2021 is set to be the Year of Ransomware. As attacks rapidly spike in frequency, increasingly eye-popping ransom demands are grabbing headlines. Consumers, once relatively shielded from any impact, are experiencing product shortages and difficulty accessing services as the organizations they do business with are knocked offline.

Virtualization is a technology that has greatly benefited businesses around the globe. The technology has a significant impact on the modern IT landscape and today plays a key role in the development and delivery of cloud computing solutions. However, the adoption of this advanced technology has major security implications on businesses today. The adoption of Virtualization has opened doors to a broad range of challenges for businesses in the industry. Especially, for organizations that are PCI regulated and required to comply with PCI DSS Standards, the challenges in this area only seem to grow.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a global data privacy law established and enforced in the EU. It is a comprehensive law developed to protect and uphold the rights of EU Citizens. Organizations dealing with the personal data of citizens of the EU are required to comply with the requirements of GDPR. This brings in more transparency in the processing and securing of personal data while also ensuring citizens have control over their personal data.

Information Security Management System is an international standard designed to manage the security of sensitive information. At the core, ISMS is about managing the people, processes, and technology through a risk management program. While there are many standards under the ISO27000 family, the ISO27001 Standard is the most popular and widely accepted standard in the industry.

Now more than ever the Boardroom, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer have information security front of mind and keeping them awake at night. Every day a new attack, incident or vulnerability is announced that has a significant impact on reputation, compliance, cost or service delivery. Chief Information Security Officers must now adapt to this changing landscape and lead their organizations to adopt new security methodologies to both protect and enable their data whenever and wherever it is required in a cost effective, risk managed way. So how do they achieve it?

Business demands information management that meets their needs. From an IT perspective, it means that stakeholders are demanding access to information services that reach far beyond the boundaries of the organisation. At the same time, they are also expecting the IT department to protect their high-value information assets and intellectual property. How can you ensure that enabling remote and mobile access to your protected information services will not compromise your high-value information assets?

Government, defense and defense industry base (DIB) must meet the demands of both the DoD and the critical infrastructure players and map to critical controls laid out in NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, and the upcoming CMMC 2.0 to adequately protect Federal Contract Information (FCI) and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

Information barriers that were once relegated to financial services and regulatory compliance are quickly becoming a must have to accommodate a variety of business scenarios. The art of running a business is a forever evolving path of goldmines and hurdles. Trying to map these business processes over current technology, is challenging at best and extremely difficult to achieve for all elements and viewpoints of business workflows.