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Debunking The Myth That Greater Compliance Makes IT More Secure

Debunking The Myth That Greater Compliance Makes IT More Secure

By Louis Columbus on June 22, 2020

Bottom Line:  Excelling at compliance doesn’t protect any business from being hacked, yet pursuing a continuous risk management strategy helps. With a few exceptions (such as spearphishing), cyberattacks are, by nature, brutally opportunistic and random. They are driven to disrupt operations at best and steal funds, records, and privileged access credentials at worst. Conversely, the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services Security, Centrify, Cyberattacks, Identity-Centric PAM, Identity-Centric Privileged Access Management, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, Palo Alto Networks

Why Cybersecurity Needs To Focus More On Customer Endpoints

Why Cybersecurity Needs To Focus More On Customer Endpoints

By Louis Columbus on December 10, 2019

Cloud-based endpoint protection platforms (EPP) are proliferating across enterprises today as CIOs and CISOs prioritize greater resiliency in their endpoint security strategies going into 2020. Gartner predicts that Global Information Security and Risk Management end-user spending is forecast to grow at a five-year CAGR of 9.2% to reach $174.5 billion in 2022, with approximately $50B […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Absolute Persistence, Absolute Resilience, absolute software, Absolute Software (TSE: ABT), asset management, Christy Wyatt CEO of Absolute Software, Cloud-based endpoint protection platforms (EPP), cybersecurity, endpoint security, gartner, IT Asset Management, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, Morgan Stanley Research, Palo Alto Networks

5 Ways To Demystify Zero Trust Security

5 Ways To Demystify Zero Trust Security

By Louis Columbus on March 24, 2019

Bottom Line: Instead of only relying on security vendors’ claims about Zero Trust, benchmark them on a series of five critical success factors instead, with customer results being key. Analytics, Zero Trust Dominated RSA Analytics dashboards dominated RSA from a visual standpoint, while Zero Trust Security reigned from an enterprise strategy one. Over 60 vendors claimed […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Akamai, Capgemini, Centrify, Cisco, Ledios Cyber, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, MobileIron, Palo Alto Networks, RSA Conference, Symantec, Trend Micro, Zero Trust Privilege, Zero Trust Security, ZTP

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Digital Transformation’s Missing Link Is Zero Trust

By Louis Columbus on February 18, 2019

Enterprises will invest $2.4T by 2020 in digital transformation technologies including cloud platforms, cognitive systems, IoT, mobile, robotics, and integration services according to the World Economic Forum. IDC predicts worldwide spending on the technologies and services that enable the digital transformation of business practices, products, and organizations will reach $1.97T in 2022. Digital transformation software and services […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Centrify, cybersecurity, Louis Columbus' blog, MobileIron, Palo Alto Networks, Privileged Access Management (PAM), World Economic Forum, Zero Trust Privilege, Zero Trust Security

86% Of Enterprises Increasing IoT Spending In 2019

86% Of Enterprises Increasing IoT Spending In 2019

By Louis Columbus on November 30, 2018

Enterprises increased their investments in IoT by 4% in 2018 over 2017, spending an average of $4.6M this year. 38% of enterprises have company-wide IoT deployments in production today. 84% of enterprises expect to complete their IoT implementations within two years. 82% of enterprises share information from their IoT solutions with employees more than once […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Centrify, Cisco, F5, Idaptive, industrial internet of things, Intelligent Enterprise Index, Internet of Things, IoT, Louis Columbus' blog, Palo Alto Networks, Zebra Technologies, Zero Trust Privilege, Zero Trust Security

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How Machine Learning Quantifies Trust & Improves Employee Experiences

By Louis Columbus on April 11, 2018

Bottom Line: By enabling enterprises to scale security with user behavior-based, contextual intelligence, Next-Gen Access strategies are delivering Zero Trust Security (ZTS) enterprise-wide, enabling the fastest companies to keep growing strong.   Every digital business is facing a security paradox today created by their proliferating amount of applications, endpoints and infrastructure on the one hand […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged AI, Centrify, cybersecurity, machine learning, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Next-Gen Access, Palo Alto Networks, Verizon Mobile Security Index 2018 Report, Zero Trust Security

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-22

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-22

By Dennis Moore on July 22, 2012

Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Two IPOs come out strongly after Facebook IPO disappointment – Kayak and Palo Alto Networks. Google Nexus 7, with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, is becoming the first general purpose worthy competitor to the Apple iPad. Workday files for IPO, using JOBS Act to avoid […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, android, apple, BI, Big Data, BigData, Cloud, Concur, Dennis Moore, Ensw, google, hp, Infor, Informatica, IPO, Kayak, Linux, M&A, mergers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mergers And Acquisitions, microsoft, MSNBC, netsuite, news, oracle, Palo Alto Networks, SaaS, salesforce.com, samsung, sap, Skire, SQL Server, SQLServer, Tripit, VMware, workday, Yahoo, yammer

Wednesday’s Whispers: People Whispers – March 2010

By R "Ray" Wang on March 31, 2010

PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES* As always, thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, and we’ve worked together in the past, don’t hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In. Ashesh Badani became Sr. […]

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