IDRRA Benchmark - free and available to all!

In just a short period of time, the closed beta of IDRRA Benchmark has proven to be a resounding success.  We at IDRRA have decided to offer IDRRA Benchmark to everyone.  Join thousands of others and securely benchmark your security architecture for free:  https://www.idrra.com/benchmark/.  We have lots of great things planned, so be sure to return and visit us often!

Marketing Security Solutions: Is There a Better Way?

Security marketing seems to be stuck in a bit of a “spray and pray” rut.  Perhaps the time has come for security vendors to rethink how they invest their marketing budgets?  I discuss in my latest SecurityWeek piece: http://www.securityweek.com/marketing-security-solutions-there-better-way.  Hope you find this piece interesting.

20 Tactical Questions SMB Security Teams Should Ask Themselves

How can small and medium-sized businesses ensure that they make tactical progress against their strategic plans?  While no guidance could ever be fully complete, I examine this topic in my latest DarkReading piece: https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/20-tactical-questions-smb-security-teams-should-ask-themselves/a/d-id/1329629?.  I hope you will find it helpful.

Interested in learning how to speak to management about security?

Interested in learning how to speak to management about security?  If so, I'd love for you to join me on this upcoming DarkReading webinar with PhishMe: https://webinar.darkreading.com/3379?keycode=sbx&cid=smartbox_techweb_upcoming_webinars_8.500000761.  Hope to see you there!

Interested in joining the IDRRA Benchmark beta program?

Over the next few weeks, we at IDRRA will expand the IDRRA Benchmark beta program.  If you are an enterprise security team (whether small, medium, or large) and are interested in securely benchmarking your security architecture alongside hundreds of other companies, we would love to have you join the beta program!

If interested, please drop me a note (josh@idrra.com), and we'll set up a time to discuss the details.  And, of course, feel free to share this post with others who might be interested in joining the beta program as well.  Thank you!

What are security buyers looking for?

What, exactly, are security buyers looking for?  It's an interesting question, isn't it?  At the same time, it may be an extremely difficult question to answer, at least if we don't have the right information available to us.  I discuss this topic in my latest SecurityWeek piece: http://www.securityweek.com/what-are-security-buyers-looking.  I think you may be a bit surprised by the content of the piece.

20 Questions for Improving SMB Security

It's time to play 20 questions again.  In this installment, I take a look at an area that doesn't get nearly enough attention in my opinion.  What area could that be?  Security in small and medium-sized businesses:  https://www.darkreading.com/20-questions-for-improving-smb-security/a/d-id/1329423?.  My hope is that the SMB community will find this piece helpful.