Articles by 'Eric Corcoran'

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 4/17 General Availability of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security with Azure Gateway Load Balancer (Check Point) With CloudGuard, customers can now protect their data, applications and services from potential threats in the cloud with greater security efficacy, and the integration simplifies and improves the design of secure Azure deployments. https://bit.ly/41c0LJV Enable seamless agent upgrades with Citrix WEM (Citrix) Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM) agent upgrades are importa... read more.

• April 21, 2023

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 4/10 Diving deep into Citrix zero trust architecture (Citrix) As enterprises migrate toward a mature zero trust architecture, it is important to understand the core concepts of how to design the architecture and how to configure the environment to satisfy the tenets of a zero trust architecture. https://bit.ly/3mj2LAE AI, ChatGPT and Identity Security’s Critical Human Element (CyberArk) As public debate and regulatory scrutiny around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) i... read more.

• April 14, 2023

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 4/3 Last week, six people in Nashville lost their lives senselessly. Too often, we hear devastating news like this, and then move on, in the hope it never happens to us, or to our families, friends, or colleagues.   Today, Gotham will take six minutes from our days to remember those lost in last week’s tragedy. We ask you do the same, to keep these and all the other victims in your hearts, and to push for change. What’s new with Citrix — March 2023 (Citrix) This year h... read more.

• April 07, 2023

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/27 Protect Passwords, Don’t Just Manage Them: A Game Plan for CIOs and CISOs (CyberArk) Today’s attackers assign a level of value to employees’ passwords they once reserved for privileged users’ credentials. Why? Workers now have a shocking amount of access to sensitive resources. http://bit.ly/3JQqeB5 Simplify Array Monitoring with New App for Splunk (Pure Storage) The new unified app and technical add-on for Splunk simplify monitoring by providing performance metrics... read more.

• March 31, 2023

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/20 What Is Zero Trust and Why Is it So Important? (CyberArk) In today’s world, the rapid pace of digital transformation, increased use of cloud services and adoption of hybrid work has created a continually shifting enterprise environment that’s chaotic and difficult to secure. http://bit.ly/401mcg4 CrowdStrike Extends Identity Security Innovations to Protect Customers and Stop Breaches (CrowdStrike) The only effective way to protect against modern attacks is an adversary-focused s... read more.

• March 24, 2023

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/13 Actionable Insights: Increasing Your Organization’s “Risk Efficacy” Through Targeted Controls (Proofpoint) Using actionable insights to assess your cybersecurity measures is key to protecting against potential threats. http://bit.ly/3JxZw1a CISA: Do these three things to toughen up your network against hackers (ZDNet) Cybersecurity agency shares the lessons learned from a red team assessment of a critical infrastructure organization. http://bit.ly/42bWoiW Tuesday 3/14 D... read more.

• March 17, 2023

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 3/6 FlashBlade//E™: The Dawn of a New //Era for Unstructured Data Storage (Pure Storage) Pure Storage FlashBlade//E delivers the environmental, ease of use, and reliability benefits of all-flash storage for unstructured data workloads, but at a cost competitive to disk-based storage solutions. http://bit.ly/3EVh1FZ Just Because It’s Old Doesn’t Mean You Throw It Away (Including Malware!) (Fortinet) MyDoom (also known as Novarg and Mimail) was first discovered back in 2004. And... read more.

• March 10, 2023

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 2/27 Security, Productivity and Privacy: Balancing a 3-Legged Stool (Proofpoint) Securing sensitive information can’t be a one-size-fits-all approach because each organization’s definition of sensitive information can be different. http://bit.ly/41ti89u HardBit 2.0 Ransomware (Varonis) Like most modern ransomware threats, HardBit claims to steal sensitive data from their victims, likely upon first gaining access to the network, before launching their payload to encrypt data. http://... read more.

• March 03, 2023

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 2/20 3 Ways Visualization Improves Cloud Asset Management and Security (CrowdStrike) While it’s important to understand the relationships and potential vulnerabilities of your cloud assets, the practice of managing these systems is complicated by the ever-changing nature of cloud environments. http://bit.ly/417Bwsr Ransomware Roundup – CatB Ransomware (Fortinet) CatB is a reasonably new entrant to the ransomware field, with samples only dating back to December 2022. The ransom demand... read more.

• February 24, 2023

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 2/13   Make Compliance a Breeze with Modern Log Management (CrowdStrike) While regulations vary by country and industry, nearly every organization must store compliance-relevant information for a certain period of time. The trouble comes when you’ve got an assortment of tools emitting logs in an inconsistent fashion. http://bit.ly/3DY9Tbm Machine Creation Services support for catalogs with Azure VM extensions (Citrix) Adding Azure VM extensions to your machine catalogs is a powerful... read more.

• February 17, 2023