People are always the weakest link in security, but the stakes are higher now because of the massive amounts of sensitive information accessible online and the determination of cyberattackers. The standard username/password approach is no longer enough.
Because of this, government agencies are starting to realize...
Given the robust IT infrastructure of most financial institutions, it's easy to conclude that on-site deployment of a governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution is the way to go. But there are compelling reasons to go with an integrated, cloud-based solution. Efficiency, flexibility and security are just three of...
As the cybersecurity threat landscape evolved over the past two decades, firewalls grew increasingly ineffective at blocking attackers from accessing network data. Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) aim to fill those gaps, but do they really provide an all-encompassing solution for network security?
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The conversation around the cloud is not something new to the industry, with the topic showing up everywhere from IT back offices to Fortune 500 C-Suites. Despite cloud's ubiquity, there is still a lot to understand, regardless of your expertise level; there is not just one single cloud - and, for that matter, not all...
On May 25, 2018, all organizations that do business with citizens from the European Union will be subject to the enforcement of a new set of laws that help protect their sensitive personal identification information. Called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the legislation replaces a two-decade-old EU...
The front lines for conflict in the digital age now lay at the network gateway. Unfortunately, on today's virtual battlefield, the enemy is constantly advancing. While no approach is going to guarantee security across networks and devices, taking a strategic approach to IT defense not unlike those taken in real-world...
Following the alert over Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office is warning that failures to patch today could be punished with fines under GDPR once enforcement of the data protection law begins later this year.
Security vendor products are held to a higher standard of security. They must help their customers solve complex security problems, as well as have the most stringent security measures in place throughout the software development lifecycle. To meet those standards, many security vendors are turning to more innovative...
Bug bounties are fundamentally changing the way financial service organizations approach the security of the Internet, moving from the realm of novelty towards becoming best practice.
This report presents how the financial services industry is actively looking to bug bounty programs to augment their existing...
In the Face of Advanced Threats, is Your Organization's Security Posture Reactive or Proactive?
Today's most advanced threat actors - whether external or internal - are stealthier than ever and able to hide within one's systems for days, weeks or even months as they gather intel and prepare to strike. Sixty-one...
"Machines" as we know them are going through an identity crisis. Our increased dependence on them is so profound that even the definition of machine is undergoing radical change. The number and type of physical devices on enterprise networks has been rising rapidly, but this is outstripped by the number of...
In an era where users are working simultaneously across mobile,
social and cloud applications and platforms, organizations need
to deploy identity and access management solutions that can scale
and adapt quickly. That's where IDaaS comes in. It simplifies
that onboard experience for the employee and gives...
There is a lot of frightening rhetoric coming out of the IT-security industry regarding the GDPR data protection reform adopted by the European Parliament and going into effect on May 25th, 2018. These issues of data privacy and security seem especially thorny in today's virtualized and cloud environments where...
Our increased dependence on machines is so profound that even the definition of machine is undergoing radical change. The number and type of physical devices on enterprise networks has been rising rapidly, but this is outstripped by the number of applications and services they host.
At the same time, cloud adoption...
Identity and Access Management (IAM) programs are becoming increasingly essential to securing critical systems and data; last year, companies spent $7 billion on IAM, most on protecting user credentials, but almost nothing protecting keys and certificates, the credentials that identify and authorize machine-to-machine...
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