Sue Poremba

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives The Internet of Things is moving into an office near you. Maybe even into your office. Are you ready for the security challenge? Gartner predicts that by 2020, 26 billion devices will make up the Internet of Things (IoT) and be connected to a corporate network. […]

The 11 Essentials of Enterprise Security One thing that jumped out at me while I was at Computer and Enterprise Investigations Conference (CEIC) 2014 in May was the number of discussions regarding the lack of well-trained IT security professionals. Many of the different sessions I attended brought up this issue as one of the reasons […]

Q1 2014 Report: Innovative New Threats Targeting Mobile OSes You may have heard the recent news about Apple devices that have been remotely locked and are being held for ransom. If not, here is Symantec’s explanation of what’s going on: Based on initial feedback, a number of Apple IDs have been compromised and used to […]

Five Digitally Vulnerable Areas Your Business May be Overlooking The health care industry has had its share of cybersecurity breakdowns over the years. The vast majority of health care organizations have suffered at least one data breach within the last two years, according to a Doctor’s Lounge article, but the article goes on to say […]

Nine Questions to Ask When Selecting a Security Vendor Last week, I attended the 2014 Computer Enterprise Investigations Conference (CEIC), where I got to talk to some very interesting people and sit in on some fascinating sessions. Two of the mornings of my trip, I was awoken by the breaking news alert tone on my […]

How Heartbleed Is Changing Security Heartbleed and the OAuth and OpenID vulnerabilities have created a lot of questions about open source security. And Zack Whittaker writes in this article in ZDNet that these vulnerabilities aren’t out of the norm: Many millions of Java-based and other open source applications are vulnerable to flaws that have been […]

The 11 Essentials of Enterprise Security In what is becoming old news, passwords are under attack again. This time the passwords in question are those used for Google accounts. The form of attack is through a sophisticated phishing scam, according to the BitDefender researchers who first discovered it. According to eSecurity Planet, this is what […]

The 11 Essentials of Enterprise Security How many security incidents do you think your company has each day? Whatever number you come up with, chances are, you’ve underestimated. According to Damballa’s Q1 2014 State of Infections Report, the average enterprise network has 10,000 security-related events per day. And for some companies, that 10,000 number is […]

Final Patch Tuesday Quietly Ushers Out XP and 2003 When Microsoft released an out-of-band patch for the zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, it included a fix for Windows XP users. You may remember that the vulnerability was the first in the post-XP-support era, and you can count me among those who were surprised that Microsoft […]

How Heartbleed Is Changing Security Open source applications and tools certainly are taking a beating lately. Heartbleed sent millions of people into a panic about changing passwords (and based on my Facebook feed and the online forums I follow, panic is the right word to describe it). Now the Covert Redirect bug, a security flaw […]

Seven Key Components to Start Your Incident Response Plan Have you heard the news from today? Target’s CEO has stepped down, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press: … after a devastating holiday-season data breach and uneven growth that failed to live up to the company’s storied past. Does the “uneven growth” have anything to […]

Survey after survey shows it: Both consumers and employees question privacy on enterprise networks. For example, TRUSTe, a global data privacy management company, found that consumer trust has hit a three-year low. A GFI Software survey found that employees worry about identity theft within their company. However, while the concerns themselves aren’t new, the survey […]