Illuminating the intersection of physical and cyber security

Steven Bowcut

Yesterday, DivvyCloud, a leading provider of security and compliance automation for cloud and container environments, released its 2020 Cloud Misconfigurations Report. Today, the most circulated security news story is about the personal data of more than 10 million people exposed in a breach of MGM’s cloud servers. The MGM hack […]

Breaches Caused by Cloud Misconfigurations on the Rise

This entry was posted in Cloud Security Cybersecurity Data Protection and tagged DivvyCloud Shared Assessments on February 20, 2020 by Steven Bowcut

According to a recent study entitled, “State Of Enterprise IoT Security In North America: Unmanaged And Unsecured” commissioned by Armis: 69% of enterprises have more IoT devices on their networks than computers 84% of security professionals believe IoT devices are more vulnerable than computers 67% of enterprises have experienced an […]

Physical Security System Cyber Protection: An Interview with Johnson Controls

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Physical Security and tagged Johnson Controls on February 19, 2020 by Steven Bowcut

Malwarebytes, a leading advanced endpoint protection and remediation solution provider, today announced the findings of its annual “State of Malware” report, and I think you should read it. Let me clarify. I think you should read it if you need to understand the current cyberthreat landscape. Here’s why. As a […]

A Security Industry Report Worth Reading

This entry was posted in Industry Report Opinion and tagged Malwarebytes on February 11, 2020 by Steven Bowcut

The first swell of what is expected to be an eventual tsunami of data privacy lawsuits has been spotted off the California shore. While not an actual wave yet, a lawsuit filed on Monday, February 3, 2020, has caught the attention of data privacy experts and in-house counsels around the […]

Is the CCPA Tsunami Beginning?

This entry was posted in Data Protection Privacy and tagged CCPA on February 7, 2020 by Steven Bowcut

Wiesbaden, Germany, Feb. 6, 2020– Vanderbilt, a global provider of state-of-the-art security systems, has released the latest version of SPC Connect, the remotely managed, cloud-based, intrusion detection solution. This latest version, 3.0, includes an entirely reworked user interface and focuses on more intuitive user operations. “With this release, we believe that the […]

Vanderbilt’s SPC Connect 3.0 Focuses on Greater Visibility for Installers

This entry was posted in Press Release and tagged Vanderbilt on February 6, 2020 by Steven Bowcut

Security technology will allow us to implement some pretty amazing defenses. The brightest technology minds around the world examine new and existing threats and vulnerabilities. Each new exploit brings the industry’s defensive methods and strategies to a sharper point. One of the practical problems that continually surfaces in security […]

Applying High Tech Security Technology for SMBs

This entry was posted in Network Security and tagged Untangle on January 29, 2020 by Steven Bowcut

New account fraud has more than doubled since 2014, despite a seasonal decrease during 2019 Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend This week Jumio, the leading AI-powered trusted identity as a service provider, unveiled their third edition of the Holiday New Account Fraud Report. The foremost takeaway of the report is that account […]

Happy Holidays 2019 Brings a 28% Increase in New Account ...

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Industry Report and tagged Jumio on December 13, 2019 by Steven Bowcut

Let’s face it, it is rare to find exciting innovation from the security industry’s big-dog conglomerates. We usually expect change to be incremental and without surprise from these industry behemoths while the startups more commonly provide noteworthy new ideas, technologies, and solutions. This is why we walked away from a […]

Innovative Ways of Harnessing Data to Manage Security Threats

This entry was posted in GSX Johnson Controls New Technology Physical Security on November 6, 2019 by Steven Bowcut

In August of this year, BSM posted an article outlining a conversation we had with Saumitra Das, CTO at Blue Hexagon. This piece, entitled When You Live and Die by the 1-Second Rule, examined an announcement from Blue Hexagon that introduced an industry-first ability to detect and stop, in real-time, […]

Deep Learning Solution Earns Perfect Score in Threat Protection Test

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity and tagged Blue Hexagon on October 3, 2019 by Steven Bowcut

In cybersecurity breach de jour news it seems that a popular mobile social game company, Zynga Inc., was recently breached and gave up information on more than 218 million users. While the breach itself was quietly announced by Zynga on September 12, 2019, they offered precious few details. The story […]

Popular Game Company Zynga Breached

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Expert Insights and tagged Zynga on September 30, 2019 by Steven Bowcut

For most users – business or personal – price should not be the sole determining factor when it comes to choosing a backup storage provider. You are backing up your data for a reason. Your data is important to you. That being said, there are few things as satisfying as […]

Backing up Your Data Is Critical for Security but How ...

This entry was posted in Cloud Security Data Backup Data Protection and tagged Backblaze on September 26, 2019 by Steven Bowcut

On September 18, 2019, Trend Micro reported that they discovered a series of incidents where the credit card skimming attack Magecart was used to hit the booking websites of chain-brand hotels. In their renowned Security Intelligence Blog they stated, “In early September, we found two hotel websites (from different hotel […]

Magecart Skimming Attack Targets Hotel Booking Websites

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Expert Insights and tagged KnowBe4 Trend Micro on September 19, 2019 by Steven Bowcut