Sue Poremba

Imagine if doctors, nurses, and health care researchers had the ability to interrogate both the healthy and diseased states of a patient’s biology and then use that data to uncover a network of causal relationships between historical, molecular, and other data types to approach treatment or develop the right type of drugs. BERG Health is […]

Data-Centric Approach Starves Data-Hungry Cybercriminals Will 2017 be the year that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning become an important front-line tool for cybersecurity? A number of security professionals I’ve heard from think so. When I was looking for security predictions, Paul Shomo, technical manager Strategic Partnerships with Guidance Software, sent this along to me: […]

10 Ways to Improve Your Social Media Security Policy and Posture Lines between business and personal lives have been blurring for a very long time. It’s something that we discuss often when it comes to BYOD, but it also spills into our online-access identities. This, a new study from Gemalto found, is causing security headaches […]

8 Tips for Ensuring Employee Security Compliance You’ve probably heard this already, but the Yahoo breach is back in the news, and not in a good way. The original breach involved 500 million users. Now comes news of a separate breach that involved more than a billion accounts. This breach happened in August 2013. Let […]

Shadow IT is the use of assets that don’t fall under the management of the IT department, and, says Phil Richards, CSO of LANDESK, it can be a huge security problem, especially for those companies that don’t have a strong IT department to monitor application and device use, or when policies are too restrictive to […]

8 Tips for Ensuring Employee Security Compliance For security to work most efficiently in any organization, everybody has to be on board. I don’t mean they have to simply support the idea of good security practices, rather, they must actually have awareness of the greatest threats and risks to the organization, recognize what security procedures […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 There may be a lot of question marks heading into the first year of Donald Trump’s administration, but we do know one thing for sure. He has been given a blue print for cybersecurity, thanks to the recently released report from the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. President […]

5 Ways CFOs Can Implement an Effective Cybersecurity Strategy I remember many years ago, when I first began writing about security, a cybersecurity expert went off topic in a conversation we were having about cloud security to discuss what he felt was a rarely discussed issue – the insider threat. He told me that while […]

Ransomware: The Rising Face of Cybercrime We know that businesses of all sizes can be victims of a cyberattack, but it seems like there has been a flurry of hacks on large organizations. Take this eSecurity Planet article, for example. It covered not just one cybersecurity incident, but multiple incidents that happened in a short […]

Ransomware: The Rising Face of Cybercrime I was doing some research on IoT and DDoS attacks. As part of that research, I conducted an email interview with Carl Herberger, VP of Security Solutions at Radware. Rather than talk about DDoS attacks, Herberger told me about ransom denial of service (RDoS) attacks, a term I was […]

8 Tips for Ensuring Employee Security Compliance The Mirai botnet put Internet of Things (IoT) security – or the lack thereof – directly into the spotlight. It’s an issue that I foresee as a top 2017 cybersecurity prediction. We are already starting to see more news coming out about the IoT’s security concerns, such as […]

8 Tips for Ensuring Employee Security Compliance  At this time of the year, I see a lot of warnings heading out to consumers about how to protect their information and their privacy. I get it. This is prime time for cybercriminals looking to scam potential victims who are often rushed and looking for the best […]