Compliance & Risk Management

The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity established by President Obama recently released a 90-page Report on Securing and Growing the Digital Economy, a report whose explicit purpose was to make recommendations that would strengthen cybersecurity in both the public and private sectors. The report makes specific and excellent recommendations to address urgent cybersecurity challenges, including the obsolescence of the “classic concept of the security perimeter” brought about by mobile...

Mirroring the findings from the Business Perception of IT Security, which found that the Insider Threat (careless or uninformed employee actions) were the root cause of most data breaches and the top cyberthreat, the Cloud Security Survey from Netwrix found that 61% of respondents believe their own employees pose more risk to data security in the cloud than anyone else. The second annual Cloud Security Survey polled 600 IT professionals from technology, government, healthcare,...

There have been many predictions for 2017 which have touched on the impact that the EU GDPR will have on organizations around the globe, but the truth is that the GDPR is not the only change on the horizon. Federal, state, and industry regulators have all made moves in the past year indicating that 2017  will an increase in frequency and severity of compliance investigations and fines and perhaps...

Enterprise IT teams face an uphill struggle to maintain visibility into and control over corporate resources and to mitigate risks to critical business assets. The ever-growing distributed nature of corporate networks, brought about by Cloud adoption and the proliferation of mobile devices, has increased the complexity over IT situational awareness while also narrowing the field of sight, enabling cybercrime to thrive. In a new Technology Spotlight by market intelligence...

IT is becoming increasingly decentralized, with purchasing and management decisions being made at the business level. As cloud computing continues to move technology beyond IT, data is increasingly at risk. According to a new study by VMware, 69% of respondents believe IT has become increasingly decentralized over the past 3 years and 57% agree that this decentralization has resulted in the purchasing of non-secure solutions. “The IT Archipelago: Fragmentation...