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Song for an age of witty pseudo-warriors...
by Tim Bayly on August 27, 2016 - 12:43pm
Since I started the two posts on Sobran put up a little while ago, I've had this song playing in a loop, turned up real loud like it's a war-song and the warriors are all men.
It's a fitting song for Sobran, but not for Buckley. When a real warrior leaves the battlefield, it's not his wit or vocabulary the men who stayed back home with the women and children remark over. It's the smell of blood and death, and he can't wash them off.
Lead on, O King eternal...
by Tim Bayly on December 6, 2015 - 7:19pm
by Tim Bayly on July 26, 2015 - 5:57pm
You, dear readers, answered my request and fully funded the $9,000 needed by Lions Among Lambs to record the first ten Psalms in their commitment to write and record musical settings for all 150 psalms. And it was funded before I went to bed Friday evening, as I requested. Thank you so very much.
The Kickstarter campaign is now oversubscribed to the tune of $10,800 ($1,800 over) and this gives us joy. Every extra dollar will be used for further work on this project. With love,
Lions Among Lambs: get in while you still can...
Actually, after posting this I was informed by Jody that the goal has been reached and exceeded. Praise God and thank you, dear brothers and sisters!
Since I asked readers to contribute yesterday, $1,000 of the $1,500 still needed to fully fund the recording of Psalms 1-10 has been given. That means you can still finish the work by giving towards the $578 still needed. Please do it now. I would like to go to bed tonight knowing Baylyblog readers lifted this good work over the top.
A warm thank you to all who help.
A Modern Psalter...
by Jody Killingsworth on July 20, 2015 - 8:56am
What could be more important to the reform of our churches and homes than restoring God's Word to the center of worship? And, outside of preaching, what better way to go about this than reintroducing the forgotten practice of singing the Psalms?
We're embarking on an exciting adventure, and we're inviting all of you here at Baylyblog to share in it with us. Just this spring some of the musicians and songwriters here in Bloomington teamed up with a handful of worship leaders from Indianapolis and Toledo to begin work on producing a modern psalter for our churches and homes. In just a few short months, we finished multiple versions of the first ten psalms, and now we're looking to record them and produce charts and lead sheets, made available entirely for free.
We want to encourage a revival of Psalm singing in our churches, but we need your help. So we launched a Kickstarter project. Check out the video below, and then head over to Kickstarter to sample more of our work (see the videos at the bottom of the page), check out the rewards we're offering, and see how you can help. If nothing else, do us a favor and pre-order the digital album for only $10 or hardcopy for $25. And if you're a pastor, be sure you take notice of the sweet deal you can get your church on booking a concert...
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His final word...
by Tim Bayly on May 17, 2015 - 8:33am
His Final Word
I'm standing on the promise of
The Lamb at Calvary
Who undertook the offices
Of Prophet, Priest, and King
To live forever at the throne
Of God to intercede
He wrote in blood His Covenant:
"This child belongs to Me"
Each week as I prepare to preach, I listen to recordings made by our worship musicians of the music we sing in our worship services and thus I am strengthened for my work. Just now, six minutes before our first worship service. I'm listening to an original composition called "His Final Word." Scroll down and sing along.
A new version of Blessed Mary's Magnificat...
by Tim Bayly on December 22, 2014 - 12:18pm
If you missed both nights of Clearnote Church, Bloomington's Christmas Spectacular, here's a song from the evenings. It's a new version of Blessed Mary's Magnificat, one of the new songs Good Shepherd Band just issued on their new CD, All the Bells Shall Ring . If you're a worship leader, we've put up all the chord charts and lead sheets, and you'll find them online at Clearnote Songbook. Take a look.
How blessed is the man...
Another song from Clearnote Songbook. It's a setting of Psalm 1 written by Pastor Jody Killingsworth. Give it a listen and then use it in your worship. Excellent.
An antidote to AC/DC's highway to Hell...
by Tim Bayly on November 12, 2014 - 12:11pm
Songs of death, Hell, and judgment used to be common. Some from the Colonial times are astounding in their directness. It was not only Jonathan Edwards who preached of Hell; the hymnody did, also. We live in an decadent age, though, and church music demonstrates that decay has corrupted our songs, also, and not just the songs of the Devil explicitly so like Imagine, Sympathy for the Devil, and Highway to Hell. Where is any mention of Hell or the Devil equivalent to Luther's "and tho this world with devils filled" and "the prince of darkness grim" in the CCM industry today?
The classically trained musicians who lead our Clearnote Church worship wrote an antidote and here it is. Spread it far and wide. Download it and get your sons singing it while they draw pictures or shoot their slingshots at the rabbits and squirrels.
"All the Bells Shall Ring" on Amazon, iTunes; release party tonight...
by Tim Bayly on November 7, 2014 - 4:59pm
Today is release day! Get a copy of Good Shepherd Band's latest CD, "All the Bells Shall Ring" on Amazon , iTunes, and goodshepherdband.com
Here's a kind review of the CD written by Pastor Andrew Dionne. Would you please encourage our musicians (and me) by purchasing a copy of this CD, now. And if you like it, give it as a Christmas gift. Also, if you're in or around Bloomington, we hope we'll see you tonight for the Release Party down at The Pourhouse Cafe (314 East Kirkwood Avenue) starting at 7 PM.
Christmas comes early...
by Aaron Jones on October 27, 2014 - 11:56pm
I'm excited to post a small sampling of the new Christmas album (vol. 2) from Good Shepherd Band. The whole album will be available Friday, November 7th. If you happen to be near Bloomington, there will be a live concert at the The Pourhouse Cafe (314 E Kirkwood) that same day, Friday November 7 at 7pm.
Here's a special pre-release (tracks 4 and 6) just for our Baylyblog readers:
Come one! Come all!
by Philip Moyer on November 26, 2013 - 3:25pm
Every December Clearnote Church sets aside a special evening of worship and fellowship called the Clearnote Christmas Spectacular. It's a night for pulling out all the stops in celebration of the Incarnation of our Lord, where centuries old traditions intersect with contemporary style. This year we've come up with a few surprises that will make the night truly spectacular!
Here's a little taste...
Men shout joyfully...
by Tim Bayly on January 6, 2013 - 8:25am
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. - Psalms 95:2
It's hard for me to explain to those not present among us the Scriptural zeal and spiritual power God has granted our male musicians as they lead our worship each week here at Clearnote Church. And no, our musical leadership is not exclusively male. Just overwhelmingly male. Which is as it ought to be.
Those who give over the leadership of the congregation's songs of Zion to women must be suffering a terrible poverty of men; or they're lacking the most basic understanding of the nature and meaning of godly leadership and their musical worship suffers for it. Don't ask them how, though: they've been acclimated and now consider it an asset.
But back to our Sons of Asaph: the fruit of their leadership among us is overwhelming and, today, it is one of the principal joys of my life as I serve in this wonderful calling of the pastorate.
Each week as I enter the pulpit to preach the Word of God...
Announcing ClearnoteSongbook.com...
To reform the Church is to reform her worship.
Everything about our worship indicates our reverence, zeal, and love toward the Triune God; or alternately, our flippancy and indifference. Hearts aflame for God cry out for men to preach the Word, read Scripture, pray, and sing Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with zeal. Sadly, though, worship today is aimed at the mind or the heart. It's intellect or passion--never both. When there is zeal, it's rarely "in accordance with knowledge." And those claiming knowledge make a principle out of their absence of zeal.
Five hundred years ago, John Calvin worked to reform every part of the Church's worship. We must give ourselves to this same work today.
That's why I'm very thankful to announce ClearnoteSongbook.com. The men behind the Songbook--Jody Killingsworth, Philip Moyer, and the Good Shepherd Band, along with Ben Crum, Joseph Bayly, and Lucas Weeks--have put together a site that is a call to reform our worship. The Clearnote Songbook is jam-packed with goodies to help in that work...
Musical worship must be manly...
by David and Tim Bayly on February 3, 2012 - 8:33am
How do you get men to sing in worship? And I mean really sing.
Sing of God's judgment. Of His justice triumphing over wicked men...
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Another good review...
by David and Tim Bayly on December 5, 2011 - 7:46am
Here's an excerpt from another review of Good Shepherd Band's Repeat the Sounding Joy:
"Until three weeks ago I had never heard of the band from Bloomington, Indiana, but currently this album holds a firm spot in what I consider to be the most Christ-centered and worshipful of Christmas records.
"In a season where vapid holiday fluff by the likes of Mariah Carey can be heard cycling the local radio stations, Repeat the Sounding Joy is a welcomed proclamation of the coming of Jesus put to creatively beautiful musicianship." (read on)
If you haven't yet bought a copy for yourself or your loved ones, why not do it now? (TB)
Good Shepherd Band's Christmas CD reviewed...
by David and Tim Bayly on December 1, 2011 - 12:40pm
Here's an excerpt from a nice review of Good Shepherd Band's latest CD, "Repeat the Sounding Joy:"
(Repeat the Souning Joy) is definitely heads and shoulders above most of the Christmas music you'll hear this season. I make a mix for my mom every year called Christian Music That Doesn't Suck for those times I ride in the car with her... (to continue reading)
If you haven't bought a copy for yourself yet, do it now. And get some more copies for your friends and loved ones. It will encourage our men in their work here at ClearNote Church, Bloomington. (TB)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING: Mary's song in a limestone mill, with crickets...
Woolery Stone Mill is the limestone mill where the Empire State Building's facade was cut; also where Breaking Away's mill scenes were shot. The place is now largely abandoned but there are two connections to ClearNote Church, Bloomington, that might interest readers.
First, about ten years ago our head elder, J Lee, and I went through the mill and it's office building considering purchasing them both to house our church and a church-school. Given the massive scale of the mill, though, we gave it up. Now we have a 220 acre farm, instead. (Yes, I'm chuckling.)
More recently the mill was the site where this glorious video recording of Mary's Song was filmed. It's a high definition video and it serves as the perfect introduction to the CD, Repeat the Sounding Joy, released a week ago. What a fitting setting for Mary''s Song--outside/inside a stone mill, with crickets.
Give a listen to the video. It you knew the musicians, the video might bring tears to your eyes as it does to Mary Lee's and mine. Tears of joy for God's kindness in allowing us to be led in worship each week by humble men and women who, like Mary, are wonderful instruments of God's grace in our lives. Gloria!
Good Shepherd Band releases "Repeat the Sounding Joy"...
by David and Tim Bayly on November 11, 2011 - 12:00am
Today I am pleased to announce the release of "Repeat the Sounding Joy"—a new album of Christmas carols by our Good Shepherd Band. This recording is the culmination of five years of creative work on the part of our musicians. The crucible for that work has been our annual Christmas Sing-A-Long. Every December, we hold a special evening service in celebration of the Incarnation of our Lord. It's a kind of contemporary take on the traditional Lessons and Carols service...
Free music and a little history lesson...
by David and Tim Bayly on November 3, 2011 - 7:10am
Our Good Shepherd Band is giving away a free track today from their forthcoming Christmas album, Repeat the Sounding Joy. This is "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" like you've never heard it. And I'm not just referring to the pizzazz-y arrangement. There's actually a whole verse making its world debut here. Well, sort of.
Originally, "Hark!" had ten four line stanzas. Thanks to George Whitfield, who took the liberty of tweaking and republishing Wesley's hymn (much to Wesley's chagrin), most of us know "Hark!" in Whitfield's revised, three-verse form. For their own rendition, the band harkened back to Wesley's original and constructed a hybrid fourth verse from portions of his seventh through tenth stanzas. Here is that "new" verse…


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Make a grayscale copy of the image. I'll call this image #2.
High-pass filter image #2 with a radius of one pixel.
Apply a Gaussian blur to image #2 with a radius of one pixel.
Adjust the Threshold Level one click at a time until just the stars are white and everything else is black.
In the original image, in the Channels Palette, create a new channel. Name it "Stars." Choose "color indicates masked areas."
Paste image #2 into this channel.
Make just the RGB channels visible (i.e. make the Stars channel invisible).
In the original image, invoke Select->Load Selection. Choose the Stars channel you just created.
Invoke Select->Expand and expand the selection by a few pixels (e.g., three).
Start painting. Avoid obvious stars and much of the core. The HII regions should be obviious. You can either paint continuously or just click repeatedly. To see your progress, just click the "eyeball" on the top B/W H-a image to hide it. You will now see the areas that you painted with additional red saturation. Don't worry about the color being too strong at this point. Just color all the HII regions that you have or want to accentuate.
Again, if you don't delete the top H-al layer, you will have 4 layers - from bottom to top, the LRGB layer, the H-a layer with its "hide all" layer mask, the hue/saturation clipping layer and the B/W H-a layer that you used to guide your painting into the "hide-all" layer mask.


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Study Provides New Insights into the Genetics of Drug-Resistant Fungal Infections
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Researchers at WPI, the Broad Institute, and Tel Aviv University report their results in the journal eLife
A study by a multidisciplinary research team, co-directed by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), offers new insights into how virulent fungi adapt through genetic modifications to fight back against the effects of medication designed to block their spread, and how that battle leaves them temporarily weakened. These insights may provide clues to new ways to treat notoriously difficult-to-cure fungal infections like thrush and vaginitis.
The team studied patients infected with the fungus Candida albicans (C. albicans), which causes common yeast infections and more serious bloodstream infections, who were being treated with fluconazole, one of the primary anti-fungal drugs now in use. They found that the fungus undergoes 240 genetic changes associated with drug resistance. But those changes come with a cost, they discovered. As it battles to overcome the effects of the drug, the fungus becomes weaker, with a reduction in the traits associated with virulence. The discoveries may point toward new targets for research and the potential to develop new classes of therapeutics for hard-to-treat fungal infections.
The project was co-directed by Reeta Rao, PhD, associate professor of biology and biotechnology at WPI; Dawn Thompson, PhD, and Aviv Regev, PhD, of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; and Judith Berman, PhD, of Tel Aviv University. They report their findings in the paper "The evolution of drug resistance in clinical isolates of Candida albicans," published by the open-access journal eLife.
"Virtually all humans are colonized with Candida albicans, but in some individuals this benign organism becomes a serious, life-threatening pathogen," the team wrote. "Here, we used genome sequencing of isolates sampled consecutively from patients that were clinically treated with fluconazole to systematically analyze the genetic dynamics that accompany the appearance of drug resistance during oral candidiasis [infection]. Most of the genes in these clusters are not well characterized and represent new candidates involved (in) drug resistance and adaptation to the host environment."
In an accompanying eLife "Insight" piece commenting on the importance of the C. albicans drug resistance study, two researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, wrote: "The work provides a global description of the genetic processes underlying drug resistance and adaptation in C. albicans. Of note, all sequencing data have been made publicly available, which is an unprecedented resource for the research community."
Thrush and vaginitis, common yeast infections caused by C. albicans, typically do not cause serious harm, but can become chronic due to a lack of drugs that can completely clear the pathogen. If a fungal infection spreads to the bloodstream (for example, via catheters or central intravenous lines), it can be deadly. Patients with compromised immune systems or implanted medical devices like pacemakers or prosthetic hips or knees, are also at greater risk for serious systemic fungal infections, which have a mortality rate between 30 and 50 percent.
In the current study, researchers sequenced the DNA and tested samples of C. albicans collected from patients with HIV who also had thrush and were being treated with fluconazole. The "azole" family of drugs do not kill the fungi—they limit growth by disrupting a protein in the yeasts' outer membrane. In many cases, some C. albicans organisms overcome the effects of fluconazole and continue to cause an infection.
Using next-generation DNA sequencing technology, the team looked for changes at the genetic level in 43 samples of C. albicans collected from the 11 patients over ten months. By sampling fungi from the same patients over time, researchers identified genetic mutations that correlated with the fungi's evolving ability to overcome the effects of fluconazole in those patients. The results revealed changes in genes associated with the structure of fungi's outer membrane and the activity of molecular pumps that can eject the drug from the yeast's cells. Numerous other genetic mutations were found to be prevalent as drug resistance increased, though the functional impact of those changes is not known.
The DNA sequencing and genomic analysis was done at the Broad Institute and Tel Aviv University. At WPI, Rao's lab tested the fitness and virulence of the C. albicans strains in the 43 samples. Those experiments found an inverse relationship between increased drug resistance and the ability of C. albicans to survive or cause additional infection. "At first that may seem counterintuitive, but it's actually a logical finding," Rao said. "It shows there is a fitness cost involved in overcoming the effect of the drug. C. albicans devotes more energy to battling the drug, so it becomes less fit and unable to cause infection until it has figured out how to overcome the effect of the drug."
Studying that window of vulnerability, when the fungus is weaker and less likely to cause more infection but not fully resistance to the drug, becomes an interesting opportunity to explore, Rao noted. Also, much more work is needed to understand the specific impact of the 240 genetic mutations found to be associated with drug resistance. Furthermore, understanding how C. albicans evades fluconazole may shed light on how some cancer cells develop resistance to current therapies because "the evolution of drug resistance in C. albicans has many parallels with the somatic evolution of cancer cells undergoing chemotherapy or treated with specific inhibitors," the authors wrote.


John Delaney has 'offered to voluntarily step aside' from his position as Executive Vice-President of the FAI, pending completion of an indepedent investigation by the FAI board.
Speculation this weekend had been rife that Delaney, who joined the association as Treasurer in 2001, would depart his role as Executive Vice-President - the FAI confirmed the news in a statement this evening.
However, it has been confirmed that the Waterford native will continue in his role as a UEFA executive. That arrangement that would last until 2021, as Delaney would not be able to seek re-election unless he was titled as President, Vice President, CEO or General Secretary with his national governing body.
One of a number of FAI representatives when the association went before an Oireachtas committee last Wednesday, Delaney's presence was notable for his general unwillingness to engage with questions put to him by committee members.
Opting to read aloud from a prepared statement, questions pertaining to a €100,000 bridging loan lent to the FAI by then CEO John Delaney in 2017 were left unanswered; Delaney citing "legal advice" as reason for his silence on the matter.
For a full breakdown of the FAI's appearance before the Oireachtas committee on Wednesday afternoon, click here.
In the aftermath of Wednesday's committee meeting, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was among those calling for John Delaney to demonstrate clarity regarding the nature of the loan. However, Varadkar was careful to state the Executive Vice-President of the FAI was under no legal obligation to do so.
"I don't think anyone would be satisfied by it," Varadkar noted of Delaney's responses to questions in the Oireachtas.
"The truth is that he was within his legal rights not to answer those questions. He is not a public servant and therefore is not accountable to the Oireachtas.
"However, the FAI is accountable to the Office of the Director for Corporate Enforcement and is accountable to Sport Ireland for the money they get."
Appointed Chief Executive Officer of the FAI on a full-time basis in 2005, Delaney had previously served as the Treasurer of the organisation from 2001.
For a detailed breakdown of John Delaney's rise to power within the Football Association of Ireland, you can watch Off the Ball's Eoin Sheahan offer a brief synopsis of Delaney's journey within football administration below.
A further look into Eoin's account of Delaney's influence over Irish football can be viewed here.
Exploring the role played by the former CEO of the FAI in greater detail, Joe Molloy discussed the matter with Daniel McDonnell and Kieran Cunningham in a video you can now watch below.


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Q: Converting RGB/Brush to Hexadecimal value So, In my program I have 3 sliders, SliderRed, SliderGreen, Slider Blue. They all have a maximum value of 255. The control called EndColor changes colors correctly when I move the sliders but I haven't figured out a way to get the hexcode.text (Textblock) to convert the brush or color into a hexadecimal value such as #FF0000.
What should I be using for this to work?
public void SliderChanged()
{
    byte r = byte.Parse(sliderRed.Value.ToString());
    byte g = byte.Parse(sliderGreen.Value.ToString());
    byte b = byte.Parse(sliderBlue.Value.ToString());

    EndColor.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb(255, r, g, b));
    hexcode.Text = EndColor.Background.ToString(); //Something like this
}

All I need is the hexcode.Text to show a hexadecimal value.

A: Firstly let me point out that, assuming that your sliders' value property returns an int, you're converting an int to a string and then back again. This is not necessary. Instead of
byte r = byte.Parse(sliderRed.Value.ToString());

all you need to do is
byte r = (byte)sliderRed.Value;

This bypasses the string conversion. Converting something to a string and then converting it back from a string to something else is a code smell that should make you stop and think if there isn't a better way.
To turn the colour into its hex code is easy, because you already have the R, G and B values. All you need is:
hexCode.Text = string.Format("#{0:X2}{1:X2}{2:X2}", r, g, b);

Formatting a number with the format string "X2" forces it to render in hexadecimal, with 2 digits. So you just do that for all three next to each other, and stick the hash symbol at the front.
edit
If you're passing colour data around between parts of your code, you should always do that with a System.Drawing.Color object, and then whenever you need to display a hex string, generate that at the time. Don't pass around the hex string and convert it back to a Color when it's needed. Remember how I said converting things to strings and back again was a code smell?
If you find you're doing it a lot then it makes sense to add an extension method to Color so that you can call it easily. Here's a class that implements that method:
static class ColorExtensions
{
    public static string ToHexString(this System.Drawing.Color color)
    {
        return string.Format("#{0:X2}{1:X2}{2:X2}", color.R, color.G, color.B);
    }
}

This will give all Color values a ToHexString() method, which in your code above you could use as follows:
var color = Color.FromArgb(255, r, g, b);
EndColor.Background = new SolidColorBrush(color);
hexcode.Text = color.ToHexString();

A: hexcode.Text = ((SolidColorBrush)(EndColor.Background)).Color.ToString(); should do it.
Note that the Color.ToString() used here is the System.Windows.Media.Color.ToString() implementation (because SolidColorBrush is part of the System.Windows.Media classes.
System.Drawing.Color.ToString() will give different results - see
see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/50cb8sdx(v=vs.110).aspx [Drawing] vs https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms606572(v=vs.110).aspx [Media]

A: For this you can use ColorHelper library.
RGB to HEX:
using ColorHelper;
...
HEX hex = ColorHeConverter.RgbToHex(new RGB(10, 20, 30));

Links:

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*Github

*Nuget

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Vormetric's Insider Threat Report Reveals Mismatch between US Security Fears and Spending
Report Highlights Contrasts Between American and European Security Priorities, Reactions and Future Plans
SAN JOSE, Calif. – April 3, 2014 – Vormetric, the leader in enterprise data security for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced the results from its latest Insider Threat Report, conducted in conjunction with Ovum. Insider threats today have shifted to include both traditional insiders with access to critical data as part of their work, as well as privileged users and attacks that seek to compromise credentials to gain access to data such as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). Focused on enterprises, the report details concerns, the status of protection today, and organizations plans to offset insider threats as well as highlighting the responses of European organizations against their US counterparts.
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The report reveals key insights into how both European and US organizations prioritize cloud security, data accessibility, privacy violations and compliance requirements as well as strong differences in approach and attitude to the problem. Contrasts between European and US organizations include:
Three percent of US organizations felt safe versus nine percent in Europe and 47 percent felt vulnerable versus 25 percent Europe.
But US organizations were less prepared to spend money to address the problem, with 66 percent of European organizations planning to increase budgets to offset the threat versus 54 percent in the US – And with both sides admitting that compliance is the primary driver for these spending increases.
European organizations seem to have some reason to feel more secure – Nearly half of European respondents constantly monitor access to sensitive information, compared to only 29 percent of US enterprises.
39 percent of European businesses are concerned with abuse of access rights to their data, compared to 63 percent of US respondents six months ago.
"As large-scale breaches, APTs, and Snowden-related discussions dominate the news cycle, it is clear that insider threats are among the most prominent IT security issues facing organizations today, a feeling which is reflected within the findings of our report," said Andrew Kellett, lead analyst for the Ovum IT Security team. "From the data, it's clear that organizations are also struggling with new technologies like cloud, mobile and big data as they seek to protect themselves from insider threats."
"CSOs and enterprises are struggling today to cope with the massive increase in risks from insider threats that include both traditional insiders and privileged users as well as outside attacks that compromise their credentials in order to steal critical data," notes Robert Rodriguez, Chairman and Founder of Security Innovations Network (SINET)."Comparisons of European and US organizations within the report show Europeans feeling more secure, but that all need to rethink the mix of their investments in security controls, and focus more strongly on protecting data."
"Enterprises grow their use of cloud computing to take advantage of the business flexibility and financial advantages it brings," said Daniele Catteddu, Managing Director EMEA for Cloud Security Alliance. "The research shows that they feel that there are additional security risks from this growth, and details how cloud providers can enhance their offerings to better meet enterprise security needs for offsetting insider threats."
The report also confirms that both US and European organizations are finding detection of insider threats more difficult than previous years (at a rate of 47 percent for the US, 54 percent internationally), and that cloud and big data bring with them a host of additional insider related security concerns. Top-of-mind concerns for cloud include; lack of visibility into infrastructure (49 percent), potential for unauthorized access to data (46 percent) and lack of control over where data is held (44 percent). And for big data; the security of reports at 54 percent, possibility of privacy violations (49 percent) and lack of security and compliance controls (46 percent).
"Securing access to sensitive data, from traditional insiders, privileged users and outside-in attacks like APTs, is a clear concern to the future of organizations" said Alan Kessler, CEO for Vormetric. "The report clearly shows growing awareness of insider threats, but it also outlines that organizations have not yet adjusted their security posture to offset them. Rapid growth in the volume of sensitive information, combined with new technologies such as Cloud and Big Data enhance the difficulty and make traditional end point protections and network perimeter security less relevant every day. To defend themselves, organizations must take a data centric approach, implementing encryption and access controls to limit exposure, and monitoring data access to identify inappropriate user activity"
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Although the majority of the fish we caught were small, every now and then we would hook into a respectable bluegill that had dinner written all over it. I kept enough for a couple of meals and let the rest go. Taylor did the same.
By late afternoon, we were ready to work our way back to the main road. Even though the bite had not been spectacular, it had been a successful outing.
With winter winding down, ending the season with some good days on the ice is always a bonus.


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