Going Down the Slippery Slope
One of the most useful things to me in trying to secure an enterprise like Columbia University is information, and the more information, the better. This means that for most…
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One of the lessons of crisis management is that you don’t make predictions during a crisis. Not to say that the recent UK vote to leave the EU (“Brexit”) is…
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Although information systems logs have been around since the early mainframe days, the concept of collecting and analyzing logs for security purposes is still a relatively new concept. From my…
DetailsVirginia Court Kills Privacy
A federal court in Virginia on June 23 may have put the final stake in the heart of constitutionally protected privacy rights online. The case itself was simple enough –…
DetailsThe Business of Security
More and more devices are being Internet-enabled daily. To securely drive an organization’s digital strategy, CISOs need to better understand business and new technologies across groups within the enterprise. It…
DetailsAll Infrastructure and the NIST Framework
Each infrastructure is critical to someone. Go ahead: ask a CIO if they are in charge of something other than “critical infrastructure” and see what they say. In fact, the…
DetailsEvaluating the Container Security Marketplace
It has been just over three years since initial release of Docker (1.0 was released in March 2013) and adoption rates are striking – or potentially alarming depending on your organization’s…
DetailsSecurity: It’s Not the Speed that Kills
My friend Randy Marchany tweeted a link to an article “Millennials Value Speed Over Security, Says Survey” that started me thinking about the apparent conflict between speed and security. If…
DetailsChief Information Security Officers Select Triumfant as Winner of Security Current’s Security Shark Tank® NYC
Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) Select Endpoint Security Provider Triumfant for Its Innovation and Importance to the Business Security Current, the premier information and collaboration community by CISOs for CISOs,…
DetailsCloud Security Company Avanan Raises $14.9 Million in Series A Round
Cloud security company Avanan announced that raised $14.9 million in a Series A round led by Greenfield Cities Holdings, L.P. with participation from existing investors, Magma VC and StageOne Ventures,…
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