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Got big data? Keep security agile and automated with APIs
Many companies are amassing big data to gain a competitive advantage with predictive analytics. What happens when the data sets get awkwardly huge and hard to manage? No problem — they just bring in special tools for processing and protecting it. Actually, this tool glut can become a big problem, according to Christian Beedgen (pictured), co-founder ...
Liberty Mutual highlights the ‘us’ in cybersecurity
There’s no “I” in security. OK, there is. But it’s the “US” now getting savvy companies through these tough cybersecurity times. Spreading security responsibilities across a company’s departments and beyond to third parties can perk up their defense posture. “There’s very little of what we do in security that’s just done by security practitioners,” said Katie Jenkins (pictured), chief information security ...
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Nation-state attacks bring companies and government together to fix security
There’s little denying that cybersecurity is in fixer-upper condition these days. Threats are getting more sophisticated, while there aren’t enough skilled professionals to fight them. Companies keep piling on threat-detection software tools to unimpressive effect. The status quo will simply not be adequate to fend off new attacks, particularly those from nation states. Companies must ...
Can cloud providers keep sky from falling on cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity is facing a gaping skills shortage. Businesses are piling on an obscene number of point solutions to compensate. The resulting heap of tools typically falls short — and they still require hands to wield them. Can cloud providers shovel businesses out of this deepening hole? We see security frameworks today with as many as 250 ...
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What makes data click? People in the office and on the street
It’s time to get real for executives hoping to make money from business data. After all the daydreaming, consulting with digital-transformation advisers and going on software shopping sprees, they have to get up and get to work. But data science — at least in its current, profit-driving iteration — is young. Companies can’t be blamed for ...
Why is SecOps buried in tools? It’s called the ‘visibility border’
As information-technology environments disperse and hybridize, visibility is becoming a greater challenge. Monitoring different cloud environments across vast networks requires sophisticated data-analyzing tools. In the security space, the situation is even hairier; companies keep piling on point solutions to monitor diverse environments while gaining little or nothing in threat detection and prevention. The problem is ...
Storage by containers for containers cures Kubernetes quandary
Container fanatics are proffering both solid grains of truth and magical-thinking bubbles to the masses. Operating on-premises and in public cloud? No problem — put them in containers, the virtualized method for running distributed software, and they’ll go anywhere. Legacy applications need a cloud makeover? Containers make them good as new. Sifting fact from fiction in ...
Smell 5G’s IoT mojo cooking in Intel’s collab kitchen
Edge-computing use cases come in a range of shapes and sizes. Localizing data for analytics, internet of things edge devices and mobile computing are a few examples. They require different approaches, which can make perfecting a one-size edge-compute recipe tricky. Could the edge perhaps meet its versatile, multilane match in 5G networking? “When you’re in ...
AWS says Gov needs procurement reform to speed up DX
Some ginormous names in the public sector — such as the U.S. Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency — have made their preference for cloud computing known. The broader reality in government, though, is that most agencies could be doing a great deal more in terms of modernizing and digitizing their computing architectures and ...
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State and local agencies get over their cloud growing pains
The public cloud is increasingly becoming safe for public-sector entities. The U.S. Department of Defense has joined the Central Intelligence Agency to entrust some of the most-sensitive data on earth to cloud providers. With these two reassuring examples, state and local governments are also wading into cloud, but not without some growing pains. Amazon Web Services Inc.’s ...