Security

Even if you’re taking a “lift and shift” approach to migrating applications and data to the cloud, you can’t take a lift and shift approach to migrating your security strategy to the cloud. The [...]

Managing user access privileges is one of the most important ways you can improve your information security. Role based access control (RBAC) helps you simplify privilege management by [...]

Today’s data center looks very different than it used to. Many times, there isn’t a data center at all. Security strategies need to match this new design and provide comprehensive protection to [...]

The risks to data security from the cloud came into sharp focus in 2019 when data belonging to a major bank, Capital One, was stolen by a former AWS employee. If you’ve been relying on your cloud [...]

You can’t abolish your biggest mobile security risk, because it’s the people who use the mobile devices. Human nature can cause many problems: Too trusting People fall for flattery, people fall [...]

Don’t let shiny new security tools lead you to discard older, effective methods. Any sound information security strategy should combine both old and new security tools to provide a comprehensive, [...]

There is no such thing as perfect safety in the world. Not in the real world and not in the physical world. In fact, the risks—which have never been small—are getting worse. When one security [...]

Your most powerful users are the most trusted. Their privileged accounts give them access to administrator functions that can change how your systems behave. When stolen, these accounts give [...]

Firewalls are a first line of defense, but they’re only a first line. The threats to networks today are smart, persistent, and ever-changing, and it’s inevitable that an attack will eventually [...]

Active Directory is one of the foundational technologies IT departments rely on. Active Directory itself is dependent on replication that ensures all controllers receive information about changes [...]