Sue Poremba

Data-Centric Approach Starves Data-Hungry Cybercriminals Black Friday and Cyber Monday are here. Considering the August-like temperatures we’ve had in the Mid-Atlantic region recently, it’s hard to believe we’re moving into the holiday shopping season, so I can’t blame you if the season has snuck up on you, too. Of course, cybersecurity best practices should always […]

Ransomware: The Rising Face of Cybercrime One of the most popular cybersecurity predictions for 2016 was the rise in ransomware attacks. In the spring, I reported how accurate that ransomware prediction appeared to be after first quarter findings. Now as the year winds down, we have a much better idea of how damaging ransomware has […]

5 Ways CFOs Can Implement an Effective Cybersecurity Strategy This spring and summer, it seemed like all we talked about was ransomware. In September and October, we wondered if the elections would fall victim to a cyberattack. Now as we approach Thanksgiving and the holiday season, DDoS attacks are front and center, just in time […]

5 Ways CFOs Can Implement an Effective Cybersecurity Strategy Now that most of the election dust has settled, I think it is safe to say that this was the most cybersecurity-aware election season that we’ve ever witnessed. Clearly, not all of it was good cybersecurity awareness, as most of the talk was about hacked emails […]

8 Tips for Ensuring Employee Security Compliance There’s no question that there is a need for solid cybersecurity awareness training. Yet, how effective is it, really? A couple of studies I’ve seen recently make it seem like you can provide all of the cybersecurity education you want, but it won’t make any difference if your […]

Ransomware: The Rising Face of Cybercrime In late October, IoT security – or lack thereof – really came to the forefront after devices infected with the Mirai botnet took down DNS provider Dyn with a massive DDoS attack. In November, with fears that our entire election could be at risk from a cyber threat, the […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 Take a look at some of these numbers from Symantec’s 2016 Internet Security Threat Report. In 2015, Symantec discovered more than 400 million new pieces of malware, an increase of 36 percent over 2014. On average, there was one new zero-day vulnerability found each week. Approximately a half […]

5 Essential Incident Response Checklists Halloween is a time for scary stories. IT security news presents a good number of scary stories throughout the year, but I thought I’d share a few of the scariest stories that you may not know about, including zombie stories. According to Appthority, about a quarter of all devices have […]

8 Tips for Ensuring Employee Security Compliance Over the weekend, I was talking to a group of young cybersecurity professionals about the recent DDoS attacks in specific, and about cybersecurity in general. One of the things that came up in our conversation was the way people outside of the cybersecurity world bring up a topic […]

5 DDoS Myths Debunked The recent DDoS attacks have shone a bright spotlight on the security problems within the Internet of Things. The attacks are also a reminder that cloud security is still a work in progress. That’s not to say that the cloud isn’t secure; instead, the problem may be the way we think […]

5 DDoS Myths Debunked On Thursday, I wrote a post about the Mirai IoT malware infecting IoT devices, turning them into botnets that create DDoS attacks. I knew that this was going to become a serious problem but at that moment, it hadn’t become a mainstream issue. That certainly changed quickly, didn’t it? On Friday, […]

5 DDoS Myths Debunked The Internet of Things (IoT) is under attack, and really, it was only a matter of time. Many of the devices that make up IoT are remarkably unsecure, and in January, ZDNet predicted that a major IoT security breach was going to happen within two years, quoting James Lyne, global head […]