Drew Robb, Author at eSecurity Planet

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Drew Robb has contributed to eSecurity Planet and other TechnologyAdvice websites for more than twenty years. He’s covered every aspect of enterprise IT in his career, from the latest trends to in-depth product analysis. He is also the editor-in-chief of an international engineering magazine.

How to Mitigate Fourth-Party Security Risks

Networks

August 15, 2016

While security threats resulting from exposure to third-party partners are serious, security pros face an even tougher challenge from fourth-party security risks. What do we mean by fourth-party risks? Think of fourth parties as the “vendors of your vendors.” Everyone from Amazonian giants to small businesses uses subcontractors. According to a recent BitSight report of […]
What Does Whitelisting Mean?

Threats

September 24, 2014

The rising popularity of whitelisting boils down to simple math. With a relatively small number of malware items, it made sense to compile known virus signatures to detect and prevent infection. But with a huge increase in the volume of viruses and other forms of intrusion, it isn’t easy to keep virus signatures up to […]
How to Bake Better Security into Applications

Networks

October 17, 2013

Developers are being urged to create applications at an ever-faster pace, with many of them designed to operate on the Web or run on mobile devices. All of these factors open the door to security vulnerabilities. “When secure code practices are not part of development, you end up with data breaches, a large percentage of […]