Click to learn more about author Ken Steinhardt. If you are depending wholly on data backup for disaster recovery and business continuity, you may want to take a second look at your strategy. For mission-critical environments, data backup should be, at most, a secondary level of protection and not the primary form of data protection. […]
Cybersecurity Isn’t Going Anywhere in 2021: Expert Predictions Part Two
Click to learn more about author Samantha Humphries. As stated in part one of our 2021 cybersecurity predictions series, businesses rapidly moved much of their workforces online, and the threatscape grew, creating new opportunities for cybercrime. Most organizations — out of necessity — reduced security standards to quickly meet the demands of a newly remote […]
Is It Time for a Vulnerability Scan or Penetration Test?
Click to learn more about author Rob Chapman. How much would you pay to prevent a security breach rather than having to pay to fix it after the fact? When I ask clients that question, they tend to think about it for a few seconds. And then, in almost every case, they state a dollar […]
Data Privacy Day 2021: Tech Experts Provide Tips to Stay Safe
Click to learn more about author Jay Ryerse. Since working remotely became the norm last year, organizations have been sharing and storing even more private data online than ever before. While IT teams have been working tirelessly to keep that data secure, cybercriminals have been working just as hard to undo that security. With rising […]
2021 Predictions: Data Mobility Will Drive a New Cloud Paradigm
Click to learn more about author Steve Costigan. As we begin to think about shifting to a post-COVID-19 world, many businesses will enter a new dynamic in which digital transformation is accelerated. New applications will emerge, and IT will be central to this by enabling more instant access and portability of systems. The increased mobility […]
Knowledge Graphs as Belief System Encapsulations
Click to learn more about author Babis Marmanis. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit us, the global research community went into high gear to study the disease and to share their research in hopes of finding a solution. This increase in research output created a new challenge for scientific publishers: finding enough qualified peer-reviewers to keep […]
Cyberwarfare, Ethical Hacking, and Ransomware: 2021 Predictions
Click to learn more about author Casey Ellis. Although there was an increase in cyberattacks and misinformation in 2020 as malicious actors sought to capitalize on the pandemic and presidential election, this new threat landscape also led to a business boom for crowdsourced security as organizations looked for ways to strengthen their security posture. As […]
What Can Enterprises Do After a Ransomware Attack?
Click to learn more about author Evelyn Johnson. There were 199.7 million ransomware attacks in just the last four months. That’s nearly 25 attacks per second. The recent surge in cybercrime is being attributed to the increased digitization caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses have moved online in the last few months, and online criminals […]
The Three Most Dangerous Ransomware Delivery Vectors: RDP, VPN, and Phishing
Click to learn more about author Gerry Grealish. Successful attacks using ransomware have proliferated so much that some security researchers are developing viable second careers as “ransomware negotiators,” bargaining with attackers who hold corporate data hostage. Creative — and convincing — ransomware approaches have flourished during the lockdown era, with industry experts noting a 72 […]
2021: Three Game-Changing Data Modeling Perspectives
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Common wisdom has it that we humans can only focus on three things at a time. So, I had to cut down my January 2021 list of things of importance in Data Modeling in this new, fine year (I hope)! Looking at them from above, as we […]