Getting from point A to point B in a car always seems to be a pretty easy proposition, at least until you’re behind the wheel and moving. On a map,...
The other day, my colleague Brett Bicker, who heads up comforte’s enterprise market development team, and I were on a Zoom call ready to record our...
None of us likes to be told what to do. Especially when what we’re being told (or ordered) to do is tedious, expensive, unexciting, or counter to...
Nov 23, 2021 l Data Protection, Data Discovery & Classification
A Few Points About Point Products for Protecting Private Data
One of the big challenges with implementing narrow point products for enterprise data security is that the IT ecosystem in which your data resides is...
You don’t have to go out of your way these days to learn about ongoing data breaches. You don’t have to pore over the online tech news sites with...
So here’s a philosophical question: is it better to try to prevent something unfortunate from happening, even if the prevention success rate is much...
Oct 28, 2021 l Data Protection, Zero Trust
4 Myths About Data-centric Security on the Journey to Zero Trust
If you’ve been tracking along with this entire blog series, you know that I’ve covered a lot of ground both technical- and business-wise. I started...
Oct 19, 2021 l Data Protection, Zero Trust
Starting with Data-centric Security: a Cost-Benefit Analysis
If you take a close look at the different reference architectures and best practices documents surrounding the Zero Trust methodology, you’ll find...
Oct 12, 2021 l Data Protection, Zero Trust
Applying Data-centric Security Early in your Zero Trust Initiative
My previous post in this series ended with a pretty definite statement: if data is all-important to hackers and other threat actors and is the...