & GDPR - Is Your Business Ready?
Why businesses using ITSM need to plan now for wholesale changes to data protection.
Tear up Traditional Approach to Patch Management
Ensuring full IT security is a thankless task that is often undermined by regular software updates, but it’s a necessary evil in today’s workplace.
Beware: Privileged Insiders Will Give Up the Crown Jewels
When identifying mission-critical information assets, organizations should take into account the extent to which: the information asset contributes to, or supports, business value, and how the business could be impacted in the event of the information asset being compromised.
Cyber-Threats Call for a New Secure Browsing Solution, and Fast
Ransomware and other malware requires enterprises to think differently about internet security.
The Three Ways Businesses can Contain Growing Threat Surfaces
The disparity between what is being implemented and what is being adopted by businesses, the new points of failure and how to mitigate them.
WannaCry Could Return in Stealth Mode: Are Your Endpoints Ready?
What controls could have dampened the worm’s propagation? What measures could have been effective at preventing the infection? How might these security controls work or fail in future against copycat variations of this attack?
The Executive Branch Takes Stock of Data Security
Exploring the memorandum, holding department heads accountable for their agencies data security. What will the cybersecurity assessments likely show?
Five Reasons Call Centers Should Abandon ‘Stop/Start’ Systems
If your call center takes customers’ payment card information over the phone, you may very well be relying on an inadequate and outdated practice: stop/start
Why You're Probably Not Safe from Ransomware
While there’s no failsafe way to guard against ransomware, the best defense is a bit of offense.
Why are Businesses still Taking Unnecessary Risks with Cybersecurity?
Businesses continue to carry significant amounts of IT related commercial risk that is either misunderstood, poorly communicated, or worse still, unidentified.
20 Million Reasons for C-Suite to pay Attention to Data Loss
Limited to 4% of annual turnover, the penalty is nevertheless a sobering prospect – especially when you consider how easy it is to fall foul of the regulations.
