Want to Be a CISO? Know This First.
From the outside looking in, the CISO career appears pretty glamorous: lots of responsibility, lots of influence, and lots of technology. The reality unfortunately is quite different. Sure, there’s lots...
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Six Principles for Securing Sensitive Enterprise Content in a Hyper-Connected World
Six Principles for Securing Sensitive Enterprise Content in a Hyper-Connected World
Visualize Everyday Workflow Threats to Prevent Data Breaches
Visualize Everyday Workflow Threats to Prevent Data Breaches
Protect Your Digital Assets with Unified Access to Enterprise Content Repositories
A highly secure downtown office building has multiple layers of security. Employees must show identification in order to get through the front door and their badges only grant them access...
For CISOs, a Zero Trust Security Model Won’t Work Until You Do This First
When it comes to safeguarding organizations and the valuable digital assets they produce, hold, and share, a Zero Trust security model is considered par-excellence. But zero trust comes at a...
CISOs: Focus On These Fundamentals For Long-Term Success
CISO’s clearly have an appetite for complexity. They secure and monitor an expansive ecosystem filled with sanctioned and unsanctioned systems, solutions, and devices. Most of these technologies generate, store or...
For Healthcare CISOs, There’s No Risk Quite Like This Risk
On one hand, smart devices are a blessing to healthcare, producing valuable data that fuels healthy lifestyles and improves patient care. On the other hand, these devices are a nightmare,...
Secure and Empower Employee Workflows With Enterprise Application Plugins
There’s a fine line between protecting sensitive information from data leaks and making that information easy to share with trusted partners. Make the process too difficult for employees, and they...
Think Your Data Is Hard to Protect? These Assets Are Even Harder.
In terms of sensitive information like PII, PHI, and IP, I’ve frequently said you can’t defend what you can’t see. It’s quite common for organizations to have customer data, financial...
Control Third Party Communication Apps to Protect Your Third Party Workflows
Much like a busy office building with employees and guests coming and going, it’s impossible to monitor all information leaving and entering your organization. Everyday third party communication apps, such...
If Good Help is So Hard to Find, CISOs Find This Next Part Even Harder
Cyber attacks, data breaches and compliance violations are just some of the challenges keeping CISOs up at night. While daunting, these threats are manageable, if you have the budget to...
For CISOs Who Want to Leave a Lasting Legacy, Take This Advice from William Shakespeare
It’s human nature to model the behavior of those we admire. We dress like them, copy their mannerisms, and subscribe to their philosophies. After all, imitation is the sincerest form...
Shine a Light on Third Party Threats With a CISO Dashboard
If you’ve ever fumbled around in a dark room, looking for the light switch, you know what it’s like trying to protect an organization’s sensitive content. If you had a...
The Secret to CISO Success? Do This One Thing Extremely Well
For CISOs who desire the proverbial seat at the table, they must do more than protect the business. They must intimately know the business; how it functions, what are its...
Protect Your Sensitive Content With These Ten Best Practices
Organizations are under constant attack by bad actors trying to access sensitive information like PII, PHI, and IP. Your third party workflows, the channels your employees use to share confidential...
CISOs Add Value to the Business By Doing This
If cutting costs is a business imperative, it’s a mystery why CISOs get any budget at all. Yes, the CISO role has long been synonymous with cost. Some might even...
CISOs Achieve a Holistic Cybersecurity Program Once They Address This Risk
The rules have changed. Anti-virus software and strong passwords were previously sufficient for protecting intellectual property but not anymore. A more holistic approach is necessary, meaning organizations must exercise extreme...
FedRAMP Is Your Best Cloud Bet, Even for Commercial Businesses
Think FedRAMP is just for government agencies? Think again. In fact, lots of commercial or private sector businesses use a FedRAMP authorized cloud service to protect their IP, PII, and...