Increasing amounts of breaches. Increasing amounts of threats. How are you handling it?

Another week... another set of breaches.  Yesterday, Facebook released core information around removing bad actors from their network.  Today, Reddit announced that they were breached back in 2007. Tomorrow... who knows? I’ve had the fortune of working in Information Technology for over 20 years.  In that time, I’ve realized that this industry is constantly evolving. However, the recent and rapid adoption of cloud-based services has caused a disruption at a magnitude that I had not yet seen.  Unfortunately, it is also happening at a rate that isn’t properly allowing Information Security groups to properly gauge the security ramifications. When I first entered this industry, networks were far easier to secure.  We had differentiating operational goals, but what we secured were largely single, flat, and enormous networks with only a handful of entry points.  All data and assets lived within that one or two physical environments with their own dedicated controls.…

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