In the rise of the digital age, the Internet has opened up a whole new playground for criminals to explore. Cyber crime is rampant. A recent popular example of this is Target’s data breach that left up to 40,000,000 customers’ credit and debit cards hacked. If you shopped at a physical Target store anywhere in the world between Thanksgiving and …
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) War Stories
James Bond and Jason Bourne movies are super fun to watch — because there’s a great thrill in spy novels and whodunnit stories. The article below, by Roger Grimes in CSO Online, shares some of those same thrills and spills but in the context of cyber security. Check it out, it’s a good read. Emphasis in red added by me. …
RSA: Are the Bad Guys Winning?
While the large attendance at the RSA security conference is a positive leading indicator for folks hawking security products and services, it’s a negative indicator for tens of thousands of small, medium, and large business spanning nearly every vertical market imaginable. The temperature is rising, and that affects all of us. Article by Jaikumar Vijayan in Computerworld. Emphasis in red …
Tell the Truth: Would You Lie to CEO?
A good manager does not “freak out” when an employee presents bad news…sometimes really bad news. Don’t shoot the messenger — or else the remaining messengers learn to sugarcoat, skew, or filter the information and their communicated opinions and recommendations. We’re all in this together; let’s start by assuming the good intentions of our fellow employees and then address the …
CyberSecurity Framework — It’s ALIVE!
Learn it, live it, love it. Post it, share it, like it. Article by Nicole Henderson in The WHIR. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– US Launches Voluntary Cybersecurity Framework to Protect Nation’s Critical Infrastructure The Obama administration has launched the first version of its cybersecurity framework, a voluntary program designed to help protect critical …
HP’s Take on the Status of CyberSecurity
Good news! We have new data from Hewlett-Packard on the state of the cyber union. Bad news! The new data from HP is deceptively positive. Not that HP is being deceiving — they’re most decidedly not — but rather the apparent decline in reported security vulnerabilities flies in the face of our everyday experience and is hence cause for concern. …
Fee Fi Fo Fum PHI: Protected Health Information
Just do it. No pain, no gain. Pay me now or pay me later. “We understand it can be painful to implement and enforce encryption but it’s less painful than a large breach costing millions of dollars.” Ouch, that hurts. Summary article by Susan D. Hall in FierceHealthIT. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– PHI …
IT Security Teams: Changing Stripes
For large firms with the resources to deploy a team of people focused on IT security, the members of said team are a changin’. No longer is security experience a strict requirement; indeed diversity of experience is valued — as long as an extremely high degree of specialization is part of the package. While such luxuries are rare for any …
CISOs Make Bank — Especially If CEO Is Boss
What matter most is to whom a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) reports — the CEO or “anyone other than the CEO”. Who the boss is can make up to a 36% difference. Certifications don’t really move the needle (only up to 8.7%), but advanced degrees do (up to 35%). Thankfully, the infosec gender gap in pay (5.5%) is well …
Cloud Survey Yields Good, Bad News
The good news is that the primary objections to cloud adoption are consistent and well-known — and are being overcome. The bad news is that incumbent storage vendors are not as helpful as customers would like in adopting cloud storage. AIS can help with that. Summary article by David Weldon of FierceCIO, original blog post by Joy Burd of Avere …
