Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
by Geoff Webb, director of Product Marketing at Credant Technologies Hacktivism is hardly a novel concept but there continues to be a vocal debate over what hackers are after and why they pursue specific targets. Should organizations worry in an enterprise-wide holistic sense about how to counter hacktivism or instead focus on a single set…
by Geoff Webb of Credant Technologies Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated, will produce the rankest weeds.” It’s a sentiment with which gardeners everywhere can empathize. If there’s one thing you can be certain of, when it comes to weeds, it is that they thrive on a lack of…
by Geoff Webb of Credant Technologies If you were the CISO of a large enterprise you’d already know that an IT security earthquake may well be on the way because there is a fault line that runs beneath most of the assumptions upon which we have built the last decade of security progress. That fault…
by Geoff Webb of Credant Technologies It’s the most wonderful time of the year. At least, it is according to Andy Williams. At the very least, it’s that time of the year when people in the security industry start to make predictions about what’s going to happen next year. You’d think that in the fast…
The recent announcement of the SEC providing guidance for corporations to disclose cyber security risks is interesting. It would be hard to say that’s a bad thing — if there’s anything we should be able to agree on it’s that more disclosure of breaches will help improve security. But it’s hard to know exactly what…