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US Marshals Scramble to Shut Down Computer System
/by Jane PaolucciAudacy | May 1, 2023
Tune in to KCBS and hear Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal’s CTO, share insights into double dip ransomware attacks, why segmentation matters, hardening your infrastructure and a quick perspective on the importance of Biden’s National Cyber Strategy.
Christine Carberry Named a 2022 Cyber Defender Award Winner
/by Jane PaolucciMeriTalk | May 10, 2022
Congratulations to Christine Carberry from RedSeal for winning a MeriTalk Cyber Defenders Award! This award recognizes leaders who are bringing unique approaches and driving cyber innovation across the Federal IT landscape. Join us in celebrating her at MeriTalk’s Cyber Central and Cyber Smoke events on May 19.
Simplifying and Securing Hybrid Clouds
/by Jane PaolucciGovLoop | October 26, 2021
President Joe Biden’s executive order (EO) on cybersecurity suggests the cloud will play a pivotal role in the federal government’s future; it urges agencies to maximize the technology’s flexibility and scalability rapidly and securely.
But what can happen if agencies embrace the cloud too rapidly? The answer is haphazard and insecure IT environments. These environments often occur when agencies combine on-premises and cloud-based IT in a hybrid model.
Finding the Right Approach to Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
/by Jane PaolucciDark Reading | October 29, 2021
New strategies are surfacing to respond to new problems. Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal’s CTO, reviews one of the latest: CSPM.
Cloud security is maturing — it has to. We’ve had too many face-palm-worthy incidents of organizations hearing “hey, I found your data in a world readable S3 bucket” or finding a supposedly “test” server exposed that had production data in it. Happily, we are emerging out of the Wild West phase, and some order and maturity is emerging, and along with it, new lingo.
How to Mitigate Security Risks in the the Cloud
/by RedSealCloudTweaks | August 3, 2021
Enterprises continue to spend billions annually on security technology, yet cyber breaches continue to come fast and furious. So what exactly is going on here? Why are the odds stacked against the good guys?
It turns out there are some pretty good reasons why security remains so elusive. Many organizations simply don’t have the staffing resources to do battle with a heavily automated enemy.
Behind the Firewall: 5 security leaders share incident response plans
/by RedSealCybersecurity Dive | July 30, 2021
First, it’s good you have a plan to begin with. But have you tested it?
That is, have you gathered all your stakeholders, from the C-suite to the trenches, and run through your plan? And testing it once is not good enough. Your teams and networks are constantly changing, so your plan should evolve as well with time.
When an incident occurs, that is not the time to find out if your plan works. Testing turns up simple things, like having the ability to use outside communication mechanisms. If your system gets locked down by ransomware there is a good chance your address book in Outlook will be inaccessible.
Part of testing is also getting to know your network by modeling it and examining how it’s all connected. Having a continuously updated model of your network greatly speeds up your response time.
DOD’s Forecast Post-JEDI: Multi-Cloud with a Chance of Peril
/by RedSealNexGov | July 20, 2021
The Pentagon’s abandonment of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract was an anticlimactic demise for the once visionary single-cloud network.
…the protracted legal battle pushed JEDI past viability. While the cloud titans fought for their slice of the pie, other actors within the federal government, most significantly the intelligence community, transitioned to a multi-cloud network. As a result, the decision to retire JEDI is best seen as an inevitable step toward DOD’s multi-vendor destiny.
Dr. Mike Lloyd Named a Gold Globee Chief Technology Officer of the Year
/by RedSealIT World Awards | June 15, 2021
RedSeal’s Chief Technology Officer Dr. Mike Lloyd was named a Gold Globee winner for Chief Technology Officer of the Year, Security Hybrid in the 16th Annual 2021 IT World Awards honoring achievements and recognitions in the information technology and cyber security industries worldwide.
More than 65 judges from around the world representing a wide spectrum of industry experts participated in the judging process. The IT World Awards are open to all Information Technology and Cyber Security organizations from all over the world and their end-users of products and services.
Security Think Tank: Printer risks go deep into IT history
/by RedSealComputer Weekly | June 9, 2021
Though rarely discussed in a cyber context, the prevalence of connected printers and MFPs does pose security risks both technological and physical. What does a print security strategy need to take into account?
…This east-west traffic in local areas is the bane of the security professional. It makes the network harder to manage as it sprawls outwards, often in the uncontrolled IT equivalent of a shanty town. This, in turn, created the ecosystem in which security threats evolved, moving from viruses spread by floppy disks to those that spread directly over the network, and their descendants we see to this day, such as ransomware spreaders that can take over oil pipelines.
EO Gives Momentum to Federal Cloud Movement
/by RedSealCommunications Daily | May 27, 2021
President Joe Biden’s cybersecurity executive order will boost the federal government’s reliance on cloud services and information sharing, experts told us. The EO directs federal civilian agencies to “accelerate movement to secure cloud services,” including software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).
“That’s really the best way for the government” to secure data, said RedSeal Federal Chief Technology Officer Wayne Lloyd. He expects the EO to drag agencies “kicking and screaming” into the cloud: “It’s something that’s long overdue,” from which the commercial sector has long seen the benefits.