Cybersecurity has reached the boardroom. After years of clamoring for attention, the CEOs of U.S.-based corporations told the Conference Board that cybersecurity is their top external concern for 2019, ranking it above economic challenges, trade threats and political instability. Unfortunately, while executives are paying increased attention to security, the message they receive is often unclear….

In our previous blog post, we took an in-depth look at why organizations are vulnerable. Now, we’ll take a step forward and move from an academic conversation toward a more practical and actionable path. According to Gartner, through 2022, at least 95 percent of cloud security failures are predicted to be the customer’s fault. Yikes!…

A few months ago, I received a call from a CDW customer in the Midwest. The customer was in a rush and got right to the point of the call: “We need a penetration test.” When I asked for more details about the type of testing required, the reply was simple: “We just need a…

Most organizations have experienced the stomach-turning feeling of a security breach. The story generally goes the same way every time: An attacker discovers a previously undetected flaw in a security control and manages to leverage it to compromise other systems. After a lengthy investigation, the organization’s cybersecurity team discovers the root cause of the compromise…