Sue Poremba

Six Data Breach Predictions for 2015 The recent Sony Pictures hack has been intriguing, to say the least. I know much of the focus has been on North Korea’s role in the attack, which takes cyber espionage and cyber extortion to levels we haven’t seen before. Forget the critical infrastructure, let’s hit people where it […]

How to Avoid a Data Breach: Five Tips for Retailers Where does your business stand on security readiness? If you are like the majority of small businesses, you are pretty nervous about your cybersecurity efforts and ability to thwart and/or react to a threat. In October, e-Management asked attendees at the CyberMaryland Conference about their […]

Using Tokenization for Superior Data Security The biggest malware story of the week isn’t directly affecting American businesses or government – at least not yet. Earlier this week, Symantec announced the discovery of a Trojan the company dubbed Regin. It’s a back-door Trojan that is being used primarily for espionage and surveillance. Researchers are also […]

Five Tips to Avoid Falling Victim to Online Scammers It’s hard to believe that almost a year has passed since Target announced that its credit card payment system was breached. Considering the hit to Target’s reputation, you would think that retail outlets would have been stepping up the security game. However, as we’ve seen throughout […]

Five Tips to Avoid Falling Victim to Online Scammers This has not been a good year for passwords. It seems like every other week, a newly discovered vulnerability or cyberattack came with a disclaimer: “Change your password!” Or, in the case of Heartbleed: “Change your passwords – but wait until after we fix the bug!” […]

Five Myths Holding Your Security Program Back A new study conducted by Gigaom Research and CipherCloud shows just how prevalent shadow IT and the shadow cloud have become within the business setting. It also shows just how worried IT departments are about the risks involved. Cloud adoption and software-as-a-service applications (SaaS) have skyrocketed over the […]

Eight Ways BYOD Is Transforming IT I feel like I’ve spent a lot of time this year talking about insider threats and the security risks posed by employees and third-party vendors and consultants. Now, a recent study by Bitglass shows just how much damage the insider threat can cause. In its 2014 Healthcare Breach Report, […]

Using Tokenization for Superior Data Security This was Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday week, and there were a significant number of patches this month. According to eWeek, 33 vulnerabilities were addressed including fixes for a code execution vulnerability in SSL. SSL has taken a beating in 2014 with vulnerabilities like Heartbleed, but this particular issue appears to […]

Trends in Cyber Crime: A Look at the First Half of 2014 Business executives take note – malware is specifically targeted at you when you are staying at a high-end hotel. According to Kaspersky Lab, which is credited with the discovery, the malware, dubbed Darkhotel, is a corporate espionage campaign that steals sensitive data, targeting […]

Five Critical Tenets of Identity and Access Management Once again, a third-party vendor is at the root of a major data breach. This time it is Home Depot releasing details on the breach that was revealed earlier this fall. As CNET reported: Hackers entered Home Depot’s network using credentials stolen from a third-party vendor, the […]

Five Myths Holding Your Security Program Back Apple OS X and iOS are the targets of a new family of malware. It’s believed that this is one of the first malware attacks to specifically target non-jailbroken Apple devices. The new malware has been dubbed WireLurker and was found to impact thousands of devices in China. […]

Five Secrets to Impress a Job Interviewer A new Ernst & Young survey found that companies are willing to spend more money on security for their networks and the devices that connect to them. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the survey respondents worry that they won’t be able to hire well-trained […]