Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesIncompatibility between CISOs and their companies can lead to stress, frustration, burnout and rapid turnover. Identify your CISO style to target the ideal role and environment for you. By Alissa Irei Steve Tcherchian The role of CISO has grown in profile and importance in recent years, as evolving and escalating digital threats raise the stakes for organizations of every size
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWhat you need to know about storage-as-a-service options to make them work for your organization. Service levels, data protection and upgrade schedules can be the differentiators. By Chris Evans Storage is one of the biggest capital expenditures in the data center. Enterprises are creating and retaining increasing amounts of data, hoping to exploit some potential future value. One scenario to
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesEnterprises can choose from three major approaches to mitigate DDoS attacks on their networks: Buy from an ISP, do it themselves or use a CDN service. By John Cavanaugh Distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attacks are becoming more common in enterprise networks and are sometimes even combined with ransomware. The main types of DDoS attacks are the following: Volumetric DDoS. This attack crushes devices
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesThe types of DDoS attacks organizations face have grown and size of these attacks has increased. Expert Michael Cobb explains how to secure systems against common DDoS methods. By Michael Cobb A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aims to exhaust the resources of a network, application or service so that genuine users cannot gain access. There are different types of DDoS
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesFor strong network security, many vendors say VPNs don’t cut it anymore. Enter SDP and zero-trust models, which are similar yet offer stricter and innovative security capabilities. By Michaela Goss To create a secure tunnel from one point to another or to make resources invisible to outside threats may seem like scenarios that require magic; in reality, they just need
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWith so many dangerous threats in the IT landscape, make sure you protect your data backups from the likes of corruption, unauthorized access and leakage. By Paul Kirvan Perhaps the most important objective for a data backup system is to ensure that backed-up data remains exactly the same as the original and hasn’t been compromised. By definition, backup is the process by
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesThis data security guide digs into data protection and privacy compliance, explaining how to construct a proactive security strategy strengthened by best practices. By Sandra Gittlen Data security is one of the most daunting tasks for IT and infosec professionals. Each year, companies of all sizes spend a sizable portion of their IT security budgets protecting their organizations from hackers
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAs companies look to bring employees back into the office, security teams must consider how to handle security testing due to initial remote work deployments and shadow IT. By Mark Whitehead, Guest Contributor When state governments across the U.S. began issuing shelter-in-place orders over the past couple of months, businesses had to quickly learn how to enable a fully remote workforce for
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWith companies continuing work from home for the foreseeable future, Rohit Dhamankar offers home security advice to help security and employees keep company data and employee devices secure. By Rohit Dhamankar, Guest Contributor Having employees connect remotely to your corporate network is not new. Most companies use cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and have some virtual private network (VPN) or remote
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesAs cloud becomes intrinsic to IT, shifting roles have led to some risks being overlooked. But companies are getting smarter about alleviating cloud cybersecurity threats. By Mary K. Pratt Enterprise IT has more than a decade of experience in cloud computing, yet many organizations still report significant struggles when it comes to securing their cloud deployments. The reasons for the
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