Data is one of an organization’s most valuable resources, making it a popular target for cyber criminals. With more people working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic under weaker home security, Dell Technologies reports that ransomware attacks are up by 148%....
Can you hack my Instagram? When people find out I work in the cybersecurity space, this is the first question I am always asked. And it’s a valid question. We continually hear on the news about the next Fortune 500 company that has been hacked and how our personal...
For years, security practitioners have had the unenvious responsibility of architecting creative solutions to protect our end users. While there is nothing new to this, the issue is - and always will be - the moving target of...
Chances are, your car contains more lines of software code than an F-35 fighter jet, a Boeing 787 and the Mars Curiosity Rover combined. It can find gas, pay for coffee, zero in on parking spots, evade traffic and browse radio stations on every continent. And one day,...
In the last six months alone, more than 715 vulnerabilities were discovered within remote access systems, VPN connections and online RDP services, often lacking network layer authentication (NLA). The increased use of Web applications to connect to certain critical...
Guardium Insights 2.5 was released at the end of last year. It is a great new version of an exciting product from the Guardium team at IBM. We got it up and running over the holidays and started playing around with it. This article is a result of one of those...
We’ve all heard the old adage, “The only constant in life is change.” Yet, no matter how cliché this may seem, I’ve realized throughout my career, this is reality. I’ve always been impressed with how both the company I work for and the companies I work with deal...
You’re collecting activity monitoring data. Are you making the most of it? As security systems in general, and database monitoring tools specifically, mature and become more sophisticated,...