A poultry processing plant is a noisy place full of people, machinery and, of course, chickens. It’s probably not the first place that comes to mind when one thinks of a modern digital enterprise, but the industry relies heavily on technology to facilitate supply chain operations, automate customer interactions and communicate between facilities. I recently…

We have come to a time when vendors and industry professionals will tell you that it is almost guaranteed that you will have a security incident. So much so that the message is not if you will be attacked but when. This kind of messaging probably feel like a scare tactic, but the sad truth…

Last week, I spent two hours with the technology leadership team of an organization in a heavily regulated industry. We’ve gotten to know each other well in recent years as we worked together on a comprehensive technology refresh that included the modernization of the organization’s network, the redesign of its data centers and the adoption…

In our work with customers, we often see that organizations work on their information and cybersecurity in a checklist format. Do I have all the things in place that I’ve been told I’m supposed to? Firewall? Check. SIEM? Check. Encryption? Check. Strong passwords? Check — and the list goes on and on in this very…

Big-name data breaches have earned headlines throughout the past 12 months, bringing issues of security and privacy to the forefront of public discourse once again. In May, hackers used malware stolen from the National Security Agency to unleash the global WannaCry ransomware attack. Around the same time, attackers exploited a vulnerability in an Equifax web…

Recently, I asked a roomful of CISOs from a variety of industries — including retail — how many of them had an incident response plan or even an incident response retainer in place. Even in that room, where every single person was in charge of safeguarding his or her organization’s data, only 20 percent raised…