Tenable Blog

It’s time to learn new ways from old. That was the theme for my recent keynote at the 2015 RSA Conference Asia Pacific and Japan last week in Singapore. Although my keynote specifically addressed why the Asia Pacific region can lead the next evolution of security, it’s an applicable message for all of us in the information security industry. Consider some challenges that affect all of us.

Just a few years ago, if you were planning a new infrastructure deployment to support new workloads, you would have expected questions related to architecture, networking, air conditioning, server room real estate and so on. But today you shouldn’t be surprised if the discussion quickly moves towards clouds, blue skies and space. I am, of course, referring to cloud services such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace.

BYOD, or Bring Your Own Death as some people jokingly refer to it, has been the bane of IT administrators’ lives ever since the first iPhone was released in 2007. Simply tracking these devices can be a challenge. And many believe mobile devices are a potential security risk. Respondents to a Ponemon State of the Endpoint Report 2015, 75% of administrators believe their mobile endpoints have been the target of malware over the past 12 months. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Why is it that 35% of all reported breaches in 2014 were in higher education?

There are multiple reasons, based on the complex environments in higher education institutions: