Cloud Security December 15, 2022

How posture management prevents catastrophic cloud breaches

3 min read - We’ve all heard about catastrophic cloud breaches. But for every cyberattack reported in the news, many more may never reach the public eye. Perhaps worst of all, a large number of the offending vulnerabilities might have been avoided entirely through…

Application Security November 30, 2022

Securing your SAP environments: Going beyond access control

3 min read - Many large businesses run SAP to manage their business operations and their customer relations. Security has become an increasingly critical priority due to the ongoing digitalization of society and the new opportunities that attackers exploit to achieve a system breach.…

Cloud Security November 1, 2022

Why are cloud misconfigurations still a major issue?

3 min read - Cloud misconfigurations are by far the biggest threat to cloud security, according to the National Security Agency (NSA). The 2022 IBM Security X-Force Cloud Threat Landscape Report found that cloud vulnerabilities have grown a whopping 28% since last year, with…

Risk Management September 27, 2022

3 keys to an effective enterprise IT risk management strategy

2 min read - The average cost of a data breach hit a record high of $4.35 million, a 13% increase in the last two years, according to the 2022 Cost of a Data Breach report. In addition, laws are holding board members personally…

Intelligence & Analytics September 21, 2022

How IBM secured the 2022 US Open

4 min read - Throughout the US Open Tennis Championship, the infrastructure for USOpen.org and the mobile apps can see upwards of 3 million security events. While the vast majority of events are not serious, security analysts must quickly determine which are concerning to…

Data Protection July 27, 2022

What’s new in the 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report

6 min read - The average cost of a data breach reached an all-time high of $4.35 million this year, according to newly published 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report, an increase of 2.6% from a year ago and 12.7% since 2020.

Risk Management July 6, 2022

Securing cloud technology in a growing threat landscape

4 min read - Cloud technologies are becoming more and more popular. Many companies shifted their workloads and their IT infrastructures into the cloud. The advantages are clear: more flexibility and scalability, less admin overhead and often cost savings. But with those advantages also…

Security Services June 30, 2022

Is 2022 the year of secure access service edge?

4 min read - In 2022, nearly 60% of U.S. workers (whose work can be done remotely) work from home all or most of the time. Remote work coupled with the explosion of apps, APIs, devices and Internet of Things (IoT) shows us no…

Security Services June 15, 2022

Cloud native application protection platform: A utility knife for cloud security services

3 min read - Does the world need another acronym? Probably not. But it seems like one is born every day in the cybersecurity market. As a tradeoff for the brain power to recall their cryptic meanings, we should at least expect progress on…

Risk Management May 16, 2022

Avoiding the unintended consequences of strict cybersecurity policies

4 min read - Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? Or does even the left pinky know what the left ring finger is doing? Problems can easily arise when policies, including cybersecurity ones, end up being out of sync…