This has been an eventful year, with lots going on. This is an end of year roundup. It is the year when second-order analytics and machine learning became commonplace. The year when artificial intelligence became more than just a daydream. It has been a year of some extremely nasty attacks, ones that nearly took out …
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Update Your Policies!
It is time to update your security, data protection, disaster recovery, and all IT policies and guidance. So much has changed in the last year. Now we need to incorporate it into our IT guidance and policies. Security has changed, data protection has changed, and everything else has changed. The only constant is change. Many …
Blindly Heading Toward the Technology Abyss
Blindly heading toward the technology abyss. For years now, more and more information is moved and stored into the digital world and each and every day we keep hearing about yet another system that has been compromised and more data has been stolen or as of recent news, another ransomware attack that is shutting down computers around the world. The thing is for certain, these attacks and thefts of data are becoming more and more frequent and nefarious in nature with reports coming in that the most recent ransomware attack may not be ransomware at all but rather something much worse.
Should Vendors Be Legislated into Providing Ongoing Software Support?
The WannaCry “ransomworm” highlighted a number of issues in modern enterprise IT. Dealing with legacy software, support, maintaining good patching processes, effectively mitigating discovered vulnerabilities, responsible disclosure—all of these points have been highlighted and discussed in the aftermath of the outbreak.
Automation: Security’s Secret Weapon
In the two most recent Virtualization and Cloud Security Podcasts, we concentrated primarily on three subjects: WannaCry and its impact, multicloud security, and the role of security in the future of the data center and multicloud. We listed perfect examples of how security can reach out and grow its impact on an ever-changing organization by …
WannaCry Highlights that We’re Still Struggling to Deal with Legacy Software
There’s no need for a breathless recap of the “ransomworm” that recently spread across the globe. WannaCry was the name given to this piece of malware, and it affected hundreds of thousands of devices across more than a hundred countries.