Frank J. Ohlhorst

Salesforce has experienced massive growth over the last few years and now ranks 137 on the Fortune 500. Simply put, it’s hard to ignore the impact Salesforce has had on the enterprise application market. Yet few seem to realize that there is a great deal of third-party development and customized code on the Salesforce platform, […]

Organizations are relying more and more on PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) certificates to protect critical resources. While that in essence is a good thing, the management of those certificates has become a potential cybersecurity nightmare. After all, PKI certificates are used for authenticating users, servers, or devices online, meaning that they are critical for establishing […]

Effectively securing and protecting Active Directory (AD) is an undeniable best practice for businesses today. Especially since some 90% of the world’s enterprise organizations are using AD as their primary method for authentication and authorization. AD’s enormous market share has made it a prime target for attackers. In fact, cyberattacks on AD are so prevalent […]

The term “As a Service” is growing in popularity among vendors, IT and cybersecurity managers. After all, if one can transform a burdensome siloed practice into a service, there are bound to be benefits to all concerned. What’s more, the concept of “As a Service” has been well proven by offerings such as SaaS (Software […]

On premise data storage is a lot like closet space: one can never seem to have enough! However, the arrival of cloud-based storage solutions has changed the dynamic. More storage is just a few clicks away, making data storage today more like a long term storage facility, where you pay for the space needed and […]

Managing networks has become more complex than ever before. Hybrid clouds, SD-WANs, off-premises solutions and the many other flavors of networking have made it almost impossible to get a full picture of network performance, activity and connectivity. Add to that the demands of the COVID-19 crisis, which has further distributed users across hundreds–if not thousands–of […]

The COVID-19 crisis has fueled a global shift to a remote work model, which has created myriad challenges and security concerns for enterprises. CSOs and those charged with cybersecurity are particularly concerned with the who, what, when, why and where of access. Elements that have become more complex to manage due to work-from-home policies and […]

Effectively battling threats requires actionable intelligence, something many organizations lack today. Typically, compromises or threats are only discovered sometime after an incident occurs, turning what should have been a defense into incident response. That lack of quick discovery potentially creates dark areas in IT, where lateral attacks, data exfiltration and other compromises can go on […]

While the lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may not be known for some time, businesses have realized that there are no certainties or guarantees that things will return back to normal. This realization impacts IT departments and staffers worldwide. Most small, medium and large enterprises had to rapidly embrace different operational mindsets, ones that […]

Recent cloud services compromises have demonstrated the importance of controlling identities for access to cloud-delivered services. Afterall, usurping identities has become one of the main attack vectors for cyber criminals today. However, identity information is usually stored in silos, which require management and synchronization across services, which can allow mistakes to go unnoticed and malicious […]

There is an old business axiom, one that states “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it,” a statement that proves very relevant to the challenges facing IT today. Perhaps one of the most important measurements for enterprises moving to the cloud is one of calculating how well cloud-enabled applications are running. This is […]

The global pandemic has forced many businesses to turn to the public cloud and its ability to support a remote and distributed workforce. However, moving to the cloud has exposed companies to compromises and cyberattacks against which most of them were unprepared to defend. Many of those problems can be attributed to one of the […]