Topic: Securing Your Data

From the Summer 2015 Issue

Get Tested: Penetration Testing as an Integral Part of Your Company’s Cybersecurity Plan

Author(s):

Chris Castaldo, Senior Director of Information Security, 2U

Cybersecurity is now more than ever a business requirement in every industry.  The 2015 Verizon Data Breach Report estimates 700 million compromised records in all of 2014.1  Worse yet, that number only represents known/reported breaches. A survey of attendees at the 2008 RSA Conference indicated that 89% of breaches they were aware of went unreported.2 If … Read more

From the Summer 2015 Issue

Don’t Become Extinct: The Evolution of Information Security, Part Two

Author(s):

Will Janssen, Business Development Director, Signals Defense

In Part One of this series, the idea of the three waves of security was introduced, with the Physical Security 1st Wave having established the principles and ideas of security used in the next two Waves. The 2nd Wave is “Wired” IT Security, which is maturing with standards, technologies, and operational approaches and is being … Read more