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Why governments need to take the lead in cybersecurity

Time and time again we hear people lament about the impact cybercrime has on our businesses, our individual lives, the economy, and on society. Report after report show the …

Evading cyber legislation: Jurisprudence cloaking is the future of cyber warfare

When is an IP address not actually the person, country of origin or device you thought? From Klingons, to Harry Potter, to Xbox Halo’s Master Chief, the world has dreamt up …

Evading cyber legislation: Jurisprudence cloaking is the future of cyber warfare

When is an IP address not actually the person, country of origin or device you thought? From Klingons, to Harry Potter, to Xbox Halo’s Master Chief, the world has dreamt up …

The transformative technology security nightmare

They say that every silver lining comes with a cloud attached and that’s certainly true of today’s transformative technologies. CEOs and the board rightly see BYOD, Cloud and …

Four ways organizations can prevent PII from becoming black market public record

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is worth 10 times more than credit card information on the black market, making it imperative to have strong policies and safeguards …

Understanding a new security market: User behavior analytics

We know that tracking enterprise log data to discover suspicious activity from hackers or malicious insider threats is not a new idea. Five to 10 years ago, we saw the SIEM …

Cyber operational readiness and a complex threat landscape

Mike Walls is the Managing Director, Security Operations and Analysis at EdgeWave. In this interview he discusses keeping pace with an increasingly complex threat landscape, …

Software-Defined Perimeter enables application-specific access control

Back in the early 1990s enterprises migrated away from proprietary protocols such as DECnet, SNA, and Novell IPX to common standards such as IP. The motivation was the open …

Real-world roadblocks to implementing CISA

The recent approval of CISA (the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act) by the US Congress and Senate is paving the way for broader security collaboration. There is a rapidly …

Creating a secure network for the Internet of Things

The attitudes and perceptions around the Internet of Things (IoT) span a wide array of views from the extreme excitement of consumers and manufacturers, to the concerns …

The top 6 scariest cloud security mistakes and how to avoid them

As Halloween approaches, the only thing more frightening than a house of horrors is a security threat to your enterprise cloud system. One slip-up could not only be …

What should companies do after a wide-scale data breach?

It is not always possible to prevent such attacks, however, it is possible to make them highly unlikely to succeed. It is also possible to limit the extent of possible damage …

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