Tag: IT Security

July 11, 2024

Spending sprees, acquisitions, siloed departments, and escalating security concerns have many CISOs drowning in security solutions. Here’s how to rein in the tool sprawl and ensure enhanced security as you streamline your security stack. Organizations have been on a spending […]

November 29, 2021

IT asset management (ITAM) presents one of the biggest challenges to the federal government, and the Defense Department is no exception. The lack of visibility into the technology deployed combined with a dearth of actionable data is costing the government […]

June 30, 2021

A new report from cybersecurity firm Avanan found that their customers in the IT, healthcare and manufacturing industries were facing the highest number of phishing emails. The company’s researchers examined more than 905 million emails for the 1H 2021 Global […]

July 20, 2020

Information security has long had the reputation of being unstaffed and underfinanced, and that was before COVID-19. Under the current economic downturn, pressures have become even greater, with research company Pulse reporting on June 4th that 23% of security budgets […]

November 24, 2017

Developers are often accused of not thinking about security, but Linux kernel founder Linus Torvalds has had enough of security people who don’t think about developers and end-users. After blasting some kernel developers last week for killing processes in the […]

June 9, 2017

IT modernization efforts at the Library of Congress are on track, according to June 8 testimony from CIO Bernard A. Barton Jr. at a hearing of the Committee on House Administration. The Library of Congress has had a history of […]

July 21, 2016

NASA has selected Jeanette Hanna-Ruiz as its new chief information security officer. An announcement on the NASA.gov website states that Hanna-Ruiz, who will also serve as the senior agency information security official, will take over her new role on Aug. […]

May 23, 2016

The Boston BSides conference is bursting at its seams and may have to find a new place to carry out its mission of providing inexpensive IT security training, educational sessions and informal networking where peers can share experiences and help […]

August 17, 2015

When it comes to IT security, the city of Boston would rather be proactive than reactive. That’s why the city plans to spend $3.5 million to create a next-generation firewall system. Boston devoted the money to the firewall despite never […]