A major Communications & Media company faced a large number of long-lived vulnerabilities in their service delivery network for which the asset owner was unknown. Without an asset owner for whom to turn for remediation, each day the situation was going from bad to worse. Their existing manual ownership identification processes were hopelessly overwhelmed by […]
Read MoreScaling 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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Vienna, VA, March 6th, 2023 – DayBlink Consulting has placed 9th on Vault’s 2023 list of Best Boutique Consulting Firms to Work For, and 38th on the Vault Consulting 50: Best Consulting Firms to Work For. This marks the seventh year in a row that DayBlink Consulting has been recognized with this honor. DayBlink Consulting ranked […]
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, […]