As we continue to operate in a hybrid model, organizations are stuck. Virtual is not providing a space for efficient working conditions nor growing company culture, and going into the office is creating a disgruntled employee base. While both options are optimal for some, the availability of choice has created friction. Many have landed on […]
Read MoreA quick Google search using keywords like “how to scale identity and access” or “how to securely manage identity and access” will yield a plethora of results addressing common Identity and Access Management (IAM) challenges. Notably, many of these results are dominated by companies that offer enterprise IAM products such as SailPoint and Okta. Their […]
Every year, hacker summer camp (aka DEFCON, Black Hat, BSides) arrives in a flurry of anticipation, presentations, and great ideas that often take reflection to determine how best to implement in our daily lives. Each year, in addition to new skills and information, we look for themes that may come to dominate the security world […]
Has platform architecture design documentation become a lost art? Over the past decade, we have observed this trend across many IT organizations. It seems to have eroded inversely proportionally to the growth of Agile. Agile’s manifesto of “working software over comprehensive documentation” appears to be misinterpreted as “working software and no documentation”, an unfortunate casualty of […]
As a result of Covid, a rapid organizational shift to a new way of working is well underway, and almost three years into this transformation, companies are still wrestling with the transition to a hybrid work environment. As we continue to learn more about the impacts of these recent organizational changes, leaders are now focused […]
IT Asset Management is often the un-owned, unwanted, and un-optimized major initiative that large technology organizations continue to struggle with — especially in a modern ecosystem of hybrid infrastructure, legacy systems, microservices, and DevOps teams. Is this simply a commonly ignored housekeeping exercise or is it a signal of a huge cybersecurity risk? The latest […]
The U.S. Department of Treasury recently released “The Financial Service’s Sector’s Adoption of Cloud Services” (“Cloud Report”), outlining key issues facing the U.S. financial services industry as it adopts cloud services. Forty-eight organizations, including global banks, participated in the “open discussion without attribution focused on the current and future state of cloud adoption, viewpoints on […]
As 2023 approaches, it is time to look into our crystal ball for trends that will define cybersecurity over the next year. With many CEOs expecting possible economic downturn in the next 12 months, it’s impossible to not consider the larger macro environment when making these predictions. While recessions typically lead to cost-cutting across companies, […]
Modern application systems are significantly more complex than they were a decade ago. Organizations aiming to scale effectively have adopted distributed microservice ecosystems in lieu of monolithic architectures. Microservices allow organizations to deliver efficiently and decrease time to market. This is great for the customer, but innovation often comes with a tradeoff. So where is […]
DEFCON is an experience that covers a breadth of security topics from Lock Picking to International Cyber Policy and Security. After spending a jam-packed weekend in Las Vegas, the DayBlink Consulting Cybersecurity Group gathered key takeaways with security practitioners and IT executives in mind. Read more here: Zachary White on Medium About the Authors Zachary […]