From the Winter 2024 Issue

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The Unintended Consequences of Connectivity: How a Zero Trust Approach Can Shrink the Attack Surface

Author(s):

Tina Gravel, SVP Global Channels and Alliances , Appgate

Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet and considered one of the founding fathers of the modern Internet, is renowned for many things, but perhaps none more so than his namesake law: Metcalfe’s Law. Metcalfe’s Law was initially presented in 1980 to describe the intrinsic value of a telecommunications network and has since been popularized as ‘The … Read more

From the Fall 2021 Issue

Trade-Offs of Convenience: Social Logins, Password Managers and Other Single Points of Failure in User Authentication

Author(s):

Tina Gravel, SVP Global Channels and Alliances , Appgate

Trade Offs of Convenience

As every experienced CSO understands all too well, security is a continuous exercise in evaluating and balancing a nexus of trade-offs between risk, cost, and user experience. This calculation becomes especially tricky when it comes to weighing the trade-offs between how to properly authenticate a user and do so without degrading their experience. If you … Read more

From the Summer 2021 Issue

Zero Trust: Is It All It’s Cracked Up To Be Or Is It Hype? Or A Bit of Both?

Author(s):

Tina Gravel, SVP Global Channels and Alliances , Appgate

Zero Trust

Few enterprise security technologies have garnered as much attention and hype as Zero Trust over the past decade. Yet, despite all the buzz, there remains a great deal of confusion and uncertainty in the market – is Zero Trust a framework, a reference architecture, or an actual technology? Does the Zero Trust model match the … Read more