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Five Digitally Vulnerable Areas Your Business May be Overlooking Did you know today is World Backup Day? If not, don’t feel bad. I found out only a couple of days ago. However, I think that today is as good a day as any to focus on the importance of backing up data. If your network […]

Five Digitally Vulnerable Areas Your Business May Be Overlooking The Ponemon Institute and ID Experts released the Fourth Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security earlier this month. Health care-related security issues seem to be less discussed these days, as other industries and organizations have grabbed the security headlines. But just because we […]

Five Important Lessons from Recent Data Breaches Here’s a cold reality that anyone who works in IT security will not like: Your customers don’t trust you to keep their personal information secure. A Harris poll from last year found that less than half of Americans trust the government with their personal information. Frankly, I’m surprised […]

Five Considerations for Building an Effective Incident Response Framework About a month ago, I reported on a study from Ponemon Institute and AccessData that revealed that most companies are doing a poor job when it comes to detecting and effectively responding to a cyberattack. As Dr. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, […]

Top Five Vulnerabilities that Enable Phone Fraud On Monday, I wrote about the challenges of fundamental BYOD security. Today I continue my conversation with Brian Tokuyoshi, senior product marketing manager with Palo Alto Networks, focusing on a multi-layered approach to BYOD security. Using a multi-layered security approach is pretty common for the network, and I […]

Six BYOD Questions Users Should Ask IT Recently, I had an email conversation with Brian Tokuyoshi, senior product marketing manager for Palo Alto Networks, about BYOD security in general and about the challenges of using a multi-layered security approach in specific. BYOD security is a much-discussed topic, but I also believe it is a constantly […]

Ten Approaches to Protecting Mobile Data Apparently, passwords are on my mind lately. Not too surprising since I had to reset several of my passwords recently. Passwords drive me crazy, to be honest, especially when I need to use them on my phone or tablet. For some reason, I have some passwords that I know […]

Eight Ways to Create Stronger Passwords and Protect Your Accounts At the end of February, Hold Security announced that it discovered over 300 million stolen or compromised login credentials. During that same week, Fortinet revealed the results of a survey of Generation X and Millennial adults in which they were asked their attitudes toward passwords. […]

Seven New Security Technologies Coming Out at RSA We already know that C-level executives are woefully uninformed about cybersecurity within their own companies. Now a new study from SilverSky looks at employee perception of enterprise security. And it looks like the employees are more aware than their bosses about how often the network is attacked […]

Seven New Security Technologies Coming Out at RSA In the time it took me to write this sentence, approximately 20 networks were hit with a cyberattack. No, it did not take me very long to write that sentence—it’s just that, according to the 2013 threat report from FireEye, a cyberattack is happening every 1.5 seconds. […]

How to Secure Your Company’s Greatest Risk: The User I’m an Android user by default. I don’t like the Apple devices, and the other options out there didn’t fit my needs. But one of the first things I do whenever I acquire a new Android device is to make sure I’ve downloaded security apps from […]

Tips for Protecting Small and Medium Businesses A lot of coverage has been dedicated to BYOD and security from the employer’s side of things. Now an interesting new study out from AdaptiveMobile shows what employees don’t know about BYOD, which is mostly how much control employers have over those personally owned devices. According to FierceMobileIT: […]