2018 IT Security goals. Often organizations subscribe to a wait-and-see posture to IT Security, but the risks of this approach echos with each news headline that it is best to be 'Prepared on Purpose.' Read the 2018 IT Security worry list here. Just today Forever 21 reported the findings of its November Data Security Breach. 'Prepared on Purpose' is brilliance in motion. It is the awareness of past, present and future...
Risks often gives us the 'high' we crave. Compliance Risks, though, should not be one of them. Rachael, my three year old, is big on risks. It is her fingerprint on the universe, I am convinced. She scares me. a lot. According to the Ponemon Institute's research, that reveals the 'true cost of Compliance,' the average cost for an organization that experience non-compliance related problems is almost $9.4 million dollars. Typically risks hold the...
I am a traditional girl in many respects. Old school. My now husband was being graded against a stringent list of do's and don'ts which he knew nothing about. In retrospect, it was my unconscious and feeble attempt at 'security.' I will certainly pass on some of my beliefs to my daughter. But admittedly, many of my beliefs are definitely out dated. Tired. Today's Cyber scope does not allow for the retrospective, the retroactive nor the...
Data respect cannot be compared to the respect for the sacrifice of those who gave their lives in defense of our freedom. By no means, is this post, even an attempt to make that comparison. Unfortunately, forgetting is one of our signature traits as human beings. We forget some of the most significant milestones, accomplishments and sacrifice. We forget the pain and suffering of others while we indulge in our self made cocoons. Unless...
Network Security Orchestration and its impact on your network. You may not be a fan of the Opera and care very little for the Symphony, yet, I am confident, that your humanity appreciates all that is beauty. Network Security Orchestration delivers on one type of beauty. "Beauty is subjective." Sometimes. But a good night's sleep is always beautiful; harmonious relationships while you sleep, even more. Shouldn't your Network...
