CTO Insights: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Is Coming, What Now?
Based on the incidents we saw in 2016, I recommend that organizations enter 2017 with caution. From the growth of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks to cybercriminals using more effective ways to...
View ArticleLinkedIn Breach: More Questions than Answers
Earlier this week, it was reported that the 2012 breach of LinkedIn was far worse than originally thought: instead of the 6.5 million stolen records that were reported at the time, it turned out that...
View ArticleCTO Insights : Will 2016 Be a Better Year for Cyber Security?
2015 was a big challenge for cyber security. There were a lot of fireworks with all the high profile targets and attackers that made headlines. But now we can ask, will 2016 be a better year for cyber...
View ArticleTargeted Attacks: Not All Attacks Need To Be Sophisticated
The security industry loves to talk about how “sophisticated” attacks can be. Usually this takes the form of us saying how advanced and sophisticated an attack is, what new methods were used to hide...
View ArticleDefending Critical Systems: Does It Have To Be “Smart”?
Everywhere I go it seems to be that “critical” systems are being attacked. Earlier this year people were talking about whether planes could be hacked. We’ve talked about whether smart grids can be...
View ArticleCTO Insights: Internet of Things — Whose Data Is It, Anyway?
Everywhere you look, it seems to be that everything is becoming “smart”. On my wrist, I frequently wear a smart watch that monitors how many steps I take, what my heart rate is, and so on. At home, a...
View ArticleCTO Insights: Defending Your Organization From Insider Attacks
If you’ve read enough crime novels or seen enough action movies, the plot is all too familiar to you: an insider – acting to correct some slight or insult he or she received years ago – turns against...
View ArticleCTO Insights: Vulnerabilities for Sale
2014 showed that vulnerabilities could be found in all applications – both Heartbleed and Shellshock caught system administrators off-guard by revealing that open-source server applications could have...
View ArticleCTO Insights: Light Can Keep the Dark at Bay
We are all afraid of the unknown. Why? Because we all want to be in control of our lives: what career path to take, how to deal with our finances, where to go for a vacation. We like certainty. We...
View ArticleMobile Virtualization – Solving the BYOD Problem
For many users today, how they use technology is defined by mobile devices. Their primary device is not a desktop computer, or even a laptop. Instead, it’s a tablet or a smartphone. Instead of data...
View ArticleSetting Up Your Gadgets Securely
It’s that time of year again – the last quarter of the year is a time for many of us to buy a new smartphone, as we look at the new devices launched relatively recently by Apple, Samsung, and all the...
View ArticleMobile App Developers: Compete on Privacy and Security, Too
There are many mobile app developers today who want to develop the next hot mobile app. After all, if you pay your cards right, you could end up being bought by a much larger company like Facebook,...
View ArticleRebuilding Trust: Keeping Your Data Safe
For the past year or so, I’ve noticed that people are getting increasingly concerned about how protected their information is – not just from hackers, but from governments and large Internet companies...
View ArticleWill Bitcoin Succeed?
When you work for a security company, sometimes people think you must know everything there is to know about technology. So sometimes I get asked, “Will Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies succeed?”...
View ArticleSecuring the Internet of Everything
Whenever I hear about the Internet of Everything, I find myself somewhat conflicted. There’s no doubt that it is the new “mega trend” in technology, but at the same time I wonder how secure it is. Let...
View ArticlePrivacy and the Right to be Forgotten
Last month, there was a very interesting decision out of the European Court of Justice. The decision established what can be called the “right to be forgotten“. People can now ask search engines like...
View ArticleData Gathering Is a Two-Way Street
Today’s technology is becoming better and better at an exponential clip. It was only a few decades ago that we had cellphones the size of bricks and Internet the speed of which is only a fraction of a...
View ArticleAdvice for Enterprises in 2014: Protect Your Core Data
It is an interesting time to be in IT security today. PRISM and Edward Snowden taught many lessons about how companies should secure their data. There’s been a lot of discussion about the surveillance...
View ArticleMobile Banking and the Risks
There is no doubt that mobile banking is going to become very significant in 2014, if it isn’t already. In the United States, a quarter of all people selecting a bank say mobile banking is a...
View Article2014 Predictions: Blurring Boundaries
The past year has been an interesting one in the world of cyber security. Mobile malware has become a large-scale threat, government surveillance has users asking “does privacy still exist?”,...
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