There’s a lot of buzz around the term micro-segmentation (uSeg) and I thought I’d take some time to demystify it, starting with some history. If you’re more of a visual learner skip to the end and check out the video. uSeg has roots in ‘zero-trust model’ type of thinking and…
Tag: security
Passwords Are Doomed: You NEED Two-Factor Authentication
How many people use eight-character or less passwords with the first letter being capital and last entries being numbers? People are predictable and so are their passwords. To make things worse, people are lazy and tend to use the same passwords for just about everything that requires one. A study…
An End User’s Cloud Security Question
I recently received an email with a question about the security of cloud computing environments. The question comes from a knowledgeable user and boils down to ‘Isn’t my data safer on my systems?’ I thought this would be a great question to open up to the wider community. Does anyone…