News

12.03.2019

No matter how much money your company spends on security solutions, your most important defense is almost always the vigilance of your own team. The errant click on the malicious link, and the thumb drive found in the parking lot carrying malware have become almost cliché in this day and age.

11.25.2019

When a successful attack against your organization occurs, the required intervention must be both human and technological. The great irony of IT security is that, despite your best efforts, some form of successful attack is likely to happen at some point, no matter what you do.

11.12.2019

AVANT sees IT security deployed at three general levels, correlating not only to defensive tools, but also to the degree to which the organization establishes its own momentum around securing the enterprise and making sure key assets are safe. This approach has been spearheaded by Trustwave; an important AVANT technology partner in the IT security space.

10.29.2019

With all the media coverage around foreign governments and various types of state actors conducting cyber operations against other governments and corporations, you may be thinking that your company is in the clear and has nothing to worry about. Let’s take a quick test: If your company has no money, no creativity, no talent, no successful products, no major customers, and is basically on life support waiting to fold its tents, then congratulations!

10.22.2019

“The reason really excellent sports cars have really excellent brakes is so that they can go faster.” That little piece of counterintuitive wisdom comes from Jack Danahy, senior vice president for security at AlertLogic, one of AVANT’s key partners in the IT security space.