Sue Poremba

Seven Data and Information Security Mistakes Even Smart Companies Make One of the studies to be released during RSA was LogRhythm’s survey about consumer password hygiene. It isn’t good. A mere 21 percent of respondents claimed to have a unique password for each online account. I admit that I’m surprised that the number is that […]

Six Steps to Surviving Your First Breach While at RSA, I had the chance to sit down with Piero DePaoli, senior director, Global Product Marketing, Information Security with Symantec. We talked about Symantec’s 2015 Internet Security Threat Report. DePaoli’s “elevator pitch” summary of the report was broken down into three main categories: cyber attackers are […]

Eight Reasons Why Cyber Attacks Hit Retailers RSA, like all good conferences, provided the opportunity to do some real networking, hear about new ideas and approaches to old problems, and essentially get a good feel for where the industry and security issues are headed in the near future. Through my own observations, I noticed an […]

Top Barriers to Effective Vulnerability Risk Management Earlier this week, I wrote about a panel discussion at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on security. In upcoming days, I will have a lot more to share about my experiences at the conference, but today, I want to go a little deeper into that panel discussion. […]

Eight Reasons Why Cyber Attacks Hit Retailers This week, I’m attending the 2015 RSA Conference, where I’ve had the chance to mingle with security professionals and other security writers, as well as get to sit in on some interesting sessions. I was invited to attend a panel discussion hosted by Nok Nok Labs. The panel […]

Eight Reasons Why Cyber Attacks Hit Retailers When you think of retail breaches, what comes to mind? Target, probably, since that seems to be the mother of all high-profile breaches. However, it may be in the not-too-distant future when the Target breach is just a blip on the landscape. Retail has a serious security problem […]

Financial Sector Sees Cyber Incident Increase in February You probably heard that the White House computer network (the unclassified network and that’s an important detail) was hacked allegedly by representatives of the Russian government. However, as eSecurity Planet pointed out, it was a breach that we should still worry about: While the White House says […]

Six Steps to Surviving Your First Breach Has an entire year actually passed since the Heartbleed vulnerability was discovered? It seems like only yesterday that my social media news feeds were in pure panic mode. Chicken Little, the sky is falling! Or, in this case, the Internet is broken and our privacy is gone and […]

Financial Sector Sees Cyber Incident Increase in February If your system has been hacked, what would your first reaction be? Speaking for myself, I think I would want to know who did it and figure out how it was done. That’s my personality, to learn the who, what, and why of a situation first, and […]

Financial Sector Sees Cyber Incident Increase in February Recently, President Obama issued an executive order to address cyberspying and other maliciously intended cyber activities conducted by hackers and spies in foreign countries. The order will assess penalties for overseas cyberspying and those that knowingly benefit from the act. In an email message to me, Greg […]

AV-TEST Identifies the 10 Best Security Products of 2014 Wi-Fi has serious security issues. As my colleague Carl Weinschenk wrote last year in a blog post discussing the vulnerability problems of Wi-Fi, particularly in the age of BYOD and working from anywhere, “… the world outside the firewall simply isn’t as secure as the world […]

Seven Ways to Improve Cybersecurity Through Behavioral Analysis Is 2016 the year that we make cybersecurity an election issue? Or has it finally become one of the few areas we can all (almost) agree needs to be a governmental priority at all levels? Yes, I know, we’re still nine months away from 2016, but we […]