San Francisco Lockout – Found Guilty: the city or the admin?

After years of public acrimony and a 6 month trial, San Francisco IT administrator Terry Childs has been found guilty of hijacking the city’s computer system.  Cyber-Ark has always maintained that this was more than simply a case about a rogue employee, but in fact an example of an organizational failure in managing and effectively taking ownership of privileged accounts and identities.  At the end of the

The Darwinian Challenge of Cybersecurity

The adaptive nature of threats to information security has proven to be one of the greatest challenges to personal, business, and government adoption of computing in general, and communication of digital information over the public Internet, in particular. Today we are not only concerned with theft of private or sensitive information created and stored on ubiquitous personal computing and communications devices, we also have to be concerned with the security of our information while it is in transit and when it is in storage at its destination.