In the ongoing war against cybercrime, an enterprise must have a battle plan that assumes a continual posture of assessment and vigilance. With cloud and perimeter expansion, the attack landscape is growing vast, requiring unremitting watchfulness and safeguarding of corporate assets. There must be a concerted effort to eliminate unnecessary vulnerabilities across an enterprise through diligent system hardening to reduce the potential for zero-day exploits ..read more

Vendor consolidation moves away from single-function products that address very explicit problems, to multi-function platforms that solve a wide variety of security challenges ..read more

For manufacturing and industrial enterprises, strong relationships between partners and suppliers are the foundation for continued productivity and success. Many of these trusted collaborations have been years in the making. But these relationships can ultimately be the weakest links in a supply chain that could compromise the entire enterprise and its customers ..read more

A security analyst, IT admin, and risk officer walk into a bar. The next day, they get together and talk about the night before. The security analyst says, “I was so drunk last night, I dropped and shattered my laptop that had the EDR analysis report.” The IT admin declares, “That's nothing, I mistakenly sent my privileged credentials to a ransomware group.” The risk officer shares, “I went home, and my alarm went on.” The security analyst and IT admin respond with “What's so bad about that?” He replies, “You guys don't understand! The alarm was the company's SOAR alerting me of a major breach ..read more

All of us have developed a measure of personal risk surrounding multiple points of vulnerability. Those vulnerability points include access to our dwellings, accounts, and applications we’ve downloaded for entertainment, business, social media, and smart devices for home management ..read more

From antiquity to the present, every civilization has felt the need to develop a warning system to alert the citizenry of impending peril. Whether the source of the imminent danger was due to natural disaster or enemy combatants, ‘sounding the alarm’ in some fashion was crucial ..read more

Coaching staff and players rely upon an incisive, intuitive sports playbook to provide practical guidance in areas that directly impact performance. Its purpose is to align individuals with a clear team plan, resolve conflicts, and learn from every game and season to develop a smarter and more consistent culture of success. Sports playbooks are used to share new team competencies, improve performance and change behaviors ..read more

For decades, from 1911 to the late 1980’s, canaries were used in coal mines as an early warning system of rising carbon monoxide levels. When the tiny birds became ill or died, it was an alert for miners to quickly evacuate. This method of securing the safety of miners worked fairly well, if they were vigilant about checking on the poor canary. Distractions, the tedium and exertion of the work, and failure on the part of the lookout could spell disaster. Not the most foolproof security system! With technological advancements, canaries were eventually replaced with electronic carbon monoxi ..read more

The perfect storm of accelerated digital transformation, a pandemic-induced remote workforce, and escalation of cybercrime has greatly exacerbated a global shortage of skilled IT professionals. With the sharp increase in cloud computing and use of remote mobile devices, cybersecurity vulnerabilities are expanding exponentially. The increase of cyber threats coupled with the labor gap is causing many to leave the field due to stress and burnout ..read more

The Covid-19 pandemic created the compulsory need for organizations to quickly shift from a primarily business workplace environment to a mostly working from anywhere. VPN quickly became the go-to solution for securing remote workers and third-parties to corporate networks. Unfortunately, many companies found that while VPN protected user connections outside the network, it also gave them complete access to their IT assets inside the corporate network ..read more