Tag: Cloud Compliance

Lesley Maea suggests compliance today could take a cue from Marie Kondo in her Netflix hit, "Tidying Up." To remain safe and secure, use an intranet as a single source of truth. Yes, you read that right: an intranet. Put everything in one place. Then, you can see what you ...

The latest global survey of C-level executives and directors of the macroeconomic, strategic and operational risks that organizations face indicates an increasingly risky year ahead. Protiviti’s Jim DeLoach discusses the risks keeping executives up at night. Overall, 825 C-level executives and directors participated in this year’s global study, with 45 ...

2018 demonstrated that cyber threats are far from being tackled. Coalfire’s Adam Shnider discusses how in 2019, we can expect compliance and governmental bodies to set the bar even higher to protect data. While it may appear that enterprise security teams and compliance frameworks have stepped up their game to ...

Ensuring Both with Cloud Enterprise Content Services For many years, there has been a fear among IT professionals that the user freedom and empowerment offered by collaborative systems would make it difficult to adhere to processes and enforce compliance standards. However, in today’s digital world, enterprises need both compliance and ...

Managing Risk in a Shifting Regulatory Environment Given the frequency of significant data breaches, organizations must be increasingly vigilant about data protection. Vibhav Agarwal, Director of Product Marketing at MetricStream, offers this primer on how enterprises can better secure their data in the cloud. In today’s information age, a daunting ...

The Challenge of Managing Hybrid Environments The cloud presents many advantages for businesses, but with those advantages also come compliance challenges. This article examines the findings of recent research which suggest compliance woes are putting the brakes on cloud computing’s onslaught. Is your company prepared to fully address your compliance ...

Thoughts on Increasing Cyber Resiliency Companies’ adoption of new technologies is outpacing their ability to protect against evolving cybersecurity threats. It used to be said that it’s not a question of IF an organization will be breached, but WHEN. Jim DeLoach suggests that companies either know they’ve been breached or ...

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 ...