With over 2.5 billion consumer accounts, Mastercard connects nearly every financial institution in the world and generates almost 75 billion transactions a year. As a result, the company has built over decades a data warehouse that holds “one of the best datasets about commerce really anywhere in the world,” says Ed McLaughlin, president of operations…
Data-driven decision making (DDDM) is just what it sounds like. DDDM uses facts, metrics, and data to guide strategic business decisions that align with goals, objectives, and priorities. If organizations can realize the full value of their data, everyone is empowered to make better decisions. When you look at why IT analytics and DDDM exist,…
By Beth Joseph The explosive growth of data continues to drive modernization to the top of enterprise IT priority lists. IDC analysts report that large-scale organizations today typically experience a whopping 43% compound annual growth in data, which translates to a doubling of data volumes every three years. Effectively managing data under those conditions —…
We’re living in a time of rapid IT transformation, from data technologies to workforce locations. Amid all these changes, here are some important trends to keep in mind. 1. Business Is Moving to the Cloud: Now IT Monitoring and Security Need to Catch Up Even before the pandemic, more businesses were moving more of their…
What Is This Report? The State of Hybrid Workforce Security 2021 report looks at how organizations are viewing the challenges and opportunities of hybrid work as the need for a long-term plan to enable secure hybrid work has become increasingly paramount. The independent third-party research firm ONR interviewed 3,000 enterprise IT professionals from around the…
What Does “Zero Trust” Really Mean? Invented in 2010 by Forrester Research, Zero Trust is a cybersecurity model enterprises can leverage to remove risky, implicitly trusted interactions between users, machines and data. The Zero Trust model provides a process for organizations to protect themselves from threats no matter what vector the threat originates from—whether from…
Zero Trust is a strategic approach to cybersecurity that secures an organization by eliminating implicit trust and continuously validating every stage of digital interaction. The Zero Trust Model has become increasingly top of mind for executives who need to keep up with digital transformation and adapt to the ever-changing security landscape. Unfortunately, many organizations are…
By Sean Duca, Regional CSO, JAPAC In the early spring of 2020, as the world shifted to work remotely, security models used by many organizations were put to the test. Remote work was not a new thing, but never before had it been needed at the same scale and urgency. While many organizations used to…
There’s a simple reason why organizations have recently experienced so many new vulnerabilities and breaches. Over the past year, organizations transformed their endpoint environment, and yet they continue to manage and secure their new environments using legacy tools designed for legacy environments. What’s changed in the modern endpoint environment Historically, endpoint environments were relatively small,…
Consumer security awareness is on the rise in America. We should be grateful for that because apathy has a habit of breeding bad outcomes — for businesses, governments, and individuals. But public engagement is still not where it should be. Only one-third of Americans said defending against cyberattacks should be a top priority for the…