Eighty-one percent of organizations told Gartner they have a multi-cloud strategy. As more organizations subscribe to cloud offerings for everything from hosted data centers to enterprise applications, the topology of the typical IT environment grows increasingly complex. Now add the proliferation of hybrid work environments, the rapid ascendance of Internet of Things (IoT) … [Read more...] about Security Resilience for a Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Future
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Embracing the future of search relevance
When looking for new opportunities to innovate and compete, companies today need to look no further than search, which has come a long way from the search bar of old. Whether you’re enabling search across integrations your business relies on or building a state-of-the-art website experience, search is on the critical path to research and discovery. The canonical search bar in … [Read more...] about Embracing the future of search relevance
Q&A on the Future of Work
Recently Richard Archdeacon, advisory CISO and Josh Green, Technical Strategist at Duo Security, gave a virtual keynote presentation at the Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2021 in Berlin where they discussed the Future of Work. We sat down with them both to get the lowdown of what they covered around this fascinating and constantly evolving area, and the key considerations they … [Read more...] about Q&A on the Future of Work
An Open Security Ecosystem with Shared Signals is the Future of Zero Trust
Zero Trust: as the name implies, is the strategy by which organizations trust nothing implicitly and verify everything continuously. This industry north star is driving different architectures, frameworks, and solutions to reduce an organization’s risk and improve their security posture. Beyond the need to enforce strong authentication and authorization to establish trust of … [Read more...] about An Open Security Ecosystem with Shared Signals is the Future of Zero Trust
Back to the Future of Firewall
Read Me First As a network and workload security strategy leader, I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of the good old network firewall. Everyone has been using and abusing the “next-generation” qualifier to describe any modern firewall product for far too long, so it is appropriate to drop this extraneous prefix and talk about what truly comes next for this … [Read more...] about Back to the Future of Firewall
The Vulnerabilities of the Past Are the Vulnerabilities of the Future
Major software vulnerabilities are a fact of life, as illustrated by the fact that Microsoft has patched between 55 and 110 vulnerabilities each month this year – with 7% to 17% of those vulnerabilities being critical. May had the fewest vulnerabilities, with a total of 55 and only four considered critical. The problem is that the critical vulnerabilities are things we have … [Read more...] about The Vulnerabilities of the Past Are the Vulnerabilities of the Future
Future Focused: A Safer Way to Expose Private Server Names
Shrink the DNS attack surface with Auth-DoH Imagine you could keep your building location private by making employees invisible as they traveled from home to office. (My inspiration: Loki, the Marvel superhero.) Nobody can see the employee’s destination. There’s a hitch, though. Before opening the door, you’ll need to make sure the person is authorized to enter—not some random … [Read more...] about Future Focused: A Safer Way to Expose Private Server Names
Future Focused: Encryption and Visibility Can Co-Exist
Privacy and security are in constant tension. Hiding internet activity strengthens privacy—but also makes it easier for bad actors to infiltrate the network. In fact, 63% of threats detected by Cisco Stealthwatch in 2019 were in encrypted traffic. The European Union is concerned enough that it drafted a resolution in November 2020 to ban end-to-end encryption, prompting outcry … [Read more...] about Future Focused: Encryption and Visibility Can Co-Exist
Secure Network Analytics (Stealthwatch) Then, Now and Beyond – Part 3: Into the Future
(2020 – Future) Welcome to the third and final installment in our series looking at the past, present and future of Secure Network Analytics (formerly Stealthwatch). Today, we get to talk about the future. In parts one and two of this series, we covered Secure Network Analytics’ entry into the market in 2001, its evolution as a product and a company, and how that led to Cisco … [Read more...] about Secure Network Analytics (Stealthwatch) Then, Now and Beyond – Part 3: Into the Future
The future of security operations
“Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.” The Star Trek fans amongst our readers may well recognise that Spock quote. And it’s a line that I thought of whilst I was chatting to my latest guest on the Security Stories podcast, Gabriel Gumbs, Chief Innovation Officer at Spirion. Gabe’s role is to lead the charge … [Read more...] about The future of security operations