Tag: INFORMATION SECURITY

April 10, 2024

On March 30, the US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) released its review of the July 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online intrusion by the Chinese state group Storm-0558, blasting Microsoft for its shoddy security practices and saying the incident “was preventable […]

May 31, 2023

Improperly deactivated and unmaintained Salesforce sites are vulnerable to threat actors who can gain access to sensitive business data and personally identifiable information (PII) by simply changing the host header. That’s according to new research from Varonis Threat Labs, which […]

October 20, 2022

The vast majority of organizations lack confidence in securing their data in cloud, while many companies acknowledge they lack sufficient security even for their most sensitive data, according to a new report by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). The CSA […]

June 1, 2022

A global survey conducted by Coleman Parkes for Dynatrace has found that muticloud deployments are making IT security more complex. The survey, based on a poll of 1,300 chief information security officers (CISOs) in organisations with more than 1,000 employees, […]

March 1, 2022

Want to know who has the most stressful job in the enterprise these days? It’s the CISO, or chief information security officer. This is typically a senior-level executive responsible for developing and implementing information security programs and the person first […]

October 4, 2021

Marketing technology, or ‘martech’, keeps getting more complex and more vital to the way companies do business. For many enterprises, the Salesforce cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform is a centerpiece of the martech strategy. Salesforce is the CRM market […]

September 9, 2021

In most enterprise stacks today, the database is where all our secrets wait. It’s part safe house, ready room, and staging ground for the bits that may be intensely personal or extremely valuable. Defending it against all incursions is one […]

August 23, 2019

The recent Capital One data breach affecting 100 million customer accounts was blamed on a cloud server misconfiguration, which is among several common problems, a survey reveals. A study from security firm Tripwire found that 84% of organisations find maintaining […]

August 15, 2018

Information security and compliance company Qualys Tuesday rolled out its new cybersecurity platform for MSPs and consultants. Qualys Consulting Edition delivers MSPs, consultants and consulting firms the ability to perform multiple ongoing vulnerability assessment engagements from a single, centralized and […]

August 9, 2018

People around the world are becoming increasingly connected with smart devices. Sending and receiving massive amounts of data back and forth, we rely on the transfer and storage of data on a daily basis. Hackers and cyber attackers know this […]

July 11, 2018

2017 saw over 2 dozen major security breaches in 2017. While the public may have grown numb to the number and constant stream of data breaches reported, outrage has been building around the delays in accompanying disclosures of those breaches […]

April 10, 2018

Enthusiasm for cloud computing has as much to do with economics as technology. Growth in the number of applications and the volume of data that must be managed have made datacenters a major item of corporate expense. Figuring out the […]