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Cloud Computing Security: The Road to a Secure Cloud is Likely to be a Long One

By Dick Weisinger

Security threats are becoming increasingly common and sophisticated.  A survey by Arbor Networks about Infrastructure Security found that: 30 percent of organizations report seeing Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) against their internal networks over the last year. All organizations reported seeing

Cloud Computing: Cloud-Wary Versus the Cloud-Wise Organizations

By Dick Weisinger

A recent survey by Internap, a vendor specializing in high-performance cloud infrastructure, categorized and compared the opinions of two distinct groups: the cloud-wary, or those organizations that haven’t used cloud computing, and the cloud-wise, organizations that are using cloud computing.

Technology Risk: Complex Interactions of Technology Mash-Ups Create Risk

By Dick Weisinger

Risk Information Technology Management is a strategy for organizations to properly manage the risk associated with their information technology assets.  Events which can adversely impact IT operations and productivity include data loss, financial crime and fraud, corruption and inaccessibility, IT system

Security: How the Security Leader can be more Effective

By Dick Weisinger

A new report by IBM looks at the role of the Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) and identifies how leaders in this role can be more effective. The results of the study are summarized in an Infographic. Top on mind

Big Data and Security: Analytics as a Way to Improve IT Security

By Dick Weisinger

On a near daily basis we learn of data breaches where sensitive data has been compromised. “We are being overwhelmed by all the opportunities for attack,” says Art Coviello, Executive Chairman of RSA. Existing intrusion protection tools have been found