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 […]
Read MoreCloud infrastructure systems present an incredible opportunity for healthcare organizations to not only greatly save on costs, but also securely transfer patient data faster and more securely (when done right). In DayBlink Consulting’s new thought piece, Christa Zubic assesses the various options healthcare organizations can pursue in upgrading their cloud offerings, specifically focusing on how […]
Scaling the capabilities of Identity and Access Management (IAM) teams now requires not only meeting requirements for potentially hundreds of applications and thousands of identity profiles, but also multiple infrastructure ecosystems. That ecosystem gets further complicated with hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Traditional strategic advice is often given as “move towards a zero trust network” or, […]
Businesses establishing themselves in the cloud invest in services that optimize processes and increase productivity. Cloud implementation trends are moving towards multi-platform environments and microservice architecture, and security professionals are contending with cloud threats that exploit gaps in the growing attack surface. The DayBlink Consulting Cybersecurity Group has identified key themes and outlined a high-level […]
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) recently held its Cloud Threats and Vulnerabilities Summit, featuring prominent speakers across 20 sessions and panels. Speakers highlighted the main systemic risks within the cloud ecosystem and provided recommendations on how to best defend against malicious actors. DayBlink Consulting’s Cybersecurity Group gathered the following key takeaways and their implications for […]
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, […]
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 […]