Sue Poremba

5 Types of DDoS Attacks to Defend Against in 2016 In his final budget proposal, President Obama is asking for an increase in spending on cybersecurity — $19 billion, which is $5 billion more than last year. The requested increase is a response to the rise in cybersecurity threats being made against government agencies. The […]

6 Cyber Secrets Setting You Up for Betrayal We talk a lot about the monetary losses of a network data breach, but where do mobile breaches fit into the equation? How much damage is inflicted by our mobile devices? Quite a bit, according to new research from Lookout and Ponemon Institute. Mobile devices are an […]

5 Security Challenges Facing State and Local Governments in 2016 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently released its annual cybersecurity report. Even though we know that the threats are becoming more sophisticated and the bad guys are doing a good job at staying one step ahead of us, the report found that our cybersecurity problems are […]

5 Security Challenges Facing State and Local Governments in 2016 By now I’m sure you’ve heard about the FBI’s battle with Apple. In a nutshell, the government is asking Apple to create software that will allow law enforcement to crack the encryption on the phone of the San Bernardino shooter. As eWeek stated: Unfortunately, the […]

The Human Factor: 5 Security Blunders People Keep Making Just in time for tax season comes word of all kinds of security breakdowns within important tax-related organizations. For example, there was the announcement from the IRS that it was hacked (again). As CIO explained it: In its review, the IRS identified unauthorized attempts involving about […]

Health Care Data Breaches: 5 Tips for Protecting Sensitive Information Often when we talk about cybercrime and cybercriminals, we discuss how much money is being made by the bad guys or how valuable your information is on the black market. But have we thought much about the real economics behind cybercrime? Researchers at Palo Alto […]

The Human Factor: 5 Security Blunders People Keep Making Recently, I wrote about cloud security and research by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) that found that IT professionals are becoming more comfortable with cloud security, but that the one concern that still looms over cloud security – and all security, for that matter – is […]

A New Security Approach to Combat Today’s Threats HSBC UK’s online banking system was hit with a DDoS attack at the end of January. As of the writing of this blog post, officials didn’t know who was responsible or the reasons behind the attack. The bank’s mobile app was not technically hit by the DDoS […]

The Human Factor: 5 Security Blunders People Keep Making If it seems like businesses are fighting a losing battle against malware and other security threats, it could be because they are. A new study conducted by ThreatTrack Security found that security professionals are losing ground in the battle against cybercriminals and other adversaries compared with […]

Security 2016: What to Expect in the New Year Today is National Data Privacy Day. I swear, we have days for just about everything – January 28 is also National Kazoo Day and National Blueberry Pancake Day – but a day to focus on data privacy makes a lot of sense. There are a lot […]

Health Care Data Breaches: 5 Tips for Protecting Sensitive Information App hardening isn’t a new concept. However, if you are unfamiliar with the term, Security Intelligence described it this way: Hardening is a key step at the end of any secure software development life cycle process, which ensures that the app is running as designed […]

2016 Security Trends: What’s Next for Data Breaches? I’ve been writing about IT security for nearly a decade. I’ve seen the progression of cybersecurity problems and cybersecurity solutions. I remember the number of professionals I spoke with who shrugged off the need for security and the businesses who told me point blank that they’d never […]