Businesses will use more than 4 billion Internet of Things devices this year, and will deploy another 3.4 billion by 2020, Gartner predicts. About the only things growing faster are the challenges of provisioning, protecting and managing all those connected devices. Intent-based networking (IBN) is an ideal way to overcome those challenges. It uses a…
In my first blog post on securing against Wi-Fi Protected Access vulnerabilities, I talked about the fact that attacks are still being developed to take advantage of weaknesses found in WPA/WPA2, which are known and have been around for a while. This post continues that discussion, getting into how exactly most attacks are carried out…
The typical cybersecurity team is overwhelmed with data and too understaffed to manage the flow of information and events that come as part of the modern threat landscape. Security automation and orchestration provide these teams with a fighting chance to work their way through an almost insurmountable volume of work to detect, eradicate and recover…
At a recent IT conference, Cyber Security Chicago, more than 4,000 cybersecurity professionals sat in on presentations covering everything from cyberattacks in the Internet of Things era to third-party vulnerability assessments and DevSecOps. My job provides me the opportunity to attend many events like this one, and I always make it a point to seek…
Those of us of a certain age share memories of the classroom overhead projector: the wet erase markers; the crank that provided a seemingly endless supply of fresh transparencies; the teacher moving the cart closer and farther away from the screen to bring the image into focus. Projectors have come a long way in recent…
October means that National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is back, and it’s always interesting to see what’s new in the security landscape from year to year. One thing that’s changed since last October is that the global Infrastructure as a Service market grew another 29.5 percent, to $23.5 billion, according to Gartner. And when we mark…
