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 [...]
In 2017, the Women in Cybersecurity Survey Report noted that only 11% of cybersecurity jobs are held by women. Of the women that were surveyed, 50% identified gender discrimination as a reason why there are so few women in cybersecurity, while 28% stated that they didn’t feel valued at work. The survey also revealed that the overall [...]
Cloud services are now a vital part of corporate life, bringing a momentous opportunity to accelerate business through their ability to quickly scale, allowing us to be agile with our resources, and providing new opportunities for collaboration. The typical organization uses, on average, 1,935 cloud services spanning enterprise-ready services procured by the IT department such [...]
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 [...]
he Zero Trust security framework was first developed by John Kindervag in 2009 while he was at Forrester Research. Zero Trust challenged the traditional security model of a firewall forming a perimeter between a trusted internal network and an untrusted external one. This security approach breaks down if a threat actor is able to penetrate that [...]
Data is the new oil—an observation not lost on hackers. In a world of growing interconnectivity, our most valuable digital assets—including our digital identities–have never been so exposed. After all, attackers of the digital age now simply log in, using stolen credentials to gain access to protected documents and privileged information. Relying on usernames and [...]
