On March 12, I participated in a webcast webinar with SC Magazine on how to guard against a data breach. The webinar content highlighted the results of SCMagazine’s 6th annual data breach survey which polled IT security professionals in the US, UK and Australia, and also featured Stephen Fridakis, CISO at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, who shared his interpretation of the results and discussed the various measures he and his peers intend to implement in order to keep data out of the wrong
When organizations build products, not just security products, they do so with a user interface that ultimately sets the tone for the overall user experience. This can range from very positive (if the organization takes an Apple-like approach to user interfaces) all the way to negative for products where the common use cases aren’t thought through well enough. As customers and partners begin to realize the value of a product or service, one question that usually comes up is whether
Over the past three months, I’ve had dozens of interesting conversations with Vormetric customers about how their data security strategies are changing as the result of business mandates around things like cloud adoption and big data. From those interactions, two things became crystal clear to me: first, it’s a whole new era in data security that makes perimeter security far less relevant, and second, enterprises are laser focused on making sure they ‘protect what matters,’ anywhere it happens to reside,
Cloud computing has changed the way that companies do business. The ability to leverage economies of scale have allowed businesses to stretch scarce resources – the old “do more with less” mandate with which companies, and particularly IT departments, are often hit during tight economic times. But while private clouds can make it easier for organizations to build availability and scale resources, it can also make data protection in the cloud more complex. A recent article in Datamation titled “Private
Last week, Vormetric attended the RSA Security Event. As always, the event is informative and useful for security professionals. This year, though, there was a new tone to the rhetoric and it is one that seems almost resigned. In fact, in his keynote kickoff speech, RSA Chief Arthur Coviello said, “ Our networks will be penetrated. We should no longer be surprised by this.” He went on to discuss the increased sophistication and persistence of criminal groups and hacktivists in
The rapid advances in computing platforms and technology has provided significant resources, capacity, and processing capabilities to companies across a wide variety of industries. It provides a greater level of flexibility in a cost-effective manner. In a budget conscious business environment, improving network capacity and stability while maintaining a keen eye on the bottom line will always win support from the boardroom. In September 2011, Forbes published an article entitled “The Economic Benefit of Cloud Computing,” in which the author
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