Many countries now mandate that its citizens’ data must stay in the country. This is counter to the spirit of globalization and adds layers of complexity to delivering IT services and security. It is time to put data at the center of modern security programs.
SaaS applications are not going anywhere, and we must face the fact that they have access to our company’s most sensitive data. With SaaS, the shadow IT challenge has expanded and deepened even further.
Amid great number of existing frameworks in the area of risk management, compliance, privacy and security, new are still drafted and existing ones updated and refined. This is first and for all for big and global companies on which there is most pressure to stay compliant and ethical in whatever they do or intend to do.
Companies that are downsizing, or still planning to, must have an insider threat program in place or run the risk of falling victim to a massive cyberattack that could cripple the business for months to come, ultimately making the cost reductions a worthless exercise.
Secure Service Edge (SSE) may be the architecture of the future by delivering connectivity and security tools from the cloud to reduce complexity, risk, and cost.
SaaS solutions are widely used and are mission-critical for their users. As such, they should be treated with the utmost importance, just like their mission-critical non-SaaS business applications. Solutions are now available for vendor-agnostic SaaS backup.
The wide-ranging privacy laws in place around the world means that security teams need to be concerned about identity management and identity transfer. Organizations need a way for users to control and manage their credentials in digital form in a way that allows for greater identity portability while maintaining security standards.
Password fatigue is rapidly becoming threat actors’ greatest weapon when it comes to account takeover. The key is removing passwords from the equation altogethe and a new generation of passwordless, phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication is rapidly emerging as enterprises’ answer to password fatigue.
With risks being discovered by a wide range of security tools, how can vulnerability management teams ensure their vulnerability risk management programs are actually targeting the highest-priority risks and therefore supporting ongoing cybersecurity goals? When these tools and their findings are siloed, the answer is, unfortunately, simple: they can’t.
Emerging cyber risk quantification methods are allowing boards to ask “what if” questions if operating conditions change, and to align cyber risk with what they know about the business—upcoming economic challenges, potential merger and acquisition activities, or even the effect on the company’s financial statements or stock price.










