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Accenture’s Zoran Tackles Digital Identity Failings
May 09, 2019, by Mike SmartNelsonHall recently visited Accenture at its Cyber Fusion Center in Washington D.C. to discuss innovations in its cyber resiliency offerings and the recent launch of its new digital identity tool, Zoran. Failings of existing role-based access (RBA) Typical identity and access management (IAM) systems control users’ access to data based on their role, i.e. position, compe[...]
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Quick Takeaways from IBM European Analyst & Advisory Exchange (vlog)
Nov 23, 2017, by Mike SmartMike Smart reports directly from IBM’s European Analyst & Advisory Exchange 2017 with some quick take-aways regarding IBM’s transition from systems integrator to services integrator and its business resiliency services.[...]
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How IT Services Vendors Can Help Organizations Meet GDPR
Nov 09, 2017, by Mike SmartIn this, the second of two articles on GDPR, I look at how IT services vendors can help companies meet GDPR compliance in several areas. You can read the first article, ‘The Impact & Benefits of GDPR for Organizations’, here. Application services Application services can help organizations in ensuring that new and legacy applications meet the GDPR articles perta[...]
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The Impact & Benefits of GDPR for Organizations
Oct 12, 2017, by Mike SmartIn this, the first of two articles on GDPR, I look at how the regulation is set to impact companies, and at the benefits of compliance beyond simply avoiding penalties. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted in April 2016 and will be put into force on 25 May 2018. The unified and enforceable laws contained in the regulation replace the o[...]
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Atos’ Use of Machine Learning for the Prescriptive SOC
Aug 01, 2017, by Mike SmartWhen NelsonHall spoke to Atos earlier in the year about its managed security services, there was a clear push to move clients away from reactive security to a predictive and prescriptive security environment, so not only monitoring the end-to-end security of a client but also performing analytics on how the business and its customers would be affected by threats. Atos’ “S[...]
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IBM and the Road to Cognitive Security
Jul 18, 2017, by Mike SmartEvery day the sheer amount and complexity of cybersecurity information that security analysts are required to sift through increases. Analysts arrive at the start of each day, catch-up on recent attacks and research cybersecurity news, and are thrown into analyzing security incidents: going down the rabbit hole of reviewing data flows, finding outliers, investigating IPs, searching through both in[...]
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WannaCry and the Need for IT Spend on Cyber
May 16, 2017, by Mike SmartLast Friday morning, the largest ransomware cyber attack infected an unprecedented number of machines across organizations worldwide. The ransomware named WannaCry demanded $300 in Bitcoins to be paid in three days, otherwise the ransom would double. If no payment was made after seven days, data would be deleted forever. WannaCry ransom message Each time this ran[...]
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SOC 3.0 and Proactive Security Management: the HP Aspiration
Oct 20, 2014, by Mike SmartNelsonHall recently attended HP’s security analyst day in London. The session provided a deep dive into HP's threat intelligence and the application of this intelligence into its security products line. Concerns about security issues are expanding beyond CSOs/CISOs to the rest of the C suite, even commanding the attention of CEOs. HP highlighted that Conversation[...]