Alex Jablokow

Username and password have long been the main method of authentication—and they remain so. But other authentication factors are often added to passwords to improve security. How well do these multi-factor authentication approaches work, and should businesses approach...

FIPS 140-2 is a requirements document that sets the minimum strength level for data encryption used in Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) federal operating environments. But its influence goes far beyond this significant but delimited area.

Virtualization creates virtual resources that can be used the same way as any physical resource or application. Disk drive partitioning is a familiar form of virtualization. Servers, networks, desktops, applications, and storage can all be virtual.

Automation replaces human work in repetitive, tedious tasks, and minimizes the number of errors.  With the right automation tools it is possible to automate browser tasks, web testing, and online data extraction, to fill forms, scrape data, transfer data between...

The cloud liberated computing power, applications, and data storage from reliance on specific hardware managed in a specific location. But the Cloud does typically exist in a specific location: a facility somewhere with racks of servers.

Cyber risk leads to financial risk, but cybersecurity is still often thought of as a technical rather than a business problem.

Increased use of cloud applications and other developments are transforming WAN implementations, improving security in the process.

Security information and event management (SIEM) software provides a way to track, integrate, and analyze the vast amount of log data that comes from an organization’s applications and network hardware. Its original value came from compliance reporting, but it is...

A hardware keylogger can be installed by anyone with access to the space and the nerve to do it.

Blockchain is rapidly increasing its reputation as a mechanism for faster payment services and greater data security.