Sue Poremba

Six Security Predictions and Tips for SMBs in 2015 I got an email from an acquaintance the other night with a single question: “Is this true?” and it contained a link to an article on Yahoo about the NSA hiding spyware in hard drives. I’m pretty sure my acquaintance did not want this story to […]

Top 10 Tips for Educating Employees About Cybersecurity It seems that cybersecurity data sharing is all the rage these days. Just today, I read an article about the creation of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, an Obama administration initiative meant to encourage the flow of cybersecurity-related data between government agencies and private businesses. I […]

Listen Up CIOs and CISOs: Are You Ready for What’s Coming? I remember when I heard that Jeb Bush was going to be proactive and release all of the emails from his gubernatorial years before he officially begins his presidential campaign. My first reaction was that this wasn’t going to turn out well. I totally […]

Ten Vulnerabilities that Impact Enterprise Cloud Apps Last week, CipherCloud revealed the results of a survey regarding the use of shadow IT. The study found that of the 1,100 cloud applications used in an enterprise setting, 86 percent of those are being used without authorization of the IT department. Fellow IT Business Edge blogger Arthur […]

Security Lessons Learned from 2014: The Year of the Mega Breaches I was watching one of my favorite news shows late last night when the host came back from commercials with a breaking news story: Health-insurance company Anthem had been breached. The show’s host provided a couple of details of what the breach entailed; he […]

Five Easy Steps for Securing Data Don’t think you are vulnerable to an insider threat? You might want to have a conversation with your IT department, then. According to Vormetric’s 2015 Insider Threat Report, 93 percent of IT personnel think their company is at risk from an insider threat. Also, 59 percent of respondents worry […]

Five Easy Steps for Securing Data A week or so ago, research firm SplashData released its annual list of worst passwords. It’s pretty sad how, year after year, breach after breach, warning after warning, Internet users continue to use the same weak passwords. Even though there are a few new ones this year, like baseball […]

Five Easy Steps for Securing Data Today is National Data Privacy Day. I’m sure all of my readers are celebrating this day by changing their passwords and ensuring that their mobile devices are locked. National Data Privacy Day is the brainchild of the National Cyber Security Alliance, the folks who bring you Cybersecurity Awareness Month, […]

How to Avoid a Data Breach: Five Tips for Retailers Last week, I wrote about the issue of cybersecurity spending. While budgets for cybersecurity are on the rise, that doesn’t mean the money is being spent wisely. This week, I want to talk a little more about why cybersecurity spending is rising. According to a […]

Six Data Breach Predictions for 2015 How wisely are you spending your security budget? If a Gartner study from this summer was correct, businesses spent nearly $400 per employee on security efforts in 2014. That’s a lot of money, especially for the average SMB, but you have to balance that with the costs involved in […]

The Future of Fraud: Five E-Commerce Predictions for 2015 Now that the annual State of the Union address has been given, I thought it would be interesting to hear what some cybersecurity experts have to say about the President’s data security and privacy initiatives. I admit I was disappointed that little depth or explanation was […]

How to Prevent Data from Being Breached An article on CNN about thousands of French websites that have been hacked mentions how this is a more common occurrence than most realize, saying that websites and companies fight off potential attacks daily. But then this paragraph caught my eye: But what could make this episode in […]