Bruce Lynch

TrueFort

Ransomware impacts more than seven in ten companies worldwide, and understanding how ransomware spreads is critical to finding solutions to stop it  Ransomware is malicious software threat actors use to infiltrate a network. Cybercriminals design ransomware to block access to a computer system or encrypt data they find in an ... Read More

Creating and deploying a customer experience reference architecture is tricky, but microsegmentation can drastically increase the chances of success  Customer experience reference architecture is the structured framework or model that provides guidance to organizations on best practices for designing and delivering a consistent and excellent customer experience across all touchpoints ... Read More

Learn what you can do to detect lateral movement and prevent lateral movement attack After gaining access to an organization’s network, cybercriminals use lateral movement to escalate privileges, exploit vulnerabilities, and other malicious activity to gain access to assets and resources. Lateral movement is not an attack per se; it ... Read More

Four enterprise-wide benefits of implementing an application whitelisting solution Application whitelisting is a proactive security technique that dictates which applications are permitted to run on a system, while blocking all others by default. It essentially creates a “whitelist” of approved applications based on their identifiable attributes, such as their file ... Read More

In the context of on-premises database activity monitoring (DAM), security teams use agents to enable them to see all requests coming into the databases as well as all responses going out of the databases. In other words, the agent-based approach enables database activity monitoring independent of the database system and ... Read More

Most organizations today rely on an unprecedented number of computing resources to build, deploy and scale the workflows and applications they need to succeed. They are responsible for more data than ever before, on-premises and in the cloud, which presents them with challenges they’ve never faced. Every new infrastructure that ... Read More

Effective data security is critical to an organization’s success and requires a strategy that aligns with the company’s objectives and those of its stakeholders. As the data landscape changes, most Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) solutions struggle to meet new data security requirements. The result for many organizations is inhibited innovation ... Read More

As we push into Q4, economic uncertainty caused by rising interest rates, as-yet unchecked inflation, and a bear market is driving many enterprises to buck the trend and tighten cyber security budgets for the last three months of 2022. The result is increased pressure to achieve data security while lowering ... Read More

Data lakes serve as a central repository for storing several data types – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured – at scale. One of the ways data lakes are useful is they do not require any upfront work on the data. You can simply integrate and store data as it streams in ... Read More

An insider threat is a cyber security risk that originates from within any organization that is being targeted by attackers. Often, insider threats involve a current or former employee, or business associate, who has access to sensitive information or privileged accounts, and who misuses this access. Sometimes it is an ... Read More