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Week of 10 August 2020
What NIST’s zero trust definition quietly required agencies to know
NIST’s zero trust guide is remembered for its diagrams. Its real legacy was a less visible list of things an agency has to know about itself first: its devices, its people, its data and its signals. No vendor could sell those.
Week of 3 August 2020
Capital One’s cloud penalty was a verdict on sequencing
The $80 million penalty against Capital One judged a bank that moved critical systems faster than it could describe, test and watch the risks it was taking on. It passed no verdict on the cloud itself.
Week of 13 July 2020
Schrems II and the case for deciding where data lives first
On July 16, 2020, Europe’s highest court struck down Privacy Shield and made the remaining contracts depend on case-by-case checks. Organizations that first decided where their data lived, and who held the keys, found the paperwork easier and rode out later swings in the law.
Week of 16 March 2020
Hairpin traffic, distant data centers and the road to federal zero trust
As Washington sent its workforce home in March 2020, the bottleneck was not laptops but a network built to haul every connection back through the office. Fixing it moved federal security away from location and toward who you are and what device you use.
Week of 17 February 2020
Morgan Stanley and E*Trade: wealth scale is a client-data problem
Morgan Stanley’s deal for E*Trade, months after Schwab agreed to buy TD Ameritrade, was a bet on serving clients across do-it-yourself, advised and workplace channels. Whether that scale pays off depends on three layers of integration, and knowing the client comes first.
Week of 20 January 2020
Citrix gateways: the most exposed system in the hospital
The Citrix flaw exploited in January 2020 revealed that the gateway clinicians used to reach patient records from outside was a hospital’s most exposed system. Securing it took a clear owner, walls behind it and a search for intruders after every fix.