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Independent Research Firm Ranks CWS Vendors in Report: McAfee a Leader
Forrester, a leading independent research firm in the field of cybersecurity, recently published its inaugural WAVE report on Cloud Workload Security. We’re proud to report that McAfee was named a leader. The Forrester Wave evaluates and ranks products in the CWS category against 30 pre-defined criteria. The report provides security ...
Securing the Unsecured: State of Cybersecurity 2019 – Part II
Recently the Straight Talk Insights team at HCL Technologies invited a social panel to discuss a critical question at the center of today’s digital transitions: How do companies target investments and change the culture to avoid being the next victim of a cyberattack? In Part I of the series, we ...
Securing the Unsecured: State of Cybersecurity 2019 – Part I
Recently the Straight Talk Insights team at HCL Technologies invited a social panel to discuss a critical question at the center of today’s digital transitions: How do companies target investments and change the culture to avoid being the next victim of a cyberattack? Alongside some fantastic leaders and technology strategists ...
Security is Shifting to a Unified Cloud Edge
More than 95% of companies today use cloud services, and 83% store sensitive data in the cloud. This data is traveling via a larger and more diverse group of devices than ever before, to and from an ever-growing list of cloud services. More importantly, it is moving in ways you ...
19 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2019
Now well into its second decade of commercial availability, cloud computing has become near-ubiquitous, with roughly 95 percent of businesses reporting that they have a cloud strategy. While cloud providers are more secure than ever before, there are still risks to using any cloud service. Fortunately, they can be largely ...
Test Your Knowledge on How Businesses Use and Secure the Cloud
Security used to be an inhibitor to cloud adoption, but now the tables have turned, and for the first time we are seeing security professionals embrace the cloud as a more secure environment for their business. Not only are they finding it more secure, but the benefits of cloud adoption ...
Using Intelligent Data Controls to Accelerate Business
In our previous blog post, Getting Started with Cloud Governance, enterprise security architect Wayne Anderson discussed the challenge of understanding the “sanctioned” path to the cloud and how governance was the initial building block for cloud security. To understand the sanctioned path, we must have visibility into our overall use ...
Getting Started with Cloud Governance
Governing cloud security and privacy in the enterprise is hard, but it’s also critical: As recently noted in a blog by Cloud Transformation Specialist Brooke Noelke, security and complexity remain the two most significant obstacles to achieving enterprise cloud goals. Accelerating cloud purchases and tying them together without critical governance ...
Is Cloud Service Provider-Native Security ‘Good Enough’ For Your Cloud Transformation Program’s Goals?
Several times lately, CIOs and CISOs have asked me why the security toolset they get for “free” from their cloud service providers isn’t enough. Sure, it might not be the best … but isn’t it good enough for the program’s success? It’s true that we don’t often need the Cadillac. But ...
Are Your Employees Using Your Data in the Shadows?
You have superstar employees who run your business like it’s their own. They use new apps to collaborate with coworkers, vendors, and customers to get work done when it needs to get done. They’re moving your business closer and closer to the cloud. Sounds fantastic! Let them do their thing! ...
