Cybersecurity readiness: Widening gulf between perception and reality
Attackers have become more proficient at taking advantage of gaps in security to evade detection and conceal malicious activity, according to Cisco. Defenders, namely, …
How to prepare if you’re selected for an OCR audit
The forthcoming Office of Civil Rights (OCR) audits for HIPAA compliance have seen some delays this fall – but that doesn’t mean covered organizations can delay …
Five key security, identity and access management trends
CA Technologies announced five key trends for security and identity and access management (IAM) that will impact organizations and security professionals in 2015 as they …
Reactions to David Cameron’s plan to ban end-to-end encryption
On Tuesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced his plan to introduce new surveillance powers in the UK, and ban applications that use end-to-end encryption. Here …
Cost of breach vs. cost of deployment
In security terms, 2014 read like a who’s who of data breaches. Huge, global companies like Target, eBay and Coca-Cola have succumbed to data loss. Public services like …
Don’t look back in anger
At the end of the 2014, as at the end of many years before it, our mailboxes were filled with various vendors’ security predictions for 2015. We saw them also in …
Identity management trends in 2015
A new year is always an excellent time to look ahead. So, there’s not much of a better time than now to look at some of the identity management trends expected for the …
Do we need regular IT security fire drills?
IT security “fire drills’, supported by executive management and the risk committee should be conducted regularly in organizations, in order to understand the …
Security of data in the cloud now an executive-level concern
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) surveyed more than 200 IT and security professionals, and nearly 72 percent admitted that they did not know the number of shadow IT apps …
The coming shift in security
Vendors continue to trumpet new platforms as the best way to improve enterprise-level security. Flashy spinning visualizations, added scalability and the meaningless …
The one compliance lesson you need to learn
We are living in a data driven society with globalizing economies, data transfer, and ubiquitous access to everything from everywhere. At the same time, we have seen an influx …
5 working days left until the deadline for compliance with PCI DSS 3.0 kicks in
Maintaining credit and debit card information on behalf of financial services clients demands the highest levels of security and customer confidence, and adhering to standards …