What the Cybersecurity Industry Can Learn from Elections
If you think about what an election is, you can see that it’s largely about data quality. Millions of people create a few pieces of data each. All that data flows through a multi-layered system and...
View ArticleSecurity Alerts Are IT Security Theater
User threat intelligence, privileged misuse detection and intrusion detection technologies simply detect the most clumsy and incompetent attackers. The post Security Alerts Are IT Security Theater...
View ArticleIT Outsourcing is Costlier Than Expected
For the second consecutive year our IT Outsourcing Survey, conducted at InfoSec Europe 2012, revealed some grim statistics for those who see outsourcing as an effective cost-cutting measure. More than...
View Article2016 IT Security Predictions
For many organizations around the world, 2015 could be called the "Year of the Devastating Data Breach." For vendors of IT security, 2016 will be the “Year of Destruction.” Here are our 2016 IT...
View ArticleThe Annual Holiday Season IT Implementation Freeze
Criminal hackers and nation-state attackers don’t care what time of year it is. They won’t respect your IT freeze, so continuous security improvement and continuous compliance needs to occur 365 days a...
View ArticleInfoSec Policies and Standards
Organizations are giving more priority to development of information security (InfoSec) policies, as protecting their assets is one of the prominent things that needs to be considered. The post InfoSec...
View ArticleBoosting Enterprise Security – Part II
Consequently I recommend against outsourcing IT security to a third party. IT service providers may give you unique and powerful perspectives, but at the end of the day it's up to each organization to...
View Article39% of IT Staff Can Get Unauthorized Access to Sensitive Data
If there’s one thing we enjoy here at Identity Week, it’s conducting anonymous surveys to learn what’s really going on down at the admin level in IT shops around the world. Here’s what we found out...
View ArticleIT Outsourcing is Costlier Than Expected
For the second consecutive year our IT Outsourcing Survey, conducted at InfoSec Europe 2012, revealed some grim statistics for those who see outsourcing as an effective cost-cutting measure. More than...
View ArticleIT Security Hiring Picking Up
When it comes to job growth there’s no better field to be in right now than IT security. Tim Wilson at Dark Reading shared a few highlights last week from analyzing U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data...
View ArticleThink Globally When it Comes to IT Security
At Lieberman Software, we’ve worked hard to do two things: build an industry-leading privileged identity management solution, and establish a top-notch partner program to support our network of...
View ArticleRemedy Poor Legacy Security Decisions with These Tips to Improve IT Security...
However, even once you accept the fact that the bad guys are going to get into your network, you can significantly mitigate the damage done. Here are some tips to bolster your organization’s IT...
View Article4 Out of 5 IT Pros Agree – Employees Deliberately Ignore IT Security Rules
For all of you IT admins and managers privately suspicious that no matter what you do to protect the security of your network, your end-users will thwart you anyway – guess what? Our latest survey...
View ArticleSurvey Says: Complicated IT Security Products Put Companies at Risk
69 percent of respondents said they’re not using their IT security products to their full potential. Among this group, 71 percent believe this is putting their company, and possibly customers and...
View ArticleSenior Management Must Step Up to Fill IT Security Void
Until now, both IT and senior management have been able to ignore the fundamentals of information security by buying technology recommended by industry analyst firms, as well as by going through make...
View ArticleIS IT Security Training a Liability?
One of the fundamental problems with most businesses today is that they are not investing in providing IT staff with basic information security training. Many companies have compartmentalized in such a...
View ArticleHow is Your IT Security Health?
Over the past few days, one thing got my attention which I think in many ways sums up the state of the IT Security industry. While on a shopping trip with my wife, she noticed a billboard from a...
View ArticleMost IT Pros Don’t Report Their Colleagues When They Catch Them Misbehaving
According to data we’ve sifted from our survey of attendees at RSA Conference 2013, 45% of IT workers have snitched on co-workers they’ve caught breaking corporate IT rules or accessing sensitive...
View ArticleThe Low Hanging Fruit of IT Security
As companies continue to struggle in today’s difficult economy, cutbacks affect all sectors of organizations. Unfortunately, IT security solutions are often not spared form the chopping block – a risky...
View Article39% of IT Staff Can Get Unauthorized Access to Sensitive Data
If there’s one thing we enjoy here at Identity Week, it’s conducting anonymous surveys to learn what’s really going on down at the admin level in IT shops around the world. Here’s what we found out...
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