In today’s threat landscape, cyber security isn't just an enterprise concern, nor is it entirely a government concern. To learn what that stance is and what security challenges government agencies are facing, we spoke to retired US Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton.

1. Cyber Security Lessons from
the NSA

2. In today’s threat landscape, cyber security isn’t just an
enterprise concern, nor is it entirely a
government concern.
In fact, enterprise and government cyber security go
hand in hand: corporate espionage can have
ramifications for national economies and foreign
relations, and cyber surveillance by national actors can
affect the enterprise as well.

3. To learn what the government stance on cyber security is
and what security challenges government agencies are
facing, we spoke to retired US Air Force Colonel Cedric
Leighton.

4. CipherCloud Exclusive Interview

5. The Present State of Cybersecurity

6. “The state of cybersecurity is a really dangerous area
right now…There’s no way that the standard
antivirus suites and the standard firewalls can
actually keep track of all that and have a
meaningful, really deterrent effect on any of these
different variants that are out there.”
Colonel Cedric Leighton
Former Deputy Training Director, NSA

7. The same holds true for the enterprise. Cloud computing is turning
traditional models of infrastructure security on their heads.
The enterprise perimeter has all but disappeared, and firewalls and
antiviruses are less than adequate to protect enterprise data and
resources in public cloud infrastructures, on mobile devices, or in
environments compromised by shadow IT.

8. What does This Mean for
Enterprises?

9. “Every business and even every individual is
vulnerable to cyber attacks today. It becomes very
important to weave in solutions such as
CipherCloud’s, because right now there is no
adequate policy from the federal government to
address this issue.”
Colonel Cedric Leighton
Former Deputy Training Director, NSA

10. In the enterprise, regulatory compliance is often a key cybersecurity
priority, with HIPAA, HITECH, GLBA, and PCI-DSS among the
most common regulatory burdens organizations must bear.
But compliance isn’t everything, as we learned from the Target
breach. Most data privacy regulations fall short of providing a truly
effective framework for data protection, due to the rapid rate of
technological development from both the security and cyber
criminal sides.

11. How Can Enterprises Address These
Issues?

12. “Look at solutions such as CipherCloud, because
they are going to be very important to securing data
and making sure that the data only goes to the
intended recipient and not to anybody else.”
Colonel Cedric Leighton
Former Deputy Training Director, NSA

13. Col. Leighton hits on the key point that enterprises must
understand when it comes to cloud data security: the fact that it has
to revolve around data security.
In a world where data is in constant motion and outside the
enterprise perimeter more often than not, any security measures
that do not directly secure the data itself leave that data vulnerable
to theft or exposure.
This makes technologies such as cloud encryption and
tokenization especially critical.

14. The Next Challenge for Cyber
Security?

15. “You need to find a way to find a bake in security that can evolve as
the threats evolve and that’s going to be the next challenge for the
cybersecurity industry.”
“I’m very confident that companies
like CipherCloud can do something in
that regards so that the infrastructure
can be protected the way it needs to be
protected.”
Colonel Cedric Leighton
Former Deputy Training Director, NSA

16. The truly security-minded organization must go beyond the basic
requirements outlined by data privacy regulations if it wants to
keep its information secure from attackers.
In this day and age, protecting your data means securing your data.
One backdoor in one router may be all it takes to bypass cloud data
security measures, leading to a breach. For true cloud data
protection, you must lock your data down no matter where it goes.

17. Watch Interview Video: Cyber Security Lessons from the NSA
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