Sue Poremba

A study conducted by KPMG last fall found that a growing number of consumers are leery of breaches and the loss of data privacy. As Forbes stated: More than a quarter (27%) of the 1,400 U.S. consumers surveyed in November by KPMG said they would only shop at a store that previously experienced a cyber […]

8 Web App Security Best Practices to Fight Off Bot Intrusions Cybersecurity has been a challenge for the federal government. There have been serious breaches in multiple government agencies, and Congress has struggled to address cybersecurity on legal terms. Even what it has been able to pass has been wrought with criticism and contention. But […]

Tackle Insider Threat by Creating a Culture of Security Awareness A couple of recent studies show that companies continue to struggle with endpoint security. This has to be a serious concern as more employees are connecting to the corporate network through multiple devices. Let’s look at these different studies. First, last week, MeriTalk and Palo […]

How to Promote a Strong Cybersecurity Culture Year-Round I detected a common theme in security over the past couple of weeks, especially as companies begin to release their third quarter or fall-based reports: Mobile malware is escalating. In its State of Mobile Malware report, Blue Coat found that ransomware has become the top mobile threat. […]

How to Promote a Strong Cybersecurity Culture Year-Round Earlier this week, I wrote about the disconnect that many IT professionals have between the poor performance of their security detection systems and the likelihood of being the target of an attack. A new study released yesterday may force them to rethink their attitude about cyberattacks. According […]

The Web’s Shadiest Neighborhoods: What You Need to Know A recent Ponemon Institute study may hold some clues as to why cybersecurity is still lacking across industries and organizations today, despite all of the high-profile breaches and threat-related news over the past couple of years. In a nutshell, too many security professionals don’t think their […]

Tackle Insider Threat by Creating a Culture of Security Awareness As Halloween approaches, you may think of scary in terms of an endless loop of slasher movies or haunted houses. I think of scary in terms of all the threats to our data, our identity and our corporate well being. And this Halloween, there are […]

How to Promote a Strong Cybersecurity Culture Year-Round On Tuesday, the Senate passed a bill that has made a lot of people unhappy. By a vote of 74-21, an unheard-of majority these days, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) was passed. As Brian Krebs described it, CISA is: … a bill designed to shield companies from […]

October 1, the deadline for credit card companies and retailers in the U.S. to make the switch to the new EMV chip standard and replace the old magnetic strip on credit cards, has come and gone. But according to Forbes, nearly 60 percent of consumers have yet to receive their new upgraded credit cards, nearly […]

Expectations vs. Reality: Five Ways to Improve Cybersecurity Awareness Earlier this month, Walmart customers were warned of debit card fraud. It is just the latest story of how credit/debit card fraud is affecting consumers, and one of the reasons why the switch was made to the new chip cards, although it is questionable just how […]

A New Security Approach to Combat Today’s Threats If it seems like there has been a lot of new malware in recent months, that’s because new strains of malware increased 64.8 percent in the first six months of 2015, as compared to the first part of 2014. That’s according to a new study released by […]

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCAM) got off to a bit of a bumpy start, with three major data breaches announced shortly after the event’s October 1 start date. Of course, those breaches happened before October, so there is hope that NCAM will make an impact and both companies and consumers will begin to take cybersecurity […]