INDUSTRY COMMENTARY

Secure Automation: Balancing Efficiency and Security
Steve Walsh Steve Walsh

Secure Automation: Balancing Efficiency and Security

Industries are racing to leverage the competitive advantages of automation, such as higher efficiency and output, reduced human error, prediction, and scalability. However, achieving cohesion between automation’s competitive advantages and associated security risks is a growing concern and challenge.

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How Zero-Day Chaining Challenges Traditional Security Tools
Steve Walsh Steve Walsh

How Zero-Day Chaining Challenges Traditional Security Tools

Gone are the days when cybercriminals relied on exploiting single-sided vulnerabilities easily detectable and mitigated by traditional perimeter controls, vendor patches, and a robust patching cadence. In today’s threat landscape, malicious cyber actors are focused on fostering persistent chaos and slowing down detection, analysis, and mitigation effects by increasing the probability and likelihood of cyber incidents by chaining multiple zero-day exploits.

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When “Enabling MFA” Isn’t Enough
Steve Walsh Steve Walsh

When “Enabling MFA” Isn’t Enough

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has become a popular security measure for protecting sensitive enterprise information. And while any implementation of MFA is better than none, many customers we talk to realize that MFA is not always enabled as it should be, but not all MFA methods are created equal.

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The DEX Show | Podcast #51
Steve Walsh Steve Walsh

The DEX Show | Podcast #51

A great conversation with Tom McGrath, covering how DEX tools can be transformational for not only automation but also compliance, experience, and support.

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ABOUT STEVE

Steve Walsh is a Senior Consultant for Ayla Consulting with nearly 20 years of enterprise IT experience spanning support, end user computing, DEX / XLA concepts, endpoint security and automation. While most of his consulting calls are around moving customers to modern endpoint management solutions, his current passion is around Digital Employee Experience (DEX) implementations and customers using End User Experience Management (EUEM) tools to drive employee satisfaction.



The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
— Steve Ballmer