Data is the most important element in today’s agile, customer oriented business environment. And IT organizations are held responsible for access to that data, its stability and its security. “It’s the data that’s the important thing,” says Diana Kelley, principal analyst with SecurityCurve, a rese...

Can you outrun the bear?Because security is not Boolean, how do you know if you are secure? If regulation and compliance are not measures of whether you are secure or not, then how do you measure if your data is secure? Security is very gray, and very complicated. But, consider this simple story for...

Projects always need to be completed and delivered under certain constraints. Traditionally, the three constraints have been referred to as the Project Management Triangle. One side of the triangle cannot be changed without affecting the others and each side represents a constraint as follows:● ...

As IT environments evolve and the plethora of data is unleashed, the methods of security responses shift in light of the changes. Here’s a quick review of how popular trends are reacting to a decade of transformation.Perimeter SecurityThe true realization with protecting data is that the perimeter i...

Data that is stored is usually thought of as data-at-rest. It is typically protected by the operating system access controls designed to permit access to only those intended and approved to access the data. Diana Kelley, of SecurityCurve, explains that the myth of the “trusted insider” assumed that ...