Drew Robb

Threat intelligence platforms take cybersecurity beyond traditional defensive strategies. Actionable threat intelligence helps IT to stay one step ahead of cybercriminals and prevent information or financial loss. This makes it possible to warn organizations about potentially malicious activity inside the network. Unusual patterns or behavior are flagged so cybersecurity analysts can find out what is […]

A number of factors are combining to make IT hiring more difficult. This includes a COVID-19 induced reticence about returning to work, insistence from companies that employees return to the office, and of course, a skills shortage. Teams Are Struggling A surge of cyberattacks has companies scrambling to step up security and IT hiring. Yet […]

There is a lot of complexity and technology that goes into business continuity planning (BCP) software and tools. Whereas disaster recovery (DR) products are involved with recovering data and applications following a massive data loss, cyberattack, or disaster, BCP software take things a stage further. What is Business Continuity Software? Business continuity software and tools […]

Container technology adoption has experienced a rapid upward surge over the past few years. But now that it has gained a serious foothold in the enterprise, questions are beginning to arise about container security. Perhaps the fundamental question is, just how secure are containers? Read more: How a Cybersecurity Incident Hurts Your Brand Stop Assuming […]

Big data tools typically seek to combine the functions of storage and analytics/BI. This is because the model of gathering data in one repository and sending it to an external analytics engine tends to break down as the volume of data soars. With so much unstructured data available from so many channels, it makes sense […]

Success breeds success, as they say. And the rich rewards being reaped by ransomware attacks have led to a surge in these incidents. According to the Cybersecurity Threatscape by Positive Technologies, ransomware is now used in 45% of all malware-related attacks against organizations. Read more: How to Handle Security Incidents and Data Breaches Hackers Target […]

Security incidents and data breaches are on the rise. The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (VDBIR) analyzed almost 80,000 security incidents around the world. More than 5,000 were classified as confirmed data breaches. About a third of the time, phishing is the attack vector that leads the attack. Next come web application attacks and system […]

The rise of the cloud has seen Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and others build mega-data centers the likes of which the world has never seen. These tech behemoths custom-built many of their facilities to include revolutionary cooling configurations, massive compute resources, and the ability to store endless amount of data. To make them greener, they added […]

Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) was an inevitable development. 20 years ago, IT budgeting might have been able to encompass the building of mirror data centers for DR purposes: just take your existing data center and build an exact replica in another city or state and Viola! Your DR needs are cared for.  Such concepts were technically […]

The business world has been enamored with the concept of digital transformation for some time. While the term first appeared in public use in the late ’40s, conversation about the concept skyrocketed in 2010 , promising early adopters a new era of availability, resilience, and performance. On the business side, the hope is that it […]

When it comes to security training in the era of near-daily phishing and ransomware attacks, can your company ever be over-prepared? Solution spending grows, but investment in people must as well. Organizations spend a huge amount on security these days. Some large banks, for example, are now allocating as much as a billion dollars annually […]

It’s become inevitable in IT. Something new appears on the horizon and the hype machine ramps up to warp speed as it drafts a new term into its sales and marketing patter. In some cases, companies relabel their existing wares to align with the new term without making any actual change to the product. Sometimes […]