Controlling access to data within an organization is paramount to maintaining a secure cyber environment. Using identity governance strategies can help achieve this goal.
In his role as President of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Advisory, Marc Packler will support Silent Quadrant's advising services and digital risk and resilience framework.
Risk professionals take note. Experts say the greatest cybersecurity risks to local governments and their "smart city" programs are emergency alert systems, video surveillance devices and traffic signals - a greater risk than breaches of open data, water consumption and gunshot detection technologies and more.
Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician, wrote: “Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.”
We just celebrated President’s Day. Folklore has it that during the American Revolution, George Washington was approached by an enquiring member of the press who asked: “George! George! What keeps you up at night?”
2018 brought a lot of change to small business. In the wake of many new cybersecurity threats and breaches, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Small Business Cybersecurity Act was passed into law in August 2018, and it requires NIST to provide cybersecurity resources to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to help protect them against future problems.
The growing threat of cyberattacks is a huge cause for concern. According to some of the country’s foremost intelligence experts, the U.S. may encounter a massive cyberattack on the horizon. An attack of this scale is predicted to cause damage comparable to a Category 5 hurricane, where everything from vehicles to pacemakers could be compromised. The country needs to be ready – and not just the public sector. Private businesses, regardless of size, would be taking an extreme risk if the necessary precautions are not put into place.
With approximately two million square-feet of data center infrastructure to protect, RagingWire Data Centers are leveraging security technology to address insider threats, cyber risk and more.
