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Modernizing your network security strategy
From the global pandemic to recent cyberattacks, our world has faced many challenges during the past 12 months. Some of these challenges we can’t change. However, I’m pleased about the ones we can, and are changing across the cybersecurity landscape. For example, to facilitate remote work and...
Akamai + Fingerbank: How an open source community can transform security
Isn't it amazing how seemingly simple decisions can have far-reaching effects? When the Inverse team in Montreal took over PacketFence in 2008, it was an open source OS solution. They recognized the inherent value in keeping it as such. In so doing, they didn't just launch a product--they created...
Why operational resilience will be key in 2021, and how this impacts cybersecurity
The lessons we have learned during the past 12 months have demonstrated that the ability to respond to and bounce back from adversity in general, can impact the short-and long-term success of any organization. It can even dictate the leaders and laggards in any industry. When we take into...
Why operational resilience will be key in 2021, and how this impacts cybersecurity
The lessons we have learned during the past 12 months have demonstrated that the ability to respond to and bounce back from adversity in general, can impact the short-and long-term success of any organization. It can even dictate the leaders and laggards in any industry. When we take into...
5 identity priorities for 2021—strengthening security for the hybrid work era and beyond
When I outlined the five identity priorities for 2020, the world was a very different place. Since then, the COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed how organizations run their businesses. It’s also changed the way we work, learn, and collaborate. What hasn’t changed is the critical role identity...
5 identity priorities for 2021—strengthening security for the hybrid work era and beyond
When I outlined the five identity priorities for 2020, the world was a very different place. Since then, the COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed how organizations run their businesses. It’s also changed the way we work, learn, and collaborate. What hasn’t changed is the critical role identity...
Microsoft surpasses $10 billion in security business revenue, more than 40 percent year-over-year growth
I joined Microsoft a little more than six months ago—amid a global pandemic and a new norm of remote work, as well as one of the most rapidly evolving threat landscapes in history. We’ve witnessed more sophisticated attacks, like the recent SolarWinds incident, as well as an increase in attack...
Microsoft surpasses $10 billion in security business revenue, more than 40 percent year-over-year growth
I joined Microsoft a little more than six months ago—amid a global pandemic and a new norm of remote work, as well as one of the most rapidly evolving threat landscapes in history. We’ve witnessed more sophisticated attacks, like the recent SolarWinds incident, as well as an increase in attack...
How companies are securing devices with Zero Trust practices
Organizations are seeing a substantial increase in the diversity of devices accessing their networks. With employees using personal devices and accessing corporate resources from new locations in record numbers, IT leaders are seeing an increase in their attack surface area. They’re turning to Ze...
How companies are securing devices with Zero Trust practices
Organizations are seeing a substantial increase in the diversity of devices accessing their networks. With employees using personal devices and accessing corporate resources from new locations in record numbers, IT leaders are seeing an increase in their attack surface area. They’re turning to Ze...
Missing Link in a 'Zero Trust' Security Model—The Device You're Connecting With!
Like it or not, 2020 was the year that proved that teams could work from literally anywhere. While terms like "flex work" and "WFH" were thrown around before COVID-19 came around, thanks to the pandemic, remote working has become the defacto way people work nowadays. Today, digital-based work...
Missing Link in a 'Zero Trust' Security Model—The Device You're Connecting With!
Like it or not, 2020 was the year that proved that teams could work from literally anywhere. While terms like "flex work" and "WFH" were thrown around before COVID-19 came around, thanks to the pandemic, remote working has become the defacto way people work nowadays. Today, digital-based work...
Using Zero Trust principles to protect against sophisticated attacks like Solorigate
The Solorigate supply chain attack has captured the focus of the world over the last month. This attack was simultaneously sophisticated and ordinary. The actor demonstrated sophistication in the breadth of tactics used to penetrate, expand across, and persist in affected infrastructure, but many...
Using Zero Trust principles to protect against sophisticated attacks like Solorigate
The Solorigate supply chain attack has captured the focus of the world over the last month. This attack was simultaneously sophisticated and ordinary. The actor demonstrated sophistication in the breadth of tactics used to penetrate, expand across, and persist in affected infrastructure, but many...
How IT leaders are securing identities with Zero Trust
The past twelve months have been a remarkable time of digital transformation as organizations, and especially digital security teams, adapt to working remotely and shifting business operations. IT leaders everywhere turned to Zero Trust approaches to alleviate the challenges of enabling and...
How IT leaders are securing identities with Zero Trust
The past twelve months have been a remarkable time of digital transformation as organizations, and especially digital security teams, adapt to working remotely and shifting business operations. IT leaders everywhere turned to Zero Trust approaches to alleviate the challenges of enabling and...
Reprioritizing security requirements for 2021
To say 2020 was a strange year would be an understatement. Among the effects of the global pandemic were major changes in where and how people work and accelerated commitments to organizational digital transformation. Cyber attackers weren’t shy about taking advantage of the blind spots these...
Software Supply Chain Attacks: From Formjacking to Third Party Code Changes
2020 wasn’t the first year in which software supply chain attacks caused major damage, but it certainly brought them to the general public. Much has been said about the headline-grabbing nation state examples, but there is a wide spectrum of these attacks and some are commoditized. Protecting...
A breakthrough year for passwordless technology
As 2020 draws to a close, most of us are looking forward to putting this year in the rearview mirror. Since we depend even more on getting online for everything in our lives, we’re more than ready to be done with passwords. Passwords are a hassle to use, and they present security risks for users...
A breakthrough year for passwordless technology
As 2020 draws to a close, most of us are looking forward to putting this year in the rearview mirror. Since we depend even more on getting online for everything in our lives, we’re more than ready to be done with passwords. Passwords are a hassle to use, and they present security risks for users...