Michael Vizard

Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.

IBM at the IBM Think 2018 conference today made a case for a new approach to cryptography that will be made necessary by the imminent cracking of encryption based on elliptical algorithms by quantum computers. Michael Osborne, manager of the security research group at IBM Research, said that while this ... Read More

The rise of cloud computing has fundamentally changed the way network traffic flows within most organizations. Users in branch offices now typically access applications over public internet connections versus backhauling all network traffic through a secure data center. A new survey of 309 IT professionals at organizations with more than ... Read More

A global survey of 2,848 IT and cybersecurity professionals conducted by Ponemon Institute of behalf of IBM suggests many of them may be living in a world their hopes and dreams exceed hard reality when it comes to their response to a cyberattack. The survey finds that nearly three-quarters (72 ... Read More

Now that multiple clouds are becoming a standard element of the enterprise there’s a more pressing need to manage who gets access when. That realization has lead to a wave of mergers and acquisitions in which once-standalone cloud access security broker (CASB) software is now being embedded within larger cybersecurity ... Read More

For a long time now Splunk has been content to essentially offer up cybersecurity advice made possible by applying analytics to machine data captured within the logs of various systems. That information then would be used to identify anomalies indicative of a cybersecurity breach. But with its move to acquire Phantom ... Read More

Cisco Systems is extending the reach and scope the security capabilities of the Tetration analytics platform to include identification of software vulnerabilities and exposures, baselining process behavior and identifying any deviations. The goal is to provide finer-grained controls over workloads for organizations embracing DevSecOps, said Yogesh Kaushik, senior director for ... Read More

PhishMe, a provider of training tools employed by organizations to help end users better recognize spear phishing attacks such as social engineering, announced today it will now be known as Cofense, after being acquired by a private equity firm. Cofense CEO Rohyt Belani, who held the same position as the ... Read More

An annual report on the state of cybersecurity released Feb. 21 by Cisco Systems suggests cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated and devious in their attacks to compromise IT environments. Based on a survey of 3,600 chief security officers (CSOs) and security operations (SecOps) managers from 26 countries, the report finds ... Read More

At its recent OpenWorld 2017 conference, Oracle kicked off a multi-pronged effort that promises to employ machine learning algorithms and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to address data security once and for all. The first of those efforts is centered around a forthcoming managed instance of an autonomous Oracle 18c ... Read More

Many advances in application security have been made over the years, yet building and deploying secure applications remains a challenge for even the most well-heeled of organizations. Justin Somaini, chief information security officer (CISO) for SAP, says the sheer volume of code coupled with the increased rate at which additional ... Read More