Sue Poremba

Reduce Data Breach Damage by Improving Detection and Response For a long time, security was one of the top reasons – if not the number one reason – why businesses shied away from using cloud computing. That appears to be changing. According to a new study from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), nearly 65 percent […]

Study Finds More Companies Have Data Breach Response Plan, But Still Lack Crucial Steps Without skilled professionals running the operations, how effective are our security systems? More importantly, how mature are these security systems? According to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s newly released study, State of Security Operations Report 2016, companies are failing when it comes to […]

What Risks Are Hiding In Your Data? Seven Scary Stories Users of eBay may be the latest victims of a spearphishing campaign, thanks to an XSS security vulnerability. The good news is that eBay has patched the vulnerability. The bad news is that it is an example that spearphishing is a problem that’s not going […]

What Does 2016 Hold for the Evolving Security Landscape? In his article for Security Week, Rafal Los asked an interesting question: Do you have a security policy for the Internet of Things (IoT) gadgets in your office? We’re familiar with BYOD policies for our smartphones, tablets and laptops. Wouldn’t BYOD security policy cover IoT devices, […]

2016 Security Trends: What’s Next for Data Breaches? If you visited a social media site today, chances are very good that you know about David Bowie’s death. Although I personally got the news when my husband woke me at 6 a.m. to tell me, the first 50 or so updates in my Facebook provided a […]

2016 Security Trends: What’s Next for Data Breaches? In recent hearings on Capitol Hill, Congress pushed the Small Business Administration (SBA) for its cybersecurity failings. Lawmakers claim that SBA isn’t following recommendations made by the Government Accountability Office to put more emphasis on cybersecurity. As the House Small Business Committee reported: Until SBA fully implements […]

Typically, holidays are a hot time for a serious cyberattack because offices are quiet and no one is around to monitor things. At the end of this year, however, my email account was not flooded with notifications with breaking security stories. That’s not to say nothing was reported. A few hours after I shut off […]

Security 2016: What to Expect in the New Year Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing and the downloading of illegal content might be synonymous with Napster, appearing to be a technology that is ancient history. But it is still used regularly (and some of it illegally when using copyrighted materials), now with even more security threats. BitSight […]

8 Important People to Connect with During a Major IT Incident There was a very good chance your organization suffered a security breach this past year. According to new research by Spiceworks, 80 percent of organizations experienced a security incident in 2015. The biggest problem, according to the research, is the end user: IT pros […]

Protecting Corporate Identities Through Password Management When it comes to practicing good password security, it appears that employees still don’t get it. A recent study from Ping Identity found that employees aren’t doing a very good job with password security basics. Okay, to give them credit, they are following the “rules” of creating a hard-to-guess […]

Reduce Data Breach Damage by Improving Detection and Response Chances are very good that in 2016, your company will adopt cloud computing or will use it more than it did in the past. IDG’s 2015 Cloud Computing Study predicts that 72 percent of companies will have at least one cloud-based application, 48 percent of companies […]

The number of Fortune 500 companies successfully using Big Data analytics as a way to improve business intelligence and efficiency is not very high. According to a Forbes article, it’s anticipated that the number could be as low as 15 percent. Among SMBs, that percentage is likely even lower. One of the reasons so few […]