Illuminating the intersection of physical and cyber security

Opinion

By: John Evans and Sofia Cardante of Front Sight Protection Each year you will see lists of global risks from numerous security companies with no insight or analysis as to how they came up with these. Many just pick buzzwords from the news and issues that they can profit on. […]

What Global Risks will be faced in 2019 and 2020?

This entry was posted in Guest Contributor Industry Trends Opinion and tagged Front Sight Protection on April 8, 2019 by Editorial Staff

By Marty Greenlow, CEO, Ensighten Today’s senior executives are under great pressure to transform their organizations for the digital world. Although this digital transformation imperative has been underway for several years now, we’re currently seeing a significant shift within the C-suite when it comes to ownership of these colossal undertakings. […]

The Implications of Shifting Digital Transformation Responsibilities

This entry was posted in Guest Contributor Industry Trends Opinion and tagged Digital Transformation Ensighten on March 2, 2019 by Steven Bowcut

What if Sherlock Holmes was a robot? This question is obviously designed to provoke thoughts on how the integration of automation and investigation could yield some interesting results. Appropriately, it is being used as the tag line for SecBI’s current marketing campaign. SecBI’s Autonomous Investigation technology provides automated detection and investigation that […]

What If Sherlock Holmes Was A Robot?

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Industry Trends Opinion and tagged SecBI on February 12, 2019 by Steven Bowcut

By Tom Piston, Farpointe Data U.S. Eastern Regional Manager For the past several years, there’s been a focus by integrators and customers to assure that their card-based access control systems are secure. To give businesses an extra incentive to meet their cybersecurity threats, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) […]

Eliminate the Word “Portals” from Mobile Access Control Discussions

This entry was posted in Access Control Industry Trends Opinion on February 11, 2019 by Editorial Staff

The convenience of online shopping allows people to buy the things they want through the internet, then get them delivered to their doorsteps days or even hours later. But online shopping’s popularity also caused a rise in “porch pirates,” the thieves who look for packages left outside homes and snatch […]

What the Prevalence of Porch Pirates Says About the Need ...

This entry was posted in Industry Trends Opinion and tagged Porch Pirates on February 8, 2019 by Kayla Matthews

By: Darrell Laffoon, CTO of EZShield + IdentityForce Chances are, you or someone you know has been impacted by identity theft and cybercrime — even if they don’t know it yet. The fallout from such a personal intrusion into your most confidential personal information can affect every aspect of your […]

Preventing Cybercrime and Identity Theft in 2019: How to Transform ...

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Guest Contributor Opinion and tagged EZShield + IdentityForce on February 6, 2019 by Editorial Staff

Guest Contributor: Jeremy Moskowitz Last year, Merriam-Webster added the word, “Bitcoin” to its latest version of the authorized Scrabble dictionary game. As the most recognized form of cryptocurrency, bitcoin has become embedded in our vocabulary thanks to the barrage of media stories outlining it ascension to financial investment stardom in […]

Why Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Spell Trouble for Cybersecurity

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Guest Contributor Industry Trends Opinion and tagged Cryptocurrency PolicyPak on February 6, 2019 by Editorial Staff

By Don Boxley, CEO and Co-Founder, DH2i (www.dh2i.com) Regardless of where it originates – commercial, nonprofit, or government agency – data is moving into the cloud at breakneck speed. One important reason for this is to support today’s increasingly decentralized workforce and its accessibility requirements. And, not only are workforces increasingly spread-out […]

How Software Defined Perimeter Solutions Can Improve Data Security Over ...

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Guest Contributor Opinion and tagged DH2i on January 21, 2019 by Editorial Staff

By Itai Weissman, VP Partners Solutions, Allot Consumer cybersecurity needs have significantly changed over the past years. With the rising global dependence on smart devices for everything from waking up in the morning to dimming the lights at night, it is safe to say that smart homes are the new […]

Service Providers Have an Opportunity to Address Consumer IoT Security ...

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Guest Contributor Opinion and tagged Allot on January 14, 2019 by Steven Bowcut

In today’s world of rampant hyperbole and the excessive use of buzzwords, it is often a good idea to define exactly how you are using some terms. This is especially true when talking about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or Deep Learning. More than any others in recent memory, these terms […]

5 Questions You Should Ask Your Security Vendors About Their ...

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Industry Trends Opinion and tagged MapR on December 18, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

Ad fraud – what is it and how is it a serious cybersecurity threat? That is what we set out to learn when we talked with Maggie Louie, Co-founder and CEO of DEVCON. The term ad fraud may very well conjure up visions of a smarmy script kiddie in their […]

Is that Ad just Annoying, or is it Dangerous?

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Industry Trends Opinion and tagged DEVCON on December 11, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

By Hannah Moses a contributing author for VPNetworks, LLC When owning a business, computer hackers are always a concern. There are a few ways to identify if you have been hacked. Fake emails are being sent out, increases in failed login attempts, DNS traffic rises, and inconsistency with patterns for […]

How to Protect Your Business from Hackers

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Guest Contributor Opinion on December 11, 2018 by Editorial Staff