The year has just begun and as with previous years, many worrying strains of destructive malware have yet again been detected. Unlike ransomware, where you at least have a chance of recovering your data after paying the ransom, the new destructive techniques pose a very real and serious threat to businesses. The recently reported HermeticWiper…
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Identity-Centric Security: 10 Data Points from 10 Different Vendors (and a book) Make the Case
There’s almost universal consensus that perimeter-centric security is insufficient for today’s distributed IT environments. But where debate amongst IT pros and vendors now rages is whether the optimal enterprise security approach today is application-centric, data-centric, or identity-centric. Data-centric and application-centric approaches have merit, but each can be undermined simply by the wrong identity accessing data,…
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Zero Trust Myth Series: Leveraging Risk Analysis to Enhance Trust
Trust is a foundational part of personal relationships, and it is a foundational part of the digital relationships between employees, their devices, and the enterprise. However, the sad fact facing security professionals is that there are some insiders – whether they are disgruntled employees or external threat actors acting as legit users that penetrated the…
