The technology being used in today’s businesses is more powerful than ever. These tools and systems are helping to increase productivity and drive digital transformation. But this increased visibility of IT and its key part in business now sees it under greater scrutiny, especially when it comes to trusting those with access to this now critical infrastructure.
Cloud computing offers huge advantages of flexibility, value and speed when adopted in businesses. But for highly regulated and security conscious financial institutions there are clearly potential issues.
Security information and event management (SIEM) solutions have become a key weapon in the arsenal to combat threats to your IT security. SIEM tools work by collecting and analysing data from specific systems and across your network.
Chad Fulgham is a man who knows a bit about IT. The former Wall Street exec was CIO of the FBI and is now a strategist at IT management vendor Tanium.
If you ever needed convincing that investing in educating your users about data security was worthwhile take a look at this research from Identity Access Management vendor SailPoint. In a survey of a 1000 people, 1 in 7 said they would reveal their password for as little as $150.
