Dave Cartwright

Interconnected and distributed systems have made the role of APIs critical to enabling discreet connectivity between systems but can create additional risk. By Dave Cartwright, CISSP Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are notoriously difficult to secure, particularly if they are internet-facing. As one source puts it: “APIs are designed to facilitate communication between different systems and applications, which means they are inherently exposed to various external actors.

As malware spreads from IT to OT, the focus is shifting from business interruptions to physical harm, with the final responsibility resting with the CEO. Amid this fundamental change in threat and attack strategy, organizations need to focus on asset-centric cyber-physical systems and ensure teams are in place to handle monitoring and management of these key systems. By Dave Cartwright, CISSP Cybersecurity professionals are used to defending IT systems against malware and other cyber attacks.

By Dave Cartwright, CISSP Cloud-first strategies now the norm for most businesses, but in the rush to go cloud, mistakes were made. We look at the five biggest cloud mistakes, so you don’t repeat them. The cloud is here to stay. The days are gone of senior managers seeing the cloud as a security-risky “someone else’s network” whose security and uptime can’t be relied upon. Even risk-averse markets such as banking are adopting cloud-first strategies.