By: Chris Merritt - Dir. Solutions Marketing
Market Impact of a Data Breach
May 13th, 2013
In my Changeup post the other day, I mentioned that my colleague Paul Henry had saved an organization an estimated $10M (or roughly 15%) in market cap by showing that an intrusion had no material impact. That got me to thinking: what *is* the typical market impact of a breach? And furthermore, how good are [...]
Not reporting a data breach – your reputation may suffer but what about your pocketbook?
July 23rd, 2012
How would you feel if a restaurant, hotel or retailer knew your information had been compromised, but you didn’t find out until fraudulent charges started appearing on your credit card? Or if a company you had invested tens of thousands of dollars in didn’t let you know that it had suffered a data breach? Not [...]
By: Chris Merritt - Dir. Solutions Marketing
By the Numbers: US Healthcare Data Breaches
July 12th, 2012
The last time we looked at healthcare data breaches was a couple of years ago, so I thought maybe we should take another look. A listing of breaches of unsecured protected health information (PHI) affecting 500 or more individuals is maintained, as mandated by the HITECH Act, by the US Department of Health and Human [...]
By: Chris Merritt - Dir. Solutions Marketing
Vermont Updates Data Breach Notification Laws
June 13th, 2012
Updates to the Vermont Data Protection and Breach Notification laws came into effect in May 2012. As readers of my posts know (yo G!), although I seem to play one in this blog, IANAL. With that said, since these laws seem to cover any business in the US and beyond, you should take a quick [...]
By: Paul Zimski - IT Security Expert
Security vs. Operations
April 18th, 2012
Time and again, we’ve heard IT teams lament over how security continues to challenge the operational aspects of an organization. And these issues will not likely resolve themselves. While there isn’t a silver bullet that will “fix” this situation, there are best practices that will definitely improve security and increase operational efficiency. For some tips, we [...]
By: Paul Zimski - IT Security Expert
Security and Operations: Back to the Basics
April 12th, 2012
We’re back with part II in our podcast series on security versus operations with Mike Rothman, president and analyst with Securosis. In this post, Mike and I will discuss getting back to the basics of endpoint security, as small and mid-size organizations should not even consider employing in-depth cyber security measures until they have the [...]
A 2011 RSA Security Conference Retrospective – Vendor Buzzword Analysis
February 21st, 2011
The 2011 RSA Security Conference came to an end last week, and this year, the most memorable thing for me was the San Francisco dim sum. I didn’t see or hear anything ground breaking on the exhibit floor, but there were definitely a few notable shifts on the “security buzzword” scene. From my perspective, “compliance” [...]
By: Chris Merritt - Dir. Solutions Marketing
Critical Infrastructure Protection
July 8th, 2010
Last week I participated in an interesting roundtable discussion with Michael Rasmussen from Corporate Integrity and my fellow blogger Paul Henry. We were discussing how to secure the nation’s critical infrastructure – a topic which is relevant to organizations which own or operate critical infrastructure (which, according to the 2009 National Infrastructure Protection Plan (PDF), [...]
Lessons from the Road…Tokyo, London, Sydney: Part II
June 23rd, 2010
As I mentioned in my last post, after quite a bit of overseas travel recently, I observed a few trends that apply globally – at its core, what trends are driving technology trends in IT environments, today? In addition to the platform-centric approach being firmly planted both here and overseas and the efficiency of agents [...]
Lessons from the Road…Tokyo, London, Sydney: Part I
June 16th, 2010
A few things I learned while on the road in the past couple of weeks: 1. The platform-centric approach is firmly planted both here and overseas; 2. The efficiency of agents on the endpoint is increasingly under the microscope; 3. Application whitelisting is truly hitting a global tipping point; 4. Compliance costs continue to be [...]
FREE Scanner
Free eBook
Over 80% of IT Directors say that mobile devices represent a security threat.
