Expert analysis
Overcoming the barriers to ISO 27001 adoption for success on G-Cloud
A recent attention grabbing headline that was just too controversial to ignore: “Sloppy SaaS firms lose out on G-Cloud deals, research suggests”. In the article, …
Why are hackers increasingly targeting the healthcare industry?
Cyber-attacks in the healthcare environment are on the rise, with recent research suggesting that critical healthcare systems could be vulnerable to attack. In general, the …
Microsoft Wallet enters the mobile payments fray: Is the industry secure?
The launch of Microsoft Wallet for Windows 10 users this week marks the latest entry from a major OEM into an increasingly booming mobile payments market. The new offering is …
Where does your cloud data live? 3 questions to ask
There’s a common thread behind every security pro’s cloud-related fears: control. Whether your company’s infrastructure revolves around a cloud-centric strategy or regulates …
The hunting approach to defeating cyber attacks
Security used to be all about building walls around our organizations and trying to immediately stop all attacks. But today’s adversaries are sophisticated, persistent, and …
Healthcare needs a data centric security approach
With increasing attacks on PHI data, coupled with more stringent data security requirements and regular audits, organizations should act now – before it’s too late. A recent …
How to assess your stakeholder matrix as part of a cloud security strategy
Running your organization in the cloud has many benefits: cost savings, efficiency gains, and the flexibility to scale, to name a few, along with some security drawbacks. This …
Rethink network security outside the box
Preventing bad guys from compromising an organization has historically been executed based on a basic concept: establish a perimeter, and control who and what goes in and out. …
How do you win the web security game when the rules keep changing?
Successfully protecting against web-based attacks is like trying to win a game that keeps changing its rules, only nobody tells you what the new rules are. With a rapidly …
Security implications of online voting
With essentially everything moving online, it would seem to be the natural progression that voting online or on your mobile device would be the next thing to happen. Not only …
The IoT blame game
The first Friday the thirteenth of any year is officially “Blame Someone Else Day.” What a delightful thought – that all the failures, inconsistencies, and …
How to consolidate your sensitive data footprint
Data is the driving force behind every organization, whether an organization is primarily a retailer, a manufacturer, healthcare provider or a bank, it will possess some if …