The (Immediate) Future of Ransomware
by 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 …
The Problem of Non-Human IDs in Organizations Today
The contents of this article are captured here and reflected back in response to an article posted on SailPoint’s Identity Quotient Blog article entitled “Third-Party …
History Demonstrates Strong Encryption Is Here To Stay
(Originally published on LinkedIn – January 13th, 2016) I am a firm believer that knowing the background and history of things provides a much better …
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, …
SailPoint IIQ: Rule Modeling in Real Java :-)
I’ve been sitting on this article and concept for months and have had others ask me about it via email — whether I’ve ever done …
Stupid Sailpoint Developer Tricks
G’day, mates — as they say Down Under, where I happen to be at the moment on a rather large SailPoint engagement. It’s been a …