Sue Poremba

Top 5 Places Your Enterprise Data Is at Risk During the very first session I attended at Enfuse 2016 — Public Information Gathering and Social Engineering: Low Tech, High Reward, presented by Ken Pyle, partner with DFDR Consulting – I was blown away by how easy it is to gather personal information and gain access […]

Top 5 Places Your Enterprise Data Is at Risk Part Two of a Conversation with Patrick Dennis, CEO of Guidance Software Last week, I had the chance to sit down with Patrick Dennis, CEO of Guidance Software, during Enfuse Conference 2016. Earlier this week, I discussed Dennis’s thoughts about the jurisdiction of cybersecurity events. Today, […]

Study Pinpoints IT Security’s Top Data Security Concerns Part One of a Conversation with Patrick Dennis, CEO of Guidance Software Last week, I had the chance to sit down with Patrick Dennis, CEO of Guidance Software, during Enfuse Conference 2017. The bulk of our conversation revolved around a topic that Dennis considers very important yet […]

Study Pinpoints IT Security’s Top Data Security Concerns I suspect that this will surprise no one but a year after the government revealed the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) suffered a massive breach with millions of records compromised (including yours truly), federal agencies continue to struggle with cybersecurity. According to a new study from (ISC)² […]

5 Email Campaigns Evading In-Market Security Solutions Last month I talked about cybercrime as big business and how crime rings take advantage of point of sale (PoS) technology to collect and sell the data they gather. I’d like to build on that conversation, using a new study from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) that takes an […]

5 Security Steps to Protect Users from Ransomware It seems like I’ve been talking a lot about ransomware recently. It also seems like ransomware is mentioned in every other security article I read. There’s a good reason for this: Ransomware is the biggest threat to enterprise security today, according to Kaspersky Lab. In its Threat […]

Late last year, Gemalto released a report that found that the health care industry leads the way in data breaches. As Healthcare IT News reported then: The key finding is perhaps that the healthcare industry had 34 percent of its total records breached, amounting to 84 million data records compromised, the highest rate of any […]

Study Pinpoints IT Security’s Top Data Security Concerns An argument gets played out on social media and in conversations at the local pub, and frankly, you can have these arguments over and over again, but you aren’t going to change anyone’s mind: You are either an iOS person or you are an Android person, and […]

Drones are expected to have a huge effect on industries across the board in the coming decade. So much so that business owners like Chuck Williams, owner of Float Avionics, believe that drones able to move autonomously as well as digitize and send that information to the relevant people will be as important to businesses […]

Top 5 Places Your Enterprise Data Is at Risk Since so much security news is bad or negative, I thought I’d go for a change of pace and write about something a little more positive today. According to new research from SolarWinds, we’re seeing serious improvement in organizational approaches to security preparedness and effectiveness. In […]

What We Need to Know Now: Drones and Security Drones and security have an interesting relationship. Drones can be used to assist in physical security, such as providing aerial video footage, and in national security efforts. But drones have been a threat to security, as well. For instance, a drone crashed into a plane at […]

5 Security Steps to Protect Users from Ransomware The increase of ransomware has been discussed in great length over the past year. In my 2016 security predictions round-up, I noted that we should expect to see substantial growth in ransomware attacks, quoting Stu Sjouwerman, founder and CEO of KnowBe4: Current estimates from the Cyber Threat […]