Department of Defense (DoD) contractors understand that demonstrating security and compliance is critical to winning business with the Pentagon. Recently, the DoD has announced a new security standard designed to address cybersecurity concerns for contractors … Read more
When Equifax became arguably the first firm to have its outlook downgraded due to the cybersecurity issues recently, the long-term impact of cyber ignorance became amply clear. Today, as organizations are leveraging more and more … Read more
Where should we even start? That is a common question among company owners and executives when it comes to being presented with new cyber threats, compliance requirements, and/or regulations. There are malicious actor threats to … Read more
Introduction: “We must pass laws that require data minimization, ensuring companies do not keep sensitive data that they no longer need,” U.S. Senator Mark Warner and Vice Chairman of Senate Intelligence committee stated recently after … Read more
Organizations in the U.S. are faced with a growing web of complex foreign, federal, and state privacy and data protection laws that apply to their operations. Running afoul of these laws, particularly by suffering a … Read more
According to statistics and conversations with analysts from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), and members of the Federal … Read more
IT managers can’t take their eyes off hybrid cloud management. Hybrid cloud is the latest technology fad. In a hybrid cloud implementation, enterprises creating a computing environment is a mix of capabilities deployed across both … Read more
As a cyber professional, the perks that come with working for a large company are many – new equipment, latest technology, big salary, and free soda, to name a few. However, one perk a company … Read more
In the first article in this series, “Data Classification is the Key to Data Protection,” I asserted that “Data gains value from its use, not from being hidden and protected.” In the second article, “Data … Read more
Small businesses are rapidly becoming a prime target for malicious actors. The 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) estimated 58% of all breaches in 2017 took place within small businesses.1 From some perspective, the … Read more
