5 Reasons You Should See a DSPM This Valentine’s Day

| | Blog
It’s time to embrace the season of love and connection. Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to reevaluate our relationships—not just personally, but professionally and technologically as well. In the vast and ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, our engagements with tools and solutions require just as much consideration. This Valentine’s Day, ... Read More
Least Privilege for Data: A Balancing Act

Least Privilege for Data: A Balancing Act

| | Best Practices, Blog
Like other CISO’s, I have long had a love and hate relationship with the principle of Least Privilege. I love the measurable benefits that could be achieved by aiming for least privilege. You can quickly reduce the attack surface by simply removing accounts, roles, services, privileges, and permissions. Hell everything ... Read More
The Perils of Platformization

The Perils of Platformization

| | Blog, strategy
#TLDR CISOs continually have to choose between best of breed security vs Platformization and further consolidation of vendors. The emergence of ERP tools presented a similar choice and most ERP projects have ended up as expensive failures. Open Integration is a better alternative today. Cloud providers are driving security products ... Read More

Five New Year Resolutions to Secure Your Data in 2024

Have you kicked off the new year with a bang? Determined to make this a year to remember for all the right reasons? As we accelerate into 2024, let’s talk about some meaningful New Year resolutions. Not the usual promises to hit the gym more (though that’s not a bad ... Read More

Preparing for the Holiday Ransomware Storm

| | Blog
This article was originally published on Spiceworks.  The holiday season is upon us. As we approach the end of 2023, it should be a time for festive cheer for all. Unfortunately for cybersecurity teams across the globe, their holidays are more often filled with stress and long hours responding to ... Read More

Preparing for the Holiday Ransomware Storm

This article was originally published on Spiceworks. The holiday season is upon us. As we approach the end of 2023, it should be a time for festive cheer for all. Unfortunately for cybersecurity teams across the globe, their holidays are more often filled with stress and long hours responding to ... Read More

Symmetry Systems’ Feature-Packed Year: A Milestone in Modern Data Security

Symmetry Unveils Groundbreaking Major Product Features in 2023 to Redefine Enterprise Data Security. Symmetry Systems, a modern AI-powered data security company, is proud to celebrate a successful 2023 filled with great customer outcomes, product updates, and a roadmap to place data and identities at the heart of enterprise security.  Cybersecurity ... Read More

Navigating Public Company Cybersecurity Disclosures

Transparency in the disclosure of cybersecurity incidents for public companies is no longer good practice – it’s now a regulatory necessity. The imminent requirement for public companies to disclose current material cybersecurity incidents is set to reshape the disclosure landscape for public companies. It brings forth a myriad of considerations ... Read More
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Six Common AWS CloudTrail Mistakes You Need to Avoid

| | Amazon S3, AWS CloudTrail, Blog
AWS CloudTrail is an critical service for organizations using AWS, providing visibility into the actions performed in your AWS accounts. This visibility and monitoring of actions is vital to improving the security and compliance of your cloud. At Symmetry, an AWS Security Competency Partner, we use AWS CloudTrail to: As ... Read More

2024 Data Security Predictions: Charting a Course

As we stand on the horizon of another transformative year in cybersecurity, it’s time to peer into the future. We gathered around our crystal ball and forecast events, accelerating trends and looming decisions that will shape our industry.  As we do every year, we developed a set of predictions about ... Read More