Sue Poremba

Cybersecurity spending is expected to reach $1 trillion over the next five years, according to the most recent Cybersecurity Ventures Cybersecurity Market Report. This has raised the demand for security vendors, opening the door for new startup companies and growth for well-known firms. However, just as there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to security […]

The CIA breach/Wikileaks dump is yet another example of the government’s lackluster approach to security. After all, the CIA is not the first government agency to suffer a breach. It needs to get in line behind the State Department, the Office of Personnel Management, the IRS, and so on. So the results of a Tripwire […]

The late-night talk show hosts did what they do best – poked fun at the latest news, in this particular case, the Wikileaks dump of CIA documents. Stephen Colbert lamented that he has multiple Samsung television sets in his home, the brand mentioned as a spying tool, and that the CIA must now have hours […]

Did the hack of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails and their subsequent publication on Wikileaks change the trajectory of the 2016 presidential election? We’ll probably never have a definitive answer on that, but, according to Christy Wyatt, CEO of Dtex, and Robby Mook, former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, the hack showed the real-life consequences […]

Even though it has been months since the news of the massive Yahoo breach came out, the fallout continues, showing that a data breach is not an isolated incident. The effects can linger and cause damage for a long time. Last week, more details about the breach were revealed, as eWeek reported: Yahoo has been […]

There is a huge disconnect between actual cybersecurity engagement and perception of cybersecurity engagement. A couple of weeks ago, I pointed out how your customers overestimate your cybersecurity protections and are willing to trust you are keeping their sensitive information secure (and we customers think that we know a lot more about security than we […]

Just as the security landscape is ever changing, so are the skills that security professionals need to keep up. In a study conducted by Sungard Availability Services, IT decision makers revealed the security skills that are lacking in many organizations, including: • Experience developing security infrastructure and setting up security policy management, monitoring and alerting […]

First there was Heartbleed. Now there is Cloudbleed, which, as Nathan Wenzler, chief security strategist at AsTech, told me in an email comment, has the potential to be much more devastating, despite being a different sort of problem. Cloudbleed is a bug discovered in Cloudflare, and it exposed customer data of its many clients. As […]

5 Common Failures Companies Make Regarding Data Breaches During one of the (many) conversations I had last week about security, the topic of credit card security came up. A family member had lamented to me about the number of times her credit cards had been re-issued because they may have been compromised in a breach. […]

On paper, those interested in a career in cybersecurity should have no problems finding a job or advancing up the ladder. According to various reports, approximately a million job openings in the cybersecurity field are open, and that number is only expected to increase. What’s behind this gap between job availability and people to fill […]

I sat in on a keynote talk called “The Seven Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques, and What’s Coming Next,” while at RSA. Not surprisingly, the talk focused heavily on ransomware and the Internet of Things – two topics that got a lot of attention at the conference this year. Other attack techniques were mentioned, as […]

I had the chance to meet representatives from Blumberg Capital, a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm, during my time at RSA. I admit, not exactly the type of company I expected to interact with at RSA – most of my time is spent speaking with security analysts with various security companies – but during […]