When it comes to data security, the New York State Department of Financial Services has been taking a long hard look at the banking sector and it isn’t all that happy with what it has been seeing.
Two of the more prominent trends in the IT world are the continuing growth of cloud computing and the increasing use of data analytics as a valuable business tool. Both of these areas can play a prominent role in information security efforts—and indeed to some extent they already are, according to recent research reports.
Corporate security leaps ahead with centralized scanning for endpoints, Exchange security, seamless deployment
Securing endpoints has always required balancing context and isolation. Context is about knowing what is happening within an endpoint, while isolation is about the security mechanism being separated from the endpoint that it is protection.
While rare, every now and then, major cloud providers such as Amazon must ponder interrupting service to reboot parts of their environments. It is a curious thing, and leads to asking, “Why?”
As cloud initiatives shift from cost savings efforts to strategic transformations of IT and the business, CISOs are finding that in many ways they need to completely reimagine their security controls to keep up.
