I grew up in an environment filled with fun and engaging games. My parents, who were Grand Life Masters in the game of Bridge, believed their children could “learn to think” by playing and facing challenges presented by different strategy games. Growing up my family played many hours of strategy games such as Chess, Risk, Bridge, and many others. One of my favorite games was Stratego. As CTO of an...

Evaluating and selecting a new solution is always an undertaking, but following a standard framework and criteria set for each solution you’re considering will help simplify the process.

Today Fortra is publishing several high-impact vulnerabilities on the Dell SonicWall GMS platform that our vulnerability research team discovered and brought to the attention of Dell. Dell has been extremely professional and worked diligently with Fortra engineering staff to understand, resolve and verify the fixes for these security issues. Dell has released fixes and customer advisories for...

Email classification software gives businesses the ability to classify emails in accordance with their sensitivity. This ensures that you have better control over data, and that confidential information is only shared with intended recipients. Read on to discover more about the benefits of such software in further detail.Assess your company’s level of...

File Transfer Protocol is widely used in corporate networks yet has inherent data security risks. Here’s an overview of some of the challenges of FTP security and methods to address them.

After the "year of the healthcare breach," many healthcare organizations are taking steps to improve their data protection strategies to meet regulatory requirements and secure health information against costly data breaches. Here's an overview of the data protection requirements for compliance and beyond.

In anticipation of the soon-to-be-released Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Data Loss Prevention, here's a behind the scenes look at the submission process.

Lahey Hospital and Medical Center will pay $850,000 for losing data on just 600 patients. The cause? Weak security for medical devices.

Several months back I was updating our vulnerability scanner checks for various Solarwinds products. As I added a detection script for a product called Log and Event Manager (LEM), I realized that there were really no significant publicly disclosed vulnerabilities for it. This spurred me to download their trial, which comes as a virtual appliance, and look for some flaws. After initially setting...