Sue Poremba

Ten Approaches to Protecting Mobile Data Several dozen people of my acquaintance have security clearances of varying levels for their jobs. All of them have commented or complained about the restrictions involved with their clearances, mostly regarding their cellphones. Mobile devices within government have long been a tricky issue. Some of the first high-profile breaches […]

Five Things to Do Now for Greater Security and Compliance I caught snippets of an interview on NPR the other day with the author of a book about cybersecurity and cyberwar, written for the average person. It’s good timing, with the recent high-profile breaches on the minds of just about everyone lately. In fact, I’d […]

Five Things to Do Now for Greater Security and Compliance With all the talk about the Target breach and now Neiman Marcus revealing one too, this new research from Fortinet is very timely. According to the survey of 100 small to midsize business (SMB) retail organizations, one in five retailers is not Payment Card Industry […]

2014’s Top Network Security Predictions Revealed As the Snapchat and Target breaches continue to make headlines, a serious Yahoo malware attack has, in my opinion, been underreported. Maybe it was because it happened in Europe so it is just a blip on the American security radar? Or maybe it doesn’t generate the same kind of […]

Top Security Priorities for CIOs in 2014 One of the last things I wrote about in 2013 was the Target breach. I suspect that breach is going to linger for a while, not only for customers but for businesses that (I hope) are now thinking a lot more about the security of their credit card […]

IT Risk Is Not About IT – It’s About the Business Happy New Year! While you and I may have taken some time off to enjoy the holiday season, security professionals kept busy. We ended 2013 with a steady stream of revelations involving the Target breach, and now we’ve welcomed 2014 with the news of […]

Ten Approaches to Protecting Mobile Data Want to know a primary reason why CIOs and other IT professionals worry about the rise of personal smartphones and tablets being used on the company network? Arxan Technologies’ second annual State of Security in the App Economy report provides a good answer: 78 percent of the most popular […]

2014 Cybersecurity Forecast By now nearly everyone is familiar with bring your own device (BYOD). Some people out there still aren’t sure whether BYOD was nothing more than a buzzword in 2013 or if it really was a popular movement with serious security implications. (My personal thought is that the trendiness of the acronym downplayed […]

The 10 Worst Data Breaches of 2013 Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks certainly aren’t new. I’ve been talking about them for years. However, they have been changing. The traditional style of attack, the flood-the-target type that crashes a website, is still going strong. But now we are seeing an increase in application-layer attacks that have the […]

The security experts have made their predictions for 2014. Now it is time for CIOs to make some tough decisions and establish security priorities for the coming year. Certainly many of those predictions will come into play. The predictions aren’t made in a vacuum; CIOs would be foolish not to consider the situations in which […]

I woke up to an email from my husband: “I suppose you heard about the Target breach. I checked our credit card statement, and it looks like we’re okay for now. But I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a credit card replacement soon.” SlideShow: The Most Significant Cyber Attacks of 2013 Wait, what? Target […]

During the holiday season, it isn’t unusual to have visits with family members you haven’t seen for a while. You may not especially like all of these relatives, but at this time of the year, it just wouldn’t seem like the holidays without some rogue family members darkening our doorstep. SlideShow: The Most Significant Cyber […]