Tag: Cloud Compliance

Chaos and confusion reign with existing firewall Infrastructure; hybrid cloud and next-gen architectures promise to add even more complexity and risk Overland Park, KS and DALLAS (August 15, 2018) – FireMon, a global leader in network security policy management, today released its 2018 State of the Firewall report. The fourth annual study polled 334 ...

A Cloud-First Approach to Managing Financial Communications Data The current regulatory framework, which has grown more complex since the 2008 financial crisis, requires more information to be recorded. Regulators have come to realize that in most cases of misconduct, voices may be the only evidence of bad behavior they can ...

Key Considerations When Choosing a Solution Security embedded in an SD-WAN-enabled appliance cannot simply be downgraded to perfunctory specs and held hostage to SD-WAN’s greater mission of pushing packets through pipes as seamlessly as possible. In today’s cyber-threat environment, SD-WAN-plus-security offerings need to be assessed more carefully in order to ...

Data Privacy Becomes King Cloud security and compliance laws surrounding personal information will continue to proliferate as governments attempt to protect their citizens’ private data. With a heightened consumer awareness of the need for data privacy, any violation of trust will damage an organization. Follow these recommendations to avoid fines, ...

Data Privacy Hits A High Price in Assuming New Technology Solutions In this article, Mike Mason reconciles the challenges of maintaining regulatory requirements of data privacy within cloud computing technology. It is critical to keep cloud applications compliant, while meeting the increased demand for cloud-based technology providers. Gartner predicts that ...

Adopting New Strategies to Increase Agility In order to capitalize on cloud velocity, organizations must adopt new approaches and tools developed for the cloud. Failing to do this will delay migration, weaken overall security posture and cost time and money, losing the agility they seek. Organizations are in the midst ...

As Audit teams start thinking about their 2018 plans, being able to identify new trends in emerging risk areas that threaten to disrupt enterprise performance over the next year is critical. This explains 12 risks, connected by four major risk themes, that organizations need to have on their radar and ...

Using EMM to Support Remote Teams and Ensure Safety Companies are becoming more open to the remote worker, seeing the benefits in increased employee productivity, efficiency, morale and engagement. However, along with these benefits to employer and employee come a new set of managerial challenges and security protocols, particularly in ...

Key Considerations to Facilitate Smooth M&As As the list of cybersecurity breaches grows daily and headlines grow more shocking – think Home Depot, Target, Anthem, Yahoo!, WannaCry – the importance of cybersecurity in M&A due diligence has correspondingly increased. Do you want to purchase a company that’s been compromised? How ...

A Compliance Officer’s Role in Mitigating This Risk Mobile computing presents a unique set of challenges to compliance officers. Our devices are truly omnichannel and not just dedicated to one aspect of our lives.  No organization can be fully compliant with data protection regulations when its staff carry personal devices with ...

Enterprises’ move to the cloud brings the potential for improved security and reliability, but it also can cause unease for some IT professionals who are accustomed to operating servers. Effective workload security can provide the foundation for successful cloud transformation.