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On January 9th, 2005, the Donttrip malware infection hit Northwest Hospital,1 a large medical facility in Seattle that served thousands of people. The malware clogged up the hospital’s network systems with surges of exploit network scanning. Medical operations ground to a halt as laboratory diagnostic systems couldn’t transfer data, Intensive Care Unit terminals went offline,…
Read MoreStrong security starts with understanding exactly what you need to protect and where it resides within your organization. Source link lol
Read MoreFor years I wondered why business groups would move forward with technology initiatives before fully understanding their risk exposure. Focused on the business outcome, teams always wanted to implement first and figure out the risks later. Problem is, risks are intrinsic to business outcomes. A solution is only as valuable as the information flowing through…
Read MoreIt is against business priority enablers that we align the following causation models required to present our high-level protection strategy. Causal Model 1 — Threat Landscape We captured the business priorities in the business model’s value proposition. ECS’s desire is to “offer certified and compliant cloud computing services secured with the leading security standards.”…
Read MoreAnything we put online must swim in a sea of enemies. The F5 Labs report, Lessons Learned from a Decade of Data Breaches, revealed that an average breach leaked 35 million records. Nearly 90% of the US population’s social security numbers have been breached to cyber criminals. When confronted by staggering statistics like these, it is…
Read MoreA large technology consultancy with thousands of employees spread across north America and Europe is now approaching 99% cloud deployment for their applications. The consultancy believes this is the right solution to provide flexible and secure application deployment for their widely dispersed user community. The migration from on-premises to cloud-delivery began a decade ago with…
Read MoreNow hear this: You will always have exposure. No company has the ability to mitigate all risks at all times. No company I’ve ever visited has even had all of its identified risks treated at any given point. Yet so many companies lead their security strategy with controls. They’ll make sizable investments in security appliances…
Read MoreAmong security professionals specifically, the gap is even more significant: 47% chose security and only 26% said availability. This isn’t a surprise—security has been steadily ascendant for the past three years. In 2015, availability was the clear leader at 40% over security’s 32%. But the next year the two categories were neck and neck…
Read MoreAccept that breaches are inevitable in today’s world, then take these steps to reduce the chances of a large-scale, headline-making compromise. Source link lol
Read MoreIf you’re not evaluating risk in terms of likelihood and impact, you could be focusing your security efforts in all the wrong places. Source link lol
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