Sue Poremba

IT departments are looking for any way possible to gain more control over the devices that are connected to the corporate network. One way that is growing in popularity is the enterprise app store. Gartner predicts that 25 percent of businesses will have an enterprise app store up and running by 2017. “Enterprise app stores […]

Data-Centric Approach Starves Data-Hungry Cybercriminals The FBI advised against paying the ransom when it was hit with a ransomware attack. Cybercriminals don’t like that advice, so we’re seeing a new tactic with ransomware: Cybercriminals are combining ransomware attacks with DDoS attacks. According to Invincea’s blog post: We recently found a ransomware variant that not only […]

Enterprise Mobility Management Myth Busters: Users vs. IT Reality A serious struggle is going on to protect mobile devices from malware, according to a number of recent reports. The Nokia Threat Intelligence Report for the first half of 2016 found a significant surge in mobile malware infections during the first six months of 2016 when […]

Were you one of the millions of long-time Dropbox users who received an email that warned you’d be prompted to update your password on your next login – that is, if you haven’t done so since 2012? I got it over the weekend and was annoyed by the lack of details in the note itself. […]

I typed “ransomware news” into Google today, and found these three items: Ransomware called Fantom poses as a critical Windows update Ransomware called Nullbyte pretends to be a Pokemon Go application Fake ransomware called Fairware targets open-source Redis  That’s the result of one Google search, all reports less than 48 hours old. Clearly, we are […]

Top 6 Trends that Impact Your Security Posture According to a new survey, it really doesn’t matter how strong you make your passwords or where you store them: Hackers are going to figure them out. Thycotic surveyed attendees at this year’s Black Hat conference and found that 75 percent of those responding (the vast majority […]

Digital disruption is using technology to transform everything about the way businesses are run and the way they interact with customers. As the experts at Epicor Software have pointed out, digital disruption isn’t so much an IT project as the future of business, and this requires widespread collaboration across all units. As Ajay Khanna, VP […]

Data is the driving force for the way we work, play, and interact with each other, so much so that it has led one writer to call this age of digital disruption and innovation our era’s version of the Industrial Revolution, adding that we are living in what may be the “most transformable” period in […]

Cyber Crime Report Finds Old Breaches Led to New Breaches In the spring, I reached out to the last five presidential campaigns standing to ask why cybersecurity wasn’t a top priority in any speeches or policies. I got no response. I wasn’t too surprised by that, considering there hadn’t been any big cybersecurity news – […]

9 Rules for Digital Transformation in the Enterprise In 2005, cybercrime cost the average company $24,000. In 2015, the average cost jumped to $1.5 million. Certainly some of that is due to inflation – everything costs more today – but the skyrocketing costs are also in line with the overall increase in cybercrime. According to […]

5 Security Steps to Protect Users from Ransomware What would you do if nearly a third of your employees were making mistakes that could cause serious harm to the company? According to findings by Duo Security, that’s exactly what is happening with employees and phishing attacks. About 31 percent of employees were clicking on phishing […]

I’m often asked to provide an example of an insider threat. I think it is because no one likes to believe that someone inside would be so cruel as to purposely do harm to a business, to customers and to fellow employees. Mistakes made by an insider that result in compromised data are certainly bad, […]