Recent history tells us that data migrations are fraught with potential risks. Whether your company is adopting new software, integrating a new operating system, or moving from a legacy system to the cloud, migrating data requires meticulous planning that covers all the bases. Skipping any of the processes, tools, and tests necessary for a successful [...]
Protecting against cyberthreats and the whole cybersecurity landscape is changing fast, with new threats and vulnerabilities appearing daily. Gartner’s 2019 Audit Key Risks and Priorities Survey showed 77% of audit departments plan to cover cybersecurity detection and prevention in audit activities. To make sure their data network is secure, businesses need to face security risks and protect [...]
The pressure is on for IT leadership to guide their organizations through digital transformation. Cloud services compose the modern toolbox for IT to accelerate and enable their businesses. Cloud platforms power more agile product development, better customer service, and big data processing solutions that can create a company’s competitive edge. Digital transformation does not work [...]
Our data lives in the cloud, and as we learned in our latest Cloud Adoption & Risk Report, nearly a quarter of it requires protection to limit our risk. However, the risk of exposure is counter to one of the key tenets of many cloud services—collaboration. Cloud storage services like Box, or productivity suites like Office [...]
The people writing software for self-driving cars are having difficulties. Telling a car to stop at a red light is relatively easy, but recent articles have pointed out the difficulties of merging into fast moving traffic, dealing with roundabouts and updated roadwork. In IT security we experience some of the same issues – the basic [...]
The use of cloud services is ubiquitous—we’ve seen this rise over the past decade to the point where many of our organizations couldn’t function today without the cloud. Critical to this growth is the understanding that data, and most importantly sensitive data, now lives in the cloud and must be protected. In our last survey [...]
Our data lives in the cloud and nearly a quarter of it requires protection to limit our risk. However, the risk of exposure is counter to one of the key tenets of many cloud services—collaboration. Cloud storage services like Box, or productivity suites like Office 365 are used to increase the fluidity of collaboration. But [...]
With Gartner predicting that 80% of companies will close their data centres completely by 2025, it’s clear that companies are embracing cloud-based infrastructure. How we work has changed; employees are increasingly mobile, and our IT environments are far more complex. As attack surfaces broaden and incidents of credential theft skyrocket, most CISOs have come to the [...]
Companies of all sizes are adopting cloud-based services, such as Microsoft Office 365, as a way to give their end-users greater flexibility and easier access to core business applications. This requires corporate IT departments to re-examine their current data security posture such as data loss prevention (DLP) policies to better monitor and control sensitive data [...]
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) public cloud market grew 31 percent in 2016 to total $22.1 billion, up from $16.8 billion in 2015, and is expected to show the fastest growth over the next five years compared to platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS), according to Gartner. With increasing adoption of IaaS platforms, we also see [...]
