Organizations today are experiencing a surge of technologies including software bots, cloud applications and cloud infrastructure with the promise of improved agility, efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness. While each of these technologies drives inherent value to an organization, they also present new risks, which left unmanaged, can lead to severe consequences […]
We start this week’s security news roundup with the ever-present human factor. In identity, we know how present this is. We’re on the ground floor, seeing how much the human attack vector impacts organizations’ overall security posture – even when there are millions of dollars invested in security systems. Kaspersky […]
It’s 1996 and Mel Gibson is refusing to pay ransom to his son’s abductor and his excuse, “I will get the best group of man hunters in this country and dedicate my life to tracking you down.” While true that life doesn’t always happen as it does in the movies, […]
With the energy of Black Hat winding down, we had to take a moment to look back on all the news from the show this week. This conference brings a heightened awareness to security perhaps even a bit more than others. There is far too much to unpack from this […]
Some of our crew is heading to Black Hat next week. If you’re attending, please stop by our booth to say hi and talk about this week’s news roundup. The feds came out swinging this week, as they nabbed the leaders of a cybercrime ring known as FIN7. This group […]
Wrapping up their sojourn in the far Northeastern Territories known as Massachusetts, David Lee and Mike Kiser corner Ian Glazer in a dark corner of Identiverse and implore him to hold forth on all things IDPro (among an amalgamation of other topics). This, it turns out, is not a difficult […]
Is cybersecurity a dead horse? While most of us are exhausted by the constant FUD in the security world, the fact remains that cybersecurity is not the default setting in most people’s brains. Personally, I’d love to see an end to “the sky is falling” stories and more of the […]
The next time you hear an identity solutions vendor tout connectivity to electronic health record (EHR) system other clinical applications, check under the hood. How this interoperability is achieved has an impact on security and operational workflow. The promise of connectivity between these two platforms is that healthcare providers can […]
Cybersecurity is too important to put off until later or simply hope for the best, but in almost every aspect of our lives, there is a gap in where we are and where we should be. Gartner’s 2018 CIO Agenda Survey came out this week, highlighting that 35 percent of […]
Healthcare providers are expressing deep concerns about the security risks associated with insiders, whether due to negligence or malice. But are these organizations doing enough to mitigate risk of breach? HIMSS and SailPoint recently paired up to conduct a study on how healthcare providers view insider threats and what they […]
