Author: Reuven Harrison

It isn’t news that DevOps and IT security teams often struggle to align their departments and maintain a coherent balance between keeping a business secure and developing new applications to maintain customer interest.  While security processes are a necessity, they can be deemed by DevOps teams to be manual and cumbersome, blocking the agility that makes them so effective in bringing their solutions to market. IT teams conversely feel their counterparts are prepared to sacrifice security in the name of innovation and revenue. Even if both teams do respect the other’s intentions, any conflict could lead to delays in both…

 Point sadly proven – WannaCry ransomware (and the rest) shows why enterprises need to plan for chaos While the WannaCry ransomware infections now seem to be declining from their peak last month, the chaos following the global attack is far from over. The malware that swept around the world infected more than 300,000 computers in 100 countries, and continues to hit companies such as Honda, shutting down production. In the UK, NHS hospitals were particularly badly hit – possibly because of a reliance on an older version of Windows – and many are still dealing with the aftermath. Like many computer…

Hackers’ increasing sophistication means perimeter security is failing. Organisations must switch tactics and turn to tools which can stop intruders once they’re inside the network, argues Tufin’s Reuven Harrison. In the past, most companies felt the best way to minimise the risk of a data breach was to invest in better perimeter security defences such as antivirus software. They considered this “good enough” security and didn’t worry too much about what went on inside the firewall. But as the value of information stored our networks has become more valuable to hackers, the nature of attacks has become more targeted and…