Insider Threat

Security is not a black and white matter: there are vast shades of grey that exist in even the most well-thought out security architectures. APTs, zero-days, exploits, vulnerabilities, IoT threats, and the ever-present threat from an organization’s own users, all pose significant amounts of risk to your assets and the invaluable data stored on them. Not that many years ago, security was seemingly much easier – park a stateful...

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...

The shift to the cloud has significantly increased the risks to data security, although the cloud itself is not necessarily to blame. As has been demonstrated, many cloud purchases are made outside the control or oversight of IT, creating a dangerous Shadow IT environment that, when left unmanaged, places corporate data at risk. At the same time, organizations have struggled to adapt their security technologies, with legacy security tools...

There are strong indications that the price tag associated with healthcare data breaches is about to go up significantly. While 90% of healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach in the past two years, there's been a dramatic shift in litigation.

The data on employee endpoints—like laptops, mobile phones, and tablets—is at risk. While theft due to malware is a perennial risk, endpoint data is also at risk of theft through email, cloud storage, and device theft.