Accord Security Insights
Moving our Security Event Automation Library to Open Source
We have written extensively about the rapidly growing threat environment faced by mid-sized enterprises. The volume of security events that need to be carefully evaluated is increasing daily. On one hand, the mid-sized enterprise, with its unique IT solutions and...
My Tortured Relationship With Microsoft—and How They Won Me Back
Microsoft has Emerged as a Top Vendor of Enterprise Security Products In the IT world, Microsoft has long been the villain everyone loves to hate. This is especially true for IT security professionals. Given my own tortured relationship with the company, admitting...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cloud
I am not quite sure when exactly it happened, but over the past five years, the obligatory “in-house” data center painfully maintained by thousands of mid-sized organizations became a relic of the past. Starting with AWS an entire industry emerged to sell the basic...
Ransomware and Bitcoin
What do Ransomware and Bitcoin have to do with each other?2021 was a breakout year for ransomware attacks on businesses. Last year, CSO Magazine published a study showing that an overwhelming 85% of IT service providers reported ransomware against their customers....
Software-as-a-Service: A Silver Bullet that Comes with Risks
SaaS, Security-as-a-Service, or Software-as-a-Service. Call it what you may, but the vision behind these offerings is largely the same. Create a fancy app that performs some preventative, detective, or administrative security function, provide its output via a slick...