This is a guest blog post on behalf of Cisco, our 2021 Diamond sponsor! In today’s modern threat landscape, it’s hard to properly allocate resources where they’re needed most. Is it cryptomining, ransomware, phishing or some new threat that no one has faced before? It can be a little (or let’s be honest here), a […]
Guest Posts
Insider Risk Management Framework: A Better Way to Prevent Data Leaks with Code42
This is a guest blog post from our Gold sponsor, Code42. One year ago, an abrupt influx in remote work and collaboration tools changed the way we work, dare I say forever. With that came increased risks to company data — employees are 85% more likely to leak files today than they were pre-Covid, according […]
Closing the Gaps: How Security Confidence Fell While Budgets Rose
The following is a guest post by Secure360 Gold sponsor, Insight. Near the end of 2020, IDG Research carried out an Insight-commissioned survey of more than 200 IT and security leaders. Our goals were to learn how 2020’s challenges impacted corporate security strategies and priorities and to measure current confidence levels in respondents’ enterprise security […]
As the Number of Remote Workers Rises, Cisco Supports Customers with Expansion of Free Security Offerings
The following is a guest post by Secure360 Diamond sponsor, Cisco. During this global health crisis, normal has been redefined. We are living through a dynamic situation that has required us to reorient our personal and professional lives in ways we never have before. Companies have had to do the same. Many have taken the […]
Student360: Know before you go
Student360 is fast approaching, on Friday, January 31 at Target Northern Campus in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. All of us at Secure360 and UMSA are excited to show you what we’ve been working on, and why we’ve built this conference to have its best year yet. But there are a few things you should know before […]
Physical security risk assessment: The dream and the reality
The following is a guest post by a 2019 Secure360 Start-Up Corner sponsor, Quill Security. Physical security is fiendishly complicated. There are hundreds of threats to worry about, thousands of individuals and assets to protect and tens of thousands of security measures to consider. Nobody has the security staffing to stay on top […]
Machine learning: What it means for cybersecurity
What if your boss or client came to you with the following question: “Can you tell me how Twitter hashtags, our current road construction and the weather conditions are affecting the sales of Product X?” Could you do it? Enter: Machine learning. Machine learning is the idea of taking collections of data sets that […]
Cryptomining: A sheep or a wolf?
The following is a guest post by the 2019 Secure360 Twin Cities WiFi sponsor Cisco. One of, if not the, most prominent motivators for threat actors is money. Whether it’s botnet owners renting out their services for DDoS attacks, tech support scammers cold-calling people to convince them there are problems with their computers, or point-of-sale […]
GDPR readiness can yield business benefits beyond compliance
Most of the discussions about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have naturally focused on best practices for achieving compliance and avoiding penalties. As GDPR compliance becomes a reality this month for all companies that do business with EU residents, an often overlooked aspect has been the overall business advantage of GDPR preparedness. Because […]
Ransomware: An Enterprise Perspective
In 2016, I provided predictions in an article entitled The (Immediate) Future of Ransomware. I indicated ransomware was going to grow and find other vectors for infection outside of simply malware links. Those predictions come true on a massive scale in particular with the WannaCry and Petya outbreaks, driven by system vulnerability vectors just as […]
