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Security: Employee Access to Data Too Often Far Exceeds What They Need to Know

By Dick Weisinger

Employees today often have access to information in their organizations that goes way beyond really what they need to be able to see.  A Ponemon survey sponsored by Varonis found that to be true across 71 percent of organizations.  And only 22

Security: The Central Barrier that’s Blocking SMB Technology Adoption

By Dick Weisinger

How are businesses using technology and what challenges do businesses have that prevent them from adopting new technology? That’s the question asked recently by Dell in their first Global Technology Adoption Index (GTAI), a survey of how technology is being used

BYOD and Security: Balancing the Risks and Rewards

By Dick Weisinger

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is a policy that increasingly businesses are finding that they need to support, but one that comes with challenge and risk.  Gartner calls Mobile Device Diversity and Management as one of the Top 10 Strategic Technology

Cloud Computing Security: Businesses Aren’t Proactive in Securing their Cloud Resources

By Dick Weisinger

Almost three quarters of organizations say that they’re having a hard time trying to protect sensitive data stored in the cloud, and nearly half say that it’s very difficult to restrict end-user access to data in the cloud.  70 percent

Security: Securing Application Run Time Engines to Thwart Attacks

By Dick Weisinger

Today enterprise security  is heavily focused on protecting data by preventing intrusion.  A Gartner “Maverick Research” report finds that 23 times the effort and resources are being spent on perimeter security compared to what’s being spent on application security. Joseph