Posted by Brian Wood on May 23, 2013 in Blog
From the May 21, 2013 Daily Transcript and based on a recent Executive Roundtable…
Business cyberthreats require continuous security updates
The cloud has defeated the “blue screen of death,” but companies are constantly taxed with updating security software and finding new ways to combat cyberthreats.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 16, 2013 in Blog
You’d think we’d learn — that the feedback loop of “ouch, that hurts, not gonna do that again” would be in full effect.
Well, uh, it seems that not everyone got the memo.
(By the way, try searching for a “sloppy” image and see just how many photo variations of a certain type of edible dish come up — so I had to revert to “messy”. Apologies…)
Emphasis in red added by me.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 8, 2013 in Blog
No matter how sophisticated the technology, the proverbial “man in the middle” is still often the weakest link when it comes to security.
Below are sobering points about the importance of remembering the fundamentals: wash your hands, say you’re sorry, and change your password.
By Caron Carlson in FierceCIO and original article by Nathan Eddy in eWeek.
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Posted by Brian Wood on May 2, 2013 in Blog
Yesterday I posted a blog about Verizon’s recent analysis of cyber security events in 2012, including cyber espionage.
In that article China came out “in the red” (har har).
Other information by Akamai, summarized below in an article by Charlie Osborne in ZDNet, paints a similar story, but not quite as dire.
Posted by Brian Wood on May 1, 2013 in Blog
Below is a very interesting article about a comprehensive investigation spearheaded by Verizon regarding cyber security, including cyber espionage and cyber criminal activity.
Key callouts:
Over 95% of cyberespionage attacks originated from China.
Even split between size of organizations being targeted (small and large).
Posted by Brian Wood on April 16, 2013 in Blog
David Linthicum is a well-regarded thought leader in the cloud computing arena.
His post below from GigaOm Pro address the “cloud security” issue straight-on — and clearly outlines the data and rationale for why public cloud services are often MORE SECURE than enterprise networks.
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Posted by Brian Wood on April 4, 2013 in Blog
Good news! The cybersecurity market is growing at 18% CAGR.
Bad news! The reason the market is growing so fast is due to the growing pace of DDoS attacks, spam, malware, botnets, and so on.
Read the summary article below by Justin Lee in The WHIR.
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Posted by Brian Wood on April 2, 2013 in Blog
Ask a bunch of IT folks where security resources should be deployed — on networks or on servers.
What do they think? Read below.
Summary by Caron Carlson in FierceCIO, original article by Jon Oltsik in Network World.
Emphasis in red added by me.
Posted by Brian Wood on March 29, 2013 in Blog, Videos
AIS CEO Tim Caulfield was interviewed by The Daily Transcript Executive Editor George Chamberlin.
The taping took place after the executive roundtable session discussing “The Total Cost of IT”.
Posted by Brian Wood on March 25, 2013 in Blog
The contributed piece below — published in DatacenterDynamics from Darren Anstee of Arbor Networks — is relevant to AIS and our customers.
Rest assured, we have MULTIPLE layers of security in place for DDoS and many other types of threats.
Please feel free to contact us if you would like to know more.
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Interested? Give us a call!
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