Our 2015 Business Continuity Review – Cloudy with Scattered Security Breaches
Information security, both in-cloud and on-premise, was somewhat higher profile during 2015. The top three threats for the year for cloud environments were (in decreasing order of importance) app attacks, suspicious activity, and brute force.
IT Security Trends in Technology, Politics and People – Always Two Sides to the Coin
With mobile computing already so widespread and the promise to add billions more attached devices, a large part of your security will be determined by the state of your technology.
IT Security and the End of Ivory Towers, Bolt-Ons and Bigger Fences
Have you ever looked at an IT security plan and wondered, “what’s wrong with this picture?” When words like “policy”, “procedure” and even “implementation” are prominent, but others like “user”, “training”, “performance” and “awareness” seem to be pushed into the background, there may be room for improvement. Unless your context is entirely “lights-out” and computer-driven […]
The Rise of Rule-Based Security in Cloud Computing
Corporate policies on anything from safety to ethical sourcing are all about rules. Do this; don’t do that! Often created from the experience of everything that went wrong in the past, policies can soon turn into large, unwieldy documents. IT security also has its rules, some of them born of common sense, others of past […]
IT Security, One Rotten Apple and a Whole Bad Barrel
Barrels of apples can go bad, both literally and figuratively, because of just one rotten apple. The rot spreads from one apple to another until the whole barrel is infected. Not so long ago (in 2014), experts from security company ESET discovered 25,000 servers infected with malware, some of these servers being grouped together in […]
3 Broad Categories of Cyber-Security Trends for 2016
System hacks, data breaches and information theft are frequently in the news, and will surely continue to feature strongly in 2016. However, recent crystal ball gazing by different actors and experts yielded an intriguing variety of predictions for the coming year. Broadly speaking, there are IT security trends we can expect, those we should suspect, […]