Global Cybersecurity Talent Shortage Intensifies During COVID-19
… the risks doesn’t mean they stick to the rules:
- Fifty-six percent admit to using a non-work application on a corporate device. And 66% have actually uploaded corporate data to that application.
- Eighty percent confess to using their work laptop for personal browsing, and only 36% fully restrict the sites they visit.
- Thirty-nine percent say they often or always access corporate data from a personal device, almost certainly breaking corporate security policy.
- Eight percent admit to watching/accessing porn on their work laptop, and 7% access the dark web.
Productivity still wins out over protection for many users. A third of respondents said they don’t give much thought to whether IT sanctions the apps they use, as they just want the job done. Additionally, 29% think they can get away with using a non-work application, as the solutions their company provides are “nonsense.”
Bill Malik is Trend Micro‘s vice president of infrastructure strategies. He said there’s not much businesses can do to make employees obey the rules.
“Even the best organizations observe 5-7% non-compliance with basic cyber-hygiene, like clicking on dangerous links, for instance,” he said. “It’s better to apply rules at the gateway/server to block potentially dangerous content, such as not admitting emails from domains that are less than two months old.”
An MSSP can run phishing tests and other elements of an awareness program, Milik said. But there’s a downside. If senior leadership offloads responsibility for the program, it sends the message that they are not personally committed, he said.
vArmour Unveils Latest Application Controller
vArmour, a provider of application relationship management, this week launched the latest version of its Application Controller.
The offering allows enterprises to take control of operational risk by discovering and understanding application relationships across their environment. It also maximizes the value of existing investments — the technology they already own.
Controlling operational and cyber risk is critical to enable digital transformation. This transformation is accelerating adoption of public and private clouds. Organizations need solutions to understand relationships within and between applications across any type of environments, from cloud-native to mainframe.
Application Controller provides enterprises with control of every application and every relationship across every environment.
Rich Noguera is vAmour’s vice president and head of security services.
“Our ability to provide enhanced visualization and show relationships for every application across any every environment is made possible through our robust partnerships/integrations with companies like VMware, NSX, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Tanium and Cisco ACI to name a few,” he said. “For the partners, this ecosystem of integration approach ensures our customers enjoy maximum visibility, simplicity and stability across every environment.”
New and richer integrations with technology platforms and providers makes it easy to understand and control risk, Noguera said. In turn, that lengthens solution life cycles, and accelerates cloud and platform migrations, he said.
“Given that only vArmour enables centralized visibility and policy governance across the enterprise, for partners like VMware, our integrations make it easier than ever to leverage the power of existing platforms and deploy new partner solutions more efficiently, which has led to repeated examples of joint wallet share increase without our joins customer’s environments,” he said.