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Cloud Security: Balancing the Risk with the Benefits of Innovation

By Dick Weisinger

As business migration to the cloud increases, so do the the daily reports of cyber security breaches. A recent study by Corero Network Security, for example, found that more than a third of UK’s critical infrastructure organisations have not met

Security: Is Your Data Safe? Data Breaches Reach All Time High

By Dick Weisinger

Do you think your data is secure? Recent statistics may lead you to believe there is almost no point in trying to secure your data because if someone really want to see it it’s likely that there is a way.

Global Cybersecurity: Spending is up as Businesses Protect Against Data Breaches and Data Loss

By Dick Weisinger

Security has rocketed from a sidelined underfunded priority to near the top of the priority list.  Gartner is forecasting a 7 percent increase in global security spending this year, or about $86.4 billion.  High profile data breaches have many businesses

Security: Will the Equifax Breach Bring an End to Social Security Numbers?

By Dick Weisinger

On Thursday last week, Equifax announced that they had discovered in late July 2017 that their website had had been hacked. The data on their site was breached and it is likely that the personal identifying information for as many

Cyberwarfare: An Outage of a Major Cloud Service Provider Due to Cyberattacks Could be as Damaging as Hurricane Katrina

By Dick Weisinger

Hacking and cyberattacks are growing in their frequency and intensity.  They have also become increasingly more sophisticated in how they target their victims. South Carolina reports that on election day 2016 that the state’s voter registration system was hit by