Frank J. Ohlhorst

Many enterprises are going through the throws of digital transformation to expedite their movement into the cloud. However, with transformation comes challenges, namely in the form of reengineering applications that are not only efficient, but also secure. Palo Alto-based Data Theorem aims to proactively secure enterprise applications with its suite of products that potentially redefine […]

Cybersecurity is becoming something that everybody needs but no one wants to be responsible for. Nowhere is this more true than in the world of micro, small and medium businesses, where CISOs (chief information security officers) are a rarity and budgets are constrained, yet threats are on the rise. What’s more, the current Covid19 crisis […]

Enterprises are starting to recognize the importance of properly managing the lifecycle of identities, yet recognition alone is not the basis for solving identity governance challenges. Challenges have been amplified by numerous factors, such as adopting cloud services, meeting compliance requirements and enforcing security policy, while also supporting a mobile or remote workforce.  Perhaps the […]

A recent Forbes Insights survey of more than 200 CISOs found that talent and training constraints have a significant impact on security organizations. An observation that many enterprise IT leaders have started to agree with and extends beyond the realm of cybersecurity into other areas, such as DevOps, IT support, digital transformation, network management and […]

How can an enterprise today more effectively protect AD (Active Directory)? This is a relevant question for those managing network security. Research giant Forrester noted, “Having a strong control of privileges in an ever-evolving company is critical and one of the challenges that every CISO must tackle.” Even so, Forrester stated that “100% of corporations […]

Ransomware has become the scourge of many businesses and is likely not to disappear as a threat anytime soon. If anything, ransomware is on the rise, as evidenced by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which has observed an increase in ransomware attacks across the world so far this year. That proves to be […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven the remote access market to new heights. More and more enterprises are seeking secure ways to support remote contractors, temporary workers and other partners. However, most are finding that traditional VPN technology may not be up to the job of offering the security, performance and granular control needed. Simply put, […]

Enterprises are adopting SD-WAN (software-defined wide-area network) technology as a means to reduce costs, advance digital transformation, improve network resilience and move away from legacy network connectivity offerings, such as MPLS. [Editor’s note: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a routing technique in telecommunications networks that directs data from one node to the next based on […]

Network complexity is becoming one of the primary reasons for failure in the enterprise. After all, the more complex a network is, the more likely that there are blind spots, which often are only discovered in investigations appear after things have already gone awry in costly incidents leading to disruption. Today’s network managers are constantly […]

Cybersecurity hygiene has become one of the most important factors of protecting enterprise networks from intrusions, data theft and other malicious activities. Yet, many enterprise security staffers have come to rely on assumptions, as opposed to measuring the actual vulnerabilities that may impact their security posture. Simply put, assumptions are made based upon what patches […]

Certificates have become a necessary technology across the enterprise as a mechanism to keep things secure. However, managing digital certificates can be anything but easy. After all, there are numerous certificate authorities, different types of certificates, expiration dates, application integrations, certificate ownership, and numerous other bits of meta-data that must be managed and accounted for […]

New York City-based Kemp Technologies, known for its application delivery controllers and load balancers, is fully embracing the multi-cloud approach of application delivery. What’s more, the company is further developing its management and monitoring platforms to support heterogeneous environments that use ADCs from the likes of F5, NGINX, HAProxy and AWS (ELB).  The company is […]