Sue Poremba

Five Critical Tenets of Identity and Access Management High-profile breaches seem to be a weekly thing now. That shouldn’t be surprising, considering how many breaches happen every single day. But most breaches are affecting small companies and thus don’t generate much news or they are going undetected. It’s the bigger companies that are breached that […]

Five Ways a CFO Can Invest in Securing Their Organization Do you have a cybersecurity emergency plan in place? If you do, are you confident in your cybersecurity plan? If you answered both of these questions with a yes, pat yourself on the back for a job well done. And then volunteer some advice to […]

Cybersecurity 101: Protecting Your Organization in 10 Steps Have you noticed how quickly the story of the Russian hackers and the billion stolen passwords has quieted down? I’ve spoken to a couple of security experts who admitted to being skeptical, and I read a few articles that raise a lot of unanswered questions about this […]

How to Effectively Address Privacy Concerns There is a fine line between security and privacy. After all, a data breach does compromise the privacy of an individual’s stored information. And according to a recent study conducted by Rad Campaign, Lincoln Park Strategies and Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, it appears that the vast majority of American […]

Cybersecurity Grades Released for Key Industries By now, you’ve heard about the Russian gang of hackers who allegedly gathered more than a billion user names and passwords and a lot of other information. How did you react to the news? I kind of shrugged my shoulders about it. It’s news, sure, but as someone who […]

Cybersecurity Grades Released for Key Industries Malware itself isn’t big news. The issue of malicious software has been a problem that security and IT professionals have been battling for years. But now hackers have added a new twist to malware. Where traditional malware is found in files embedded in your computer, Trend Micro’s Trend Labs […]

Cybersecurity Grades Released for Key Industries Congress is getting ready to head out for its August break and Washington is going into its summer slumber period, but some exciting cybersecurity-related news is coming from the nation’s capital during this waning legislative period. The House of Representatives has passed legislation that would strengthen the Department of […]

Five Ways Encryption Has (or Hasn’t) Changed Since Snowden More than 175 million records were compromised between April and June due to 237 data breaches, bringing the 2014 total to 375 million records affected and 559 data breaches. That’s a lot of records illegally accessed for less than 1,000 breaches worldwide. What this tells me […]

Cybersecurity Grades Released for Key Industries Back in the early 2000s, a coworker walked into the office I shared with several other people, totally distraught. When asked what was wrong, he told us that a relative of his had fallen for the Nigerian email scam, lost tens of thousands of dollars, and now risked losing […]

Five Ways Encryption Has (or Hasn’t) Changed Since Snowden Where are you most vulnerable to a cyber attack? If you said your endpoints, like desktop computers and mobile phones, are most vulnerable to potential threats, you’d be agreeing with 74 percent of IT security professionals, according to a new survey from Promisec. The problem, however, […]

Five Hard Truths About Critical Infrastructure Protection Communication and education may be the most important elements to improving network security. After all, the more your employees know about the types of threats out there and the tactics the bad guys are using, the more secure the network will be (in theory, anyway). But if the […]

Five Critical Steps for Handling a Security Breach An interesting article in Fortune this morning covered a round table of security and technology experts who discussed the biggest threats to businesses. Stephen Gillett, Symantec’s chief operating officer, said there were three types of threats: script kiddies, organized crime and state-sponsored. In my opinion, he forgot […]