If you've virtualized compute and storage, you may think you've completed the journey of digital transformation. It was a start-but it's not enough. Today, between on-site data centers, private and public clouds, there are more environments to manage than ever before. To keep up with the demands of the business, IT...
Software-defined networking (SDN) has been touted as the answer to all of the challenges of managing your network infrastructure. However, SDN is an architectural model for networking, not a reference design based on a well-defined set of protocols or standards. Gartner has developed a set of recommendations designed...
Modern applications are dynamic and distributed - and the attack surface keeps growing as a result. To secure your business, you need security integrated into your infrastructure, not bolted-on.
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IT infrastructure monitoring has long been the foundation for managing systems and application performance, availability and reliability. Today, monitoring solutions are needed more than ever due to huge increases in infrastructure scale and complexity, growth in cloud architecture deployments, and demands for a...
Cyberattacks are top of mind for organizations across the globe. In fact, 62 percent of firms are being attacked at least weekly and 45 percent are experiencing a rise in the number of security threats. But do organizations have the processes in place to investigate and effectively respond to these incidents? IDC...
Is a recent HIPAA settlement issued by the New York state attorney general's office another sign that states might begin to overshadow federal regulators when it comes to enforcement actions involving health data security and privacy?
Intel has had a challenging time lately on the vulnerability front. It has issued yet another patch for its Management Engine after a researcher was able to extract two types of encryption keys. The problem was a repeat of one that Intel patched just last year.
Less than four months after GDPR enforcement began, Europe has arguably entered the modern data breach notification era. Reports of data breaches continue to increase, and breached organizations now face the specter of class-action lawsuits over material as well as non-material damages.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of a new Government Accountability Office report on the causes of last year's massive Equifax breach. Also: An update on the role of tokenization in protecting payments.
The new Apple Watch 4, which includes a sensor that can conduct an electrocardiogram, spotlights the emergence of consumer apps that appear to cross over into the territory of medical devices, raising potential cybersecurity concerns.
A Romanian court has ruled that the notorious hacker "Guccifer," who discovered the existence of Hillary's Clinton's private email server, will be extradited to the U.S. to serve a 52-month prison sentence after he finishes serving a seven-year sentence in his home country.
Projections are there will be a ransomware attack on a business every 14 seconds by the end of 2019, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. Attackers are after every type of data they can get their hands on - from business critical data to social media - because data is something we value and are willing to pay a ransom...
Effective "SecOps" involves revamping security processes that are inconsistent and ad hoc to make them targeted and consistent, says Rapid7 CEO Corey Thomas, who describes the roles of automation and orchestration.
Technology can be both friend and foe to the automotive industry. According to recent studies, one hour of downtime alone can cost $22,000 - and businesses face up to 800 hours of downtime annually. That could be $17.6 million in losses, reputational damage not withstanding.
While many new technologies offer...
A newly released report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office on the massive 2017 Equifax data breach provides a postmortem look at what went wrong, centering on the credit bureau's identification, detection, segmentation and data governance, as well as a failure to rate-limit database requests.
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