Entries by RedSeal

Resilient regulation can help end the tech-consumer stalemate

The Hill | October 21, 2018

By Ray Rothrock, RedSeal CEO

The reason for the absence of meaningful dialogue and meaningful movement is that the two sides persist in choosing the wrong adjectives. They argue over preemptive federal legislation versus state legislation. They fight over tough legislation versus soft legislation.

What they should do is discard all of these modifiers and instead embrace, […]

FICO & US Chamber of Commerce Score Cyber-Risk Across 10 Sector

Dark Reading | October 16, 2018

Media, telecom, and technology firms are far more likely to experience a data breach in the near future than organizations in sectors including energy, construction, and transportation.

A score “taken from the outside looking in is similar to rating the fire risk to a building based on a […]

If You Protect Everything, Are You Protecting Anything?

Government Technology Insider | October 12, 2018

With Nate Cash, Senior Network Security Engineer

For decades, cybersecurity professionals have been tasked with protecting organizational IT assets, whether hardware, software, systems, or data. But have they been setting priorities for cybersecurity?

This is a monumental task, especially when the technology environment not only continues to change […]

DriveScale TechNow Podcast with Ray Rothrock

DriveScale TechNow Podcast | October 3, 2018

With Ray Rothrock, RedSeal CEO

In this edition of TechNow with Tom Lyon, Tom talks to Ray Rothrock, venture capitalist, nuclear engineer, cyber security expert, and current CEO of RedSeal, a firm that helps organizations quantify their digital resilience.

RedSeal Named 2018 Cloud Security Excellence Award Winner

TMC | October 1, 2018

TMC’s Cloud Computing Magazine has named RedSeal as a winner of their 2018 Cloud Computing Security Excellence Awards. The awards honor solutions in two categories: those that most effectively leverage cloud platforms to deliver network security, and those providing security for cloud applications.

Cloud Computing magazine is the industry’s definitive […]

Cybersecurity: Duck and Cover or Stand Up and Do Business?

CEOWORLD | October 1, 2018

By Ray Rothrock, RedSeal CEO

Cybersecurity isn’t working today.  In 2016, the Ponemon Institute reported that each of the 383 companies it surveyed had a “26 percent probability of a material data breach involving ten thousand lost or stolen records” within the “next twenty-four months.” Take this beyond two years—say […]

“Zero Trust” Is the Opposite of Business

Infosecurity Magazine| September 14, 2018

By Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

The term zero trust has been cropping up a lot recently, with even a small conference on the topic recently. It sounds like an ideal security goal, but some caution is warranted. When you step back and consider the reason security is important – keeping organizations […]

Big Companies Have An Achilles Heel

Cybersecurity Intelligence| September 10, 2018

“From a cybersecurity perspective, when you’re an insurance company and you’re writing a policy for somebody, how do you charge them for it? We measure the risk and give them the metrics to charge for that policy,” said Steve Timmerman, VP of marketing and business development at RedSeal, which offers enterprise […]

RedSeal Launches Remote Administrator Managed Service to Augment Customers’ Security Teams and Make Network Situational Awareness More Widely Available

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 10, 2018 — RedSeal, the leader in network modeling and cyber risk scoring, today introduced RedSeal Remote Administrator, a new managed service to augment customers’ security teams, make network situational awareness more widely available, and help customers increase their digital resilience.

Most enterprises have dozens of disparate security products in their environment, each […]

How do we build digitally resilient organizations?

CSO Online | September 4, 2018

So, what does a digitally resistant organization look like? In a recent column, Ray Rothrock, a CEO who has written a book on Digital Resilience, says: “Instead of cowering behind a wall and hoping for the best, those who lead digitally resilient businesses ensure that they know the strengths, weaknesses, […]