TechSpective’s Compliance and Risk section addresses the strategic and operational dimensions of managing cybersecurity risk in enterprise environments — where regulatory pressure, board accountability, and business continuity all converge. The coverage treats compliance not as a checkbox exercise but as a lens for understanding organizational resilience.
Devo is a sponsor of TechSpective At face value, the idea of a security operations center (SOC) makes tremendous sense. What organization wouldn’t want a team of dedicated cybersecurity professionals monitoring the network around the clock to proactively identify issues
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Qualys is a sponsor of TechSpective How many endpoints or devices are on your network right now? First of all, are you confident that you actually know the answer to that question. Assuming you think you do, what are the
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As any student knows, you can still fail an exam even if you know the subject matter cold. To pass, you have to show up; you have to be able to assemble a coherent sentence; you must be able to
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Qualys is a sponsor of TechSpective One of the first things I saw when I arrived in Las Vegas for Black Hat—aside from the flashing lights of the banks of slot machines and the large neon “Welcome to Las Vegas”
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IT and cybersecurity are fundamental components of any company’s data security plans. Although used interchangeably, there are differences between how these terms are defined and what they involve. IT (information technology) security refers to protecting data and information systems from
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Qualys is a sponsor of TechSpective What’s on your network right now? Are you confident that you know how many endpoints and mobile devices are connected to your network at any given moment? If not, how can you ever be
Sophisticated threats remain among the main concerns of enterprises today. As environments grow in complexity, malware actors find innovative ways to infiltrate overlooked entry points in networks, hiding behind the scenes to wreak havoc without ever making a full-blown appearance.
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Strong information security management calls for the understanding of critical principles and concepts such as data classification, change management/control, and protection mechanisms. Nonetheless, such terminologies might be overwhelming at the beginning, causing most enterprises to blindly adhere to compliance requirements
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According to research from CA Technologies, over half of cybersecurity professionals, or 53 percent, have confirmed an insider attack against their own organization in the past 12 months. These insider threats have had disastrous, sometimes even tragic results, for governments
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In the UK, it’s less likely for a natural disaster to be a threat to our livelihood and our businesses than other places in the world—although in recent years the autumn floods, snowy winters and hotter summers may indicate we
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