Where is your focus? Where your focus lands, is where your focus expands. Cause I need to move, I need to wake up… I need to change, I need to shake up. Their energy is different. Changing your energy. Try to be like the turtle — at ease in your own shell. Just be yourself. What signs are you ignoring that can potentially cook your business like a charred hot dog? I put mustard on my hot dog. To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment your competition overtakes you.
My oxygen. Hearing others laugh and smile gives me life. A coach helps you to get where you want to go, faster. The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Easier said than done. Are you describing your past or present or feeding yourself a script that will change your future? Paul asked him what he attributed to his success. Never stand up when you can sit down. Never sit down when you can lie down.
Shine the spotlight on your team while applauding in the wings. Humility is the sign of a great leader. To change your results, you must change how your world is wired.
What are you doing to improve your wiring? What are you learning? Take a look at how you run your business, your life. What are you modeling for your kids? My Ahha moment during an interview with a client.
Be real. What a Ride! Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Choose with no regrets. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. When you immerse yourself in the things you love, and I mean actually love, something happens. You begin to get excited and inspired. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
As I pulled into the environs of Asheville, I saw a homeless person standing on a corner, holding his proverbial cardboard sign. This man has dormant potential. Anyone that creative has the ability to turn things around. I hope he does. Not usually the case. Change takes time. Pick the day. Enjoy it — to the hilt. The day as it comes. Did you know, every week I write a blog post? Click on the Blog tab above to check it. Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love.
A river never pushes. It flows in a natural direction. Where are you pushing? What needs to happen for you to flow? Ho hum. You were going to make a change last month, last year, etc. The first one to make 5, mistakes wins. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Whatever makes you weird, is probably your greatest asset. Creating sustainable change in your business requires sustainable behavioral change. A qualified coach can help you with both. Stop looking at your electronic device. Miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the Universe.
I once thought the same. No longer. Try a sip of the Woo Woo Kool-Aid. No need to gulp. One small crack does not mean that you are broken…. A thief targets your home for invasion, finds all your other doors and windows open, no alarm system present, and your front door key publicly visible.
Said thief hosts a Darwin award robbery party in honor of your negligence. Assuming that there's a specific action to address a generalized need for security was your biggest flaw. Everything is contextual, especially in a high-profile environment, and maintenance is crucial.
Arguably the greatest contributor to innovation is the necessity to adapt an object in response to its subjects' needs. This is at the core of a merchant's ability to convert. So when exploring how we adapt security to its subjects, the lack of attention is alarming. In recent cases of large data breaches, active negligence in maintaining IT practices were a causal factor. So if merchants are able to rapidly adapt their sales and marketing processes, to keep up with trends, one would expect they would put forth a similar effort with their customers' data.
His company sells its remote-access VPNs to government agencies and other organizations, providing technology for fast, secure access to their network resources and communication of sensitive data. With a wealth of personally identifiable information, ever-growing corporate data stores are becoming an incredibly valuable target for hackers, which incentivizes them to exploit every possible flaw in an enterprise's network security. Taking multi-layered precautionary measures to mitigate the risks associated with corporate data is a must, because as cyberthreats become increasingly sophisticated, organizations can't rely on one security control method alone.
Breaches are an inevitability, and a defense-in-depth approach is essential to ensuring redundancy if a security control fails or a vulnerability is exploited. Though breaches are not always easily detectible, planning for redundancy, will likely lessen the negative impact of the breach on the overall information technology system. With more than 25 years as a technology innovator, he is responsible for the overall direction of big data across Red Hat's open source product portfolio with a focus on storage, middleware, and clouds architectures for enterprises.
With a broad technology background in hardware, software, and services, Greg has led key company initiatives across product management, product marketing, business development, and sales organizations. He is a frequent speaker at IT conferences worldwide and covers topics such as storage, big data, and cloud.
In addition to the data loss and security breach, there is immeasurable, and sometimes irrevocable, damage to the brand. The only defense for most institutions is Analyzing machine data from firewalls and perimeter devices in real time to frequency and thwart - and predict - threats.
However, the amount of data to be stored and analyzed results in prohibitive cost when near real time, highly constrained by the rigidity of proprietary storage platforms. In addition, the lack of granularity in the machine data analytics available to IT and security administrators results in too much data and not enough information. This puts enterprises at great risk especially considering the regulatory compliance mandates on security.
Relevant data from across IT systems - routers, switches, firewalls, IPS, web proxy — have a story to tell about the confidentiality, integrity and the availability of your environments and is critical to investigations and continuous monitoring for situation awareness.
However, the real ROI for security solutions lies in making them work together to provide a comprehensive view of the enterprise security posture. This combined, chronological view of all security-relevant data enables the security team to prioritize events and responses and effectively engage with IT operations and other areas of the business.
Netwrix delivers complete visibility into who did what, when and where across the entire IT infrastructure. The first thing I would recommend as a preventive measure against data breaches is Deploying a change auditing solution, allowing to analyze who did what, when and where across your IT infrastructure. It will provide you with complete visibility across the entire IT infrastructure and notify you of any malicious changes.
This will not save you from security violations, but will ensure complete visibility into what is going on across the entire IT infrastructure, helping to detect a breach at early stages, assisting during root-cause analysis, and therefore indicating weaknesses that you can fix to strengthen security of your IT infrastructure.
Robert W. Twitchell, Jr. Bob has an extensive background in the wireless industry. He holds 94 granted patents with numerous others pending in wireless, GPS, networking and location technology. Bob is also a subject matter expert for the Department of Defense on mobile phones and cyber warfare.
I think there are three major things that enterprises can do to protect their big data from security breaches:. Jeff offers innovative perspectives on streamlining business for improved efficiency and productivity.
As we've seen in the past few years, any company is vulnerable to cyber attacks. The time to develop your security plan is before an attack occurs. Start by Identify your organization's unique security requirements, processes and technology standards. Part of your security strategy should be a careful study of your security vulnerabilities so you can work to eliminate them. Vulnerabilities could include: security updates on individual devices as well as line of business applications.
Once you understand your vulnerabilities, work to mitigate any existing threats, such as those caused by Malware which are invisible and allow hackers to gain access to your business critical information. Once you have your security policy in place, it's important to fully test your policies and technologies to ensure their effectiveness - and make adjustments as necessary.
This is not only a good policy — it is essential for protecting your organization and corporate officers from legal and compliance nightmares. Your policy is only as good as the people and technology that are responsible for implementing it. Accountability and ownership across multiple business units ensure that "everyone" is adhering to the same policies and procedures. Security intelligence and analytics tools help further identify weaknesses and warn off potential threats.
They can also assist your technical team with time and cost savings. Jeff Harvey, Of Counsel at Klemchuk Kubasta LLP , is a business attorney and counselor with broad expertise in developing and supporting client-specific strategies that balance business, technical, and legal concerns to the maximum benefit of the firm's clients.
Jeff understands the role and purpose of legal services to clients and provides comprehensive advice and tailored technical services in a value-added manner. Today, Jeff serves as legal and strategic advisor to clients of all sizes across many industries. Jeff teaches Business Law and Professional Responsibility in Utah State University's Masters of Accounting Program, assists and advises start-up companies and business incubators, moderates panel discussions of business and intellectual property experts and lectures on business formation and planning, entrepreneurship, intellectual property strategy, privacy and data preservation, and emerging topics such as the "internet of things" and "wirelessly connected assets".
To have and implement a comprehensive data security plan that aligns IT, HR, legal and compliance, among other functional areas. The plan should begin with clear and detailed policies and practices for internal personnel and external contractors and vendors, which are communicated regularly and supported by appropriate training, audit and enforcement procedures. Policies should include password protected access, limited to only relevant personnel for the specific function or activity.
On and off site storage facilities, whether first or third-party, should include tier-one security, redundancy, back-up and fail-over systems with regular audits for compliance with domestic and international standards. Data should be encrypted and accessed only by strong password protocols combining letters, numbers and symbols with regular requirements to materially change passwords. All personnel, as a condition to hiring or engagement, should be required to execute acknowledgements of data security policies and procedures that include non-disclosure, non-solicitation and, under appropriate circumstances, non-competition covenants, as well as work-for-hire provisions and assignments of IP rights in favor of the enterprise.
Also, take special care with mobile devices to provide secure, exclusive areas for maintaining enterprise data, encrypted and password secured, separate and apart from any personal data, that can be unilaterally and remotely wiped in the event the relationship terminates. Bring-you-own-device is becoming more popular, but presents additional data security concerns where control and access can be limited.
He is also a computer science professor at the Northeastern University in Boston, and the director of the Northeastern Information Assurance Institute. There are many important steps enterprises can take to prevent big data security breaches. Arguably, the most crucial step is to Develop and deploy security tools that effectively detect and defend against the targeted attacks and zero-day exploits that often lead to the most damaging breaches.
Traditional signature-based anti-virus technologies and first-generation sandboxing aren't effective in detecting evasive malware because the malware is purpose-built to circumvent them. Enterprises must evaluate and adopt new breach detection platforms that integrate with their existing security systems and IT architecture while surfacing the most critical threats among the often hundreds or thousands of potential security incidents they face each day. Only then can enterprises effectively protect their big data and that of their partners and customers.
William C. He is responsible for the training of Account Managers and Pre-Sales Consultants, management of the team, process, contracts and solution development for clients. Influencing nearly all engagements NTT Com Security conducts, he is able to provide an invaluable and unique perspective gained through experiences working with organizations of varying sizes, verticals and needs.
William's success in this demanding environment is due to his detail oriented, analytical approach combined with more than 15 years of industry experience. The truth of the matter is the 1 thing to do to protect an enterprise level-organization is to Create a "Risk Aware Organization", meaning train your people to understand risk and security, understand how they can be manipulated into giving away information, and understand that sometimes our best intentions are our biggest fault.
Here's the issue, this is the hardest, longest and one of the most expensive endeavors. The development of a full scale IA Program requires a lot of work. Starting with ensuring the executive team understands the risks, need and is in full support of the program, then committing… Investment will need to be made not just in assessing the current state, but also in identifying the right training for your own company culture.
Everyone is quick to "buy a box" to solve a problem without understanding the business and personal ramifications. You may find that you don't have the right HRIS system in place and that's why it's happening, yes you need to fix it, but it's not a simple as "turn on DLP" - you need new processes to keep doing business.
This involves several key things that make up a "priority task" for an enterprise including Data Criticality, Data Classification , Data Ownership and overall Risk Management Frameworks need to be understood, defined, implemented and managed.
Many organizations assume IT owns the data, rather than the business lines owning the data. Organizations need to understand that defining what data is important, why and at what cost is a business decision. Organizations need to recognize that risk management and information security is a business issue, and part of everyone's roles and responsibilities.
Those roles and responsibilities should be defined, understood, accepted and managed. Does your company involve the business, PR, etc. If you don't know what you are protecting, why, and the risks you are gambling with your budget. Matt Carbonara is Investment Director at Comcast Ventures , where he focuses on investment opportunities in the IT infrastructure space. Specifically he's interested in opportunities that capture the remaking of the application infrastructure delivery stack - from compute, storage and networking to databases, management and orchestration.
Previously, Matt worked in Corporate Development at Cisco Systems where he focused on strategy, acquisitions and investments in the data center segment. Prior to joining Cisco he was at another venture capital firm. Early in his career, Matt was a ASIC design engineer and a product marketing manager at Terayon Communications Systems where as an early employee he architected and designed some of the world's first cable modem chips.
Matt graduated Summa Cum Laude with his B. The key to protecting against big data security breaches for enterprise level organizations is to Big Data security presents extraordinary challenges as enterprises want to place as much of their customer facing and operational data in one location, a "data lake" if you will, in order to draw insights from a wide variety of data. This "data lake" will be accessed by folks from many parts of the organization with different roles and commensurate levels of access.
Therefore, security must be designed in a very granular way - both by application use case and by role within the organization. It is difficult to bolt on such a security solution once the overall infrastructure is designed, thus granular security capabilities must be built in from the ground up with these needs in mind.
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