Recent Posts by Sridhar Karnam

RSA Conference is the world's largest cyber security conference with over 30,000 attendees taking over the city of San Francisco for a week to discuss, debate, and solve the cyber security challenge. RSA kicks off with Atlanta being under siege, 911 calls being stopped in Baltimore, Facebook being questioned by the Congress for the privacy issues, Uber, Grindr, Boeing disclosed data breaches, attacks on US grid, US tax filing vendor software, and 40,000 other data breach...

A report from an independent global survey of 730 IT professionals demonstrates how cloud disrupts management, security, and compliance. Click here to read the full report. This gives you a great insight into how a cloud is changing systems management and security in the hybrid IT world. Negin Aminian who runs the product marketing security at Oracle says that “Cloud is the solution for these 5 major themes”. She adds that “We have a better together story with management...

Compliance and regulations have been a key driver of security for a long time. The compliance, for the most part, is doing the least amount of work for the most checkboxes. The regulations have gotten more stringent with data breaches, and the fines and even jail time have been added to some regulations such as HIPAA and PII data breaches. This changed the dynamics of how compliance is viewed. Now with GDPR kicking in with fines up to 4% of global revenue, the game now gets...

As organizations move workloads and infrastructure to the cloud, legacy security solutions are not adequate to detect and prevent today’s modern threats. Cyber criminals can quickly compromise and infiltrate organizations by using stolen credentials and exploiting vulnerabilities in mis-configured systems. Let's start with a simple list of top 5 reasons to move your security to the cloud. The complexity of the on-prem security tools: Long or failed deployments of security...

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Building on a multi-year investment to define and provide the next generation of cybersecurity and systems management solutions, we are announcing today the availability of the industry’s first cloud-native, intelligent, Security and Management suite. Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics (SMA) Cloud Services is a cloud-based, integrated solution that combines the capabilities of SIEM, UEBA, security configuration management, and compliance on the same platform that has...

Oracle's Larry Ellison takes on Splunk in his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2017, in front of a cheering 60,000 crowd.   Larry Ellison announced a major enhancement to Oracle Management Cloud, where Oracle has been investing for several years, to build a unified platform for SecOps, DevOps, and IT Ops. Larry highlighted that his vision is to provide an "Automated Cyber Defense System" with an IT industry's fastest-growing segment, known as the cloud systems management and...

In this new IT 2.0 world, the data is the new oil. It's protection and governance is critical. Companies like Arthur Anderson, Enron, and Equifax changes the regulation landscape every ten years or so. Just like how every airline-crash teaches us the new best practice and hence the regulations for the safety of the passengers and crew, many major security incidents have been teaching us also, a better way to run the digital business. IT compliance is very critical and is...

Let's not worry about North Korea, China, or Russian NationState hackers until you got your basic security configurations right. Verizon's DBIR 2017 report says that 76% of the attacks were caused by misconfiguration alone. Gartner recommended in 2011 that a security configuration is a must-have tool. SANS Institute recommends that its #3, #4, and #11 critical security controls, in their version 6.0 (2017), are the configuration of end-devices, vulnerability assessments, and...