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Shadow IT is a huge and growing problem. Organizations must find the right balance of policy, processes and supporting technologies in order to regain visibility into the endpoint and the cloud where data is living in the ‘Shadow,’ all without becoming overtly restrictive and re-enforcing the negative-yet-well-meaning behavior that led to the growth of Shadow IT in the first place! IT Business Edge polled a series of security leads...

Cisco recently unveiled its sixth annual Global Cloud Index (2015-2020), a report analyzing and projecting cloud traffic. The report projects that cloud traffic will nearly quadruple by 2020 as consumers and organizations alike migrate to cloud architecture in order to scale quickly and efficiently. Mirroring growth alongside the cloud is the expected increased use of mobile devices as the primary endpoint device for work, as well as a rise...

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...

It has been estimated that 90% of organizations will suffer at least one security incident this year. There is no question that organizations are suffering more data security incidents than ever before and that more of these incidents are translating into data breaches than ever before. While prevention is always important, detection and response are just as important. Research indicates it can take an average of 256 days to...

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,...