Digital transformation impacts the way that organizations deal with cybersecurity risk, says Tim Wilkinson of Avast Business, who provides advice how to place security at the center of the transformation.
Many organizations struggle to understand what cloud assets they actually have. Sam Curcuruto of Expanse explains the role cloud governance plays in gaining better clarity and control.
Britain's biggest businesses continue to inappropriately expose servers and services to the internet, putting the organizations and data at risk, according to a study by Rapid7. Tod Beardsley describes the findings, including a widespread lack of phishing defenses as well as cloud misconfigurations.
Given today's increasing IT complexity and scale, it's become imperative to break down the barriers between Security and IT groups and align them including their tools, processes, and skills around a common goal: delivering a fast and secure user experience while enabling business agility.
For CIOs and CISOs who...
A security researcher found an unsecured database belonging to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China that contained 8.4 TB of email metadata. While it's not clear if anyone accessed the data, an attacker could have seen all email being sent or received by a specific person.
Migrating from on-premises data security to the cloud and then embedding security in the application development process are common challenges for enterprises. Dan Fitzgerald, a CISO at the consultancy McKinsey & Co., shares insights on how to make these transitions.
Newly discovered microarchitectural data sampling flaws in Intel processors - collectively dubbed "ZombieLoad" - could be exploited to steal private data from PCs and servers, including shared cloud environments. Intel, Microsoft, Apple and others have begun to ship patches designed to help mitigate the problems.
While cloud computing offers many advantages, a major disadvantage has been security, because data physically resides with the cloud service provider (CSP) and out of the direct control of the owner of the data. For enterprises that elect to use encryption to protect their data, securing their encryption keys is of...
Attackers exploiting a buffer overflow in WhatsApp's signaling software to automatically infect devices with malware - without users even having to answer their phone - and then alter call logs to hide attack traces is "a bit of a nightmare scenario," says cybersecurity expert Alan Woodward.
Stories, practical experiences, anecdotes and a bit of humor about creating and managing cloud security programs and the journey to devsecops. This will be an interactive session.
The session will cover:
Key components of cloud security programs and the basics of devsecops
Real world challenges and practical...
With IT environments more complex and dynamic than ever, micro-segmentation is the clear choice for isolating communication flows and hardening your security posture. The right provider should help you accurately visualise and map all of your application flows and dependencies and then enable micro-segmentation...
Complex configurations don't mix well with rapidly spun-up components, and when your company uses multiple cloud providers to host your critical assets, the odds of a major security event get that much higher.
So how do you close visibility gaps and integrate conflicting datasets from different providers, and how do...
As banking firms evolve their business models to fight obsoletion and stay competitive in a rapidly changing space - digital transformation initiatives are on everyone's priority list. According to Forrester (source: The Path To Digital Transformation In High Speed Financial Services, December 2016) financial services...
With 96% of businesses now relying on cloud computing,
including 81% that use multiple cloud environments*, cloud
adoption is no longer a trend but the new normal.
This requires enterprises to place more emphasis on a critical
issue related to cloud computing and storage: how to ensure the
integrity and...
How far does an organization's risk surface extend, and who are the custodians of all that data? A new research report aims to answer those questions. In a joint interview, Kelly White, of RiskRecon and Wade Baker of the Cyentia Institute offer an analysis.
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