The Impact of Corporate Data Loss from Mobile Devices

Corporate data loss from mobile devices has significant financial penalties, leading to operational downtime, expensive recovery, and lost revenue. It causes severe reputational damage and erosion of customer trust, and can result in costly legal and regulatory trouble due to failed data protection requirements. Additionally, mobile breaches can provide entry points for hackers to compromise larger corporate networks, enabling further cascading security impacts.  […]

NIST Releases Draft Guide on Mobile Security Threats

NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) released a draft guide in July 2019 (SP 1800-21) to help organizations address unique mobile security threats and risks to personal and business data. The guide provides practical steps to reduce risks from malicious apps, compromised devices, and data loss through a standards-based approach using commercially available technologies. It outlines how to integrate mobile […]

State CIOs Can Take a Leadership Role in Data Security

State CIOs lead data security by making it a strategic priority, investing in resources, and developing comprehensive strategies aligned with state-specific risks. They ensure vendor security, enforce policies using frameworks like NIST, promote cybersecurity training, and establish robust incident response plans. By collaborating across departments and taking a holistic view of risk, CIOs can modernize state IT, ensure regulatory compliance, and secure critical citizen […]

Application Persistence is Editor’s Choice Winner for Application Security

The phrase “Application Persistence is Editor’s Choice Winner for Application Security” is likely a misremembered or incomplete statement, as there isn’t a widely recognized product or feature named “Application Persistence” that holds an “Editor’s Choice” award in the application security field. The term “application persistence” typically refers to the ability of an application to maintain state or […]

Decentralization of IT Spending Puts Data at Risk

Decentralized IT spending increases data risk because it makes it difficult to maintain consistent security across different departments, creating vulnerabilities that can lead to breaches and misuse of data. This shift also raises concerns about non-compliance and increases the complexity of auditing, as a lack of centralized oversight can allow for the uncontrolled adoption of unvetted software […]