In many organizations, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and their team understands the need for a strategic approach to managing an enterprise information security program. However, continual tactical “fire drills” rarely
Why Organizations Need to Be More Than Just Compliant Enterprises across the industry-government-academia spectrum are struggling to balance the goals of improved security and regulatory compliance. Unfortunately, the two are not always
Today, massive numbers of uncorrelated and unprioritized alerts overwhelm network security operations. Staff are unable to respond to breaches anywhere near real-time. Legacy architectures layer “best of breed” components for firewall, intrusion
As organizations adopt Cloud technologies and capabilities, it’s important to discuss how secure (or insecure!) Cloud really is. Security concerns with respect to Cloud computing are similar to those of a traditional
A holistic “life cycle” perspective is to prioritize security risk levels of security for the proper governance and management of all security. The future is already here — It’s just not evenly
Dependencies on information technology began logically enough. In a technology-driven and dependent marketplace, enterprises seek to leverage information technology to improve their market position. Industries adopted COBOL-based software and mainframe computers for
In September of 2017, Equifax announced that extremely sensitive data, including social security numbers and driver’s license information, had been exfiltrated by hackers via the Apache Struts framework used to develop the
Device Atlas, the world’s most authoritative source on device data, states that there were 2.6 billion smartphones and over 4 billion mobile phone users in the world in 2016. This number is
In my many years of working in cybersecurity, I’ve found the only thing that can truly secure an organization is collaboration. The most important part of “people, process, technology” is the people.
Are you a small to medium size business owner (SMB)? Are you actively implementing cybersecurity best practices for your SMB? Many SMBs have a mindset that cyber-attacks won’t reign down on them. The “I…
