Eoin Higgins

1 week ago | itbrew.com | Eoin Higgins

Threat actors are taking aim at the financial tech sector and upping the ante when it comes to email attacks. That’s according to research from Abnormal Security that found increases year over year in advanced email attacks (23%) and phishing (17%), with business email compromises largely staying stable. Surprisingly, the most successful attacks are ones that ask for a simple favor.

1 week ago | itbrew.com | Eoin Higgins

Tech is more than an industry; it’s a national security prerogative. So, why is the sector’s federal procurement system—how the government works with outside sources to acquire goods and services—stuck in the past? That’s a question Steven Aberle, CEO and founder of Rohirrim, has been asking himself lately. Rohirrim is a procurement and request for proposal (RFP) solutions AI company and Aberle a former government contractor.

1 week ago | itbrew.com | Eoin Higgins

As a child, Tom Gillis had one parent who was an engineer and one who was a musician. His father worked at Raytheon while his mother was a concert pianist who played with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But music, while a joy, wasn’t encouraged as a career. “She used to say to me, I want you to love music, appreciate music, but I forbid you to make it your living,” Gillis told IT Brew. “And of course, I’m like, okay, cool, I’ll be an engineer.

2 weeks ago | itbrew.com | Eoin Higgins

If you’re in cybersecurity, you’ve heard nonstop about the attack surface. But what if the surface is more of an atmosphere? That’s what some experts in the field are saying as the shape and location of attacks is changing. An attack atmosphere is more accurate, the theory goes, because it encompasses myriad threats. Chris Goettl, VP of product management at Ivanti, told IT Brew that the atmosphere term is a shift in mindset to understand the environment as a whole.

2 weeks ago | itbrew.com | Eoin Higgins

Contracting out work to third-party IT vendors is often challenging. From licensing issues, regulations forcing companies to submit multiple bids, and the arcane art of negotiation, anything could make or break a deal. And there’s also the possibility of threat-surface expansion. But there are ways to make the process easier. Vendors are important because there are many things that companies need to do that would be better to have a third party manage.