Loyalty and fraud. Not a nice pairing. Loyalty is great for business, fraud taxes it with ongoing losses. Yet the two have become inseparable in the past two decades, with fraudsters banking on loyalty points, miles and rewards and using them for their own profit. Loyalty programs can be costly…
Read MoreNetwork segmentation is a concept that dates back to the start of enterprise IT systems. The simplest demonstration of this is separating application and infrastructure components with a firewall. This concept is now a routine part of building data centers and application architectures. In fact, it’s nearly impossible to find…
Read MoreWhile sitting in metaphysics class one afternoon, I asked my philosophy professor if Frankenstein’s monster is really a monster if he is just the sum of other people’s parts. He gave no reply to this question, only laughed. This memory struck me when I was thinking about a topic that…
Read MoreYour organization has invested in dozens of cybersecurity tools. But you’re not sure if they’re working as expected. For example, what percentage of successfully blocked attacks reported by your security information and event management (SIEM) tool are false reports, where the attack actually occurred but was reported as blocked? Zero…
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