If you listen very carefully, the age of information security as we know it ended recently, not with a bang, but with a whimper. While that may be something of an overstatement, a recent event put us on the track to that very end.
Consider the “old-way”: Your company decides to engage a vendor to provide services or products in which the vendor will have possession of, hosting of, access to, or other use of your sensitive data or interaction with your production systems. In those cases, a prudent company would do three things to address information security.
