Cloud Governance Fails Could Trigger Privacy Compliance Issues: Report

On average, an enterprise now uses 1,427 cloud services. Seventy-one percent of these are enterprise services, with the remainder being consumer services. The average employee actively uses 36 cloud services, including nine collaboration services, six file sharing services, and five content sharing services (such as YouTube). These figures come from an analysis of 30 million…

Do You Need a Threat Intelligence Team?

I have the great opportunity to spend time with CSOs and IT executives to understand their cybersecurity concerns and help them map out a strategy for success. An increasingly common question I’ve been hearing is, “Does my organization need a threat intelligence team?” Adding threat intelligence capabilities to your organization can be valuable, with their…

Breaking down New York’s new cyber regulations

In late September, the New York Department of Financial Services (NY DFS) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a series of new rules strengthening cybersecurity requirements for financial firms in the state of New York. Financial firms are treasure troves of private client data and one of the most sought after targets for attackers. In the…

How To Build A Strong Security Awareness Program

At the Security Awareness Summit this August in San Francisco, a video clip was shown that highlights the need to develop holistic security awareness. The segment showed an employee being interviewed as a subject matter expert in his office cubicle. Unfortunately, all his usernames and passwords were on sticky notes behind him, facing the camera…