Can You Trust a Third-Party User? No, But You Can Manage Their Lifecycle Access
by Syndicated here from a post on the CDW Research Hub published on March 21, 2024. Allowing third parties access to organizational systems means striking a …
Category: Data Security
Why IAM Is Insufficient for Data-Centric Security
The following article was written for and published here on the TrustLogix blog series pages in March 2022. I’m syndicating this here as the contents …
Ransomware: An Enterprise Perspective
The following article was written for Secure360.org as part of the information presented in an hour-long presentation I gave in Minneapolis entitled Data, Identity & …
Data Security & Identity Management: Essential 1st Cousins in IT Security
As a senior architect, sales engineer, and consultant out in the field working closely with senior IT security leaders and CISOs, I sometimes run into …
The (Immediate) Future of Ransomware
In keeping with the fact individuals and enterprises are seeing and experiencing a lot more occurrences of ransomware, I’m also seeing a lot of articles …
The Case for “Encrypt Everything”
Within the IT industry, when considering data-at-rest (DAR) encryption, you may have noticed recently that security experts seem a little divided on how to leverage …
Considerations Around Application Encryption
For years, the use of encryption to protect data-at-rest on computers within the enterprise was solely the responsibility of developers who coded the applications that …
Two Years Later: Reflections from “The Breach”
President and CEO of Vormetric, Alan Kessler, blogged earlier this week concerning the far-reaching impacts of the Target breach – reflections from almost two years …
History Foretells the Raising of the Ante: Securing Your Data Now All but Mandatory
It’s been said that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. In my last article, I wrote metaphorically about the medieval …
Data Is The New Gold: Getting Data Security Right in Retail
Traditional security has always been metaphorically tied to the medieval castle building of old: building thicker walls and drawbridges, creating multiple perimeters, raising larger armies, …