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Apr 22, 2019

Proofpoint Enterprise Archive provides a secure and searchable central repository of a wide range of content types without the headaches of managing an in-house email archive. It is a cloud-based data archiving solution that will simplify your legal discovery, regulatory compliance and end-user data...

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Apr 22, 2019

A multi-cloud world is quickly becoming the new normal for many enterprises. But embarking on a cloud journey and managing cloud-based services across multiple providers can seem overwhelming. Today, IT users have a choice. Corporate IT departments know that if they don’t react, they may find themse...

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Apr 21, 2019

Throughout our blogs and guidance, the NCSC have said how important it is to change your password policies (if necessary) to make it easier for users to choose 'good' ones. This includes using password blacklists (that is, making sure your users can't choose any passwords commonly found ...

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Apr 20, 2019

Varonis spent a lot of time compiling a whole bunch of data breach stats that are very good ammo for budget requests. They also created an infographic with a quick executive summary. Did you know that Boeing actually had an inside data breach that lasted for 30 years and cost over $2 billion? Here i...

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Apr 19, 2019

Cybersecurity vendor Fortinet natively integrates with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to ensure secure, highly available workloads at scale.

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Apr 19, 2019

IBM Cloud Private is the Kubernetes platform for your enterprise. Among developers, IT architects, and chief information officers, there is a reluctance to move their critical applications to the cloud due to concerns about: 1. Security, 2. Efficiency, 3. Software/data across multiple clouds, 4. Non...

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Apr 18, 2019

Our journey to trust starts with protecting our own network. And, our network is big. Really Big.  In just one day, Cisco handles 1.2 Trillion Security events. A security event is anything that could have information security implications. Such as, authentications or spam emails or anti-virus a...

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Apr 18, 2019

The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) outlines six principles that organisations must follow when collecting, processing and storing individuals’ personal data. Data controllers are responsible for complying with those principles, and they must have documented proof of how the organisa...

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Apr 18, 2019

Software compliance isn’t just a concern of security, development, and legal executives. Your developers and development managers should care about it too. Here’s why. How do you evaluate the quality of an application? A simple quality checklist would include these software performance c...

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Apr 17, 2019

Consumer products that connect into an organization’s enterprise network could be used by an attacker as an initial foothold to access critical company assets. Mandiant’s robust IOT methodology tests all inputs into those consumer devices to see where security vulnerabilities may exist. ...

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Apr 17, 2019

The Synopsys Software Integrity Group is pleased to announce the public launch of CyRC (Cybersecurity Research Center). Our mission is simple—to advance the state of software security through research, innovation, and evangelism. More specifically, we strive to provide resources and informatio...

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Apr 16, 2019

It’s not too late to comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). The Regulation might have come into effect last year, but it’s requirements need to be regularly reviewed. As such, it doesn’t matter what your compliance posture was six months or a year ago. All that ...

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Apr 16, 2019

Imagine one of your employees clicked on an email link that let attackers into your network. Imagine that you couldn’t produce energy, have lost control of your systems, and were sitting at the mercy of a ransom-seeking hacker or foreign nation-state intent on exercising political leverage. Wh...

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Apr 16, 2019

Descubra como o Microsoft 365 Business pode tornar sua tecnologia mais gerenciável ao mesmo tempo em que melhora a produtividade dos funcionários. Você descobrirá formas de: Ajudar a reduzir os riscos com uma segurança constante Aumentar a produtividade juntos Trabalhar de qualquer lugar

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Apr 15, 2019

IBM Resiliency Orchestration with Cyber Incident Recovery can help organizations safeguard their business-critical applications and data and mitigate the impact of cyber incidents.

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Apr 15, 2019

Modern malicious software — or malware for short — has reached unprecedented levels of sophistication, and as the attack landscape continues to evolve, new threats will undoubtedly emerge. Malware affecting websites poses a special danger to businesses. Even some of the world’s lar...

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Apr 15, 2019

In the past couple of years, we’ve been tracking a long-lasting campaign responsible for injecting malicious scripts into WordPress sites. This campaign leverages old vulnerabilities (patched a long time ago) found in a variety of outdated themes and plugins. However, it also adds new vulnerab...

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Apr 15, 2019

Are your company executives vulnerable to an attack? A whaling attack is very similar to a phishing attack, just with bigger targets such as the c-suite. In this article, learn how to stay ahead of the threat and prevent a data breach. What is a Whaling Attack? A whaling attack is a spear phishing a...

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Apr 15, 2019

The pace of change within communications networks is happening at speeds not seen since the shift from circuit-switched networks to IP began a couple of decades ago. Today, we are in the midst of the next major transformation to hit communications networks: the evolution to a new, 5G- and IPv6-enabl...

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Apr 15, 2019

Fraudsters use bots to validate stolen login credentials by the thousands, often stealthily — on websites like yours. Bots are responsible for between 30% and 70% of the total traffic to websites today, yet most companies have inadequate visibility into attacks. How can you tell if a login attempt i...

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Apr 15, 2019

Contrary to current perception, you are not safe behind the perimeter — because the perimeter itself no longer exists. Traditional hub-and-spoke networking architectures, and the castle-and-moat security they utilize, aren’t amenable for today’s burgeoning cloud-and-mobile world. This is a problem t...

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Apr 15, 2019

Organizations across all industries are not immune to threats, especially those posed by weak or compromised user credentials. As employees use more apps and devices and create different identities across corporate and social accounts, it’s easier than ever for hackers to breach corporate systems. W...

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Apr 13, 2019

In March, the Federal Trade Commission announced proposed updates to two key privacy and security regulations, the Safeguards Rule and Privacy Rule. Both rules implement regulations under the federal Gramm Leach Bliley Act, and the FTC seeks comments for both. The FTC’s proposed update to the ...

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Apr 13, 2019

Mastercard, in collaboration with Microsoft, Workday and the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, launched the Cybersecurity Talent Initiative – a public-private partnership to recruit the nation’s best minds to defend against global cyberattacks. The Cybersecurity Tale...

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Apr 12, 2019

Before we explore the possibility if mobile phones can get virus, let’s learn more about the viruses itself. We all are very well familiar with computer viruses. They are malicious programs that infect and corrupt the files present in the computer, disrupting its performance and wreaking havoc...

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Apr 12, 2019

Cisco Umbrella is a cloud security platform that provides you with a first line of defense against threats on the internet, wherever your users go. Learn how to get an Umbrella account here on Cisco Tech Talks. For additional support information.

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Apr 12, 2019

Cisco Umbrella is a cloud security platform that provides the first line of defense against threats on the internet. Learn more about how it can protect your wireless network from malicious malware or ransomware here. For additional support information.

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Apr 12, 2019

Mirai is a self-propagating botnet virus that infects internet-connected devices by turning them into a network of remotely controlled bots or zombies. This network of bots, known as a botnet, is mostly used to launch DDoS attacks. The Mirai botnet code infects internet devices that are poorly prote...

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Apr 12, 2019

Hackers have more room to work with the progressive move towards mobile payments and the steady decline of brick-and-mortar stores in favor of ecommerce sites. This movement opens up opportunities to steal your information through tactics like formjacking and DDoS attacks that can be devastating for...

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Apr 12, 2019

TÜV Rheinland released its Cybersecurity Trends 2019, a report that contains eight important developments in cybersecurity. TREND 1: Cybersecurity has become a topic for the management level Until recently, lack of cybersecurity was not seen as a business risk, but as an IT problem. Despite yea...

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Apr 12, 2019

Die Gesetze und Bestimmungen zur Speicherung und Weitergabe von Daten ändern sich ständig, da sich Regierungen auf dem neusten Stand hinsichtlich digitaler Innovationen halten. Darüber hinaus sind die Vorschriften, die Ihr Unternehmen einhalten muss, von Land zu Land unterschiedlich. Die Daten-Compl...

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Apr 11, 2019

Cyber security is a complex topic, so we wouldn’t be surprised if you had questions about what your organisation should be doing. The threat of data breaches grows each year, organisations process more information than ever and the regulatory landscape is becoming a minefield to navigate. Fort...

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Apr 11, 2019

In my years working with technology and security data in the information security industry, I’ve heard numerous people confuse the word “compliance” with “security”.  We’ve all heard the stories in the news about an organization or company that was supposedly...

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Apr 11, 2019

Data volumes growing at an incredible rate, company data being lost in increasing amounts. IT decision-makers in the public and private sectors in 18 countries have given their opinion on whether their data security strategy is fit for purpose. DELL EMC recently revealed the results of its third Glo...

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Apr 11, 2019

As organizations continue to move toward digital transformation, the challenges they face are evolving. True transformation requires exploring new ways of doing business while reducing cost, increasing efficiency and realizing a greater return on investment. Cautiously navigating these new frontiers...

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Apr 11, 2019

Legislation signed by West Virginia Governor creates a new cybersecurity office within the Office of Technology to assess the vulnerabilities of state agencies and unify security policies. The new office has the authority to set standards for cybersecurity and is charged with managing the cybersecur...

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Apr 11, 2019

A vast majority of organizations are still unprepared to properly respond to cybersecurity incidents, with 77 percent of survey respondents indicating they do not have a cybersecurity incident response plan applied consistently across the enterprise. The 2019 Cyber Resilient Organization study from ...

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Apr 11, 2019

DDoS attacks have always been a major threat to network infrastructure and web applications. Attackers are always creating new ways to exploit legitimate services for malicious purposes, forcing us to constantly research DDoS attacks in our CDN to build advanced mitigations. We recently investigated...

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Apr 11, 2019

Azure Active Directory is a critical component of digital transformation and creating a truly modern workplace. Azure AD gives organizations a simple, elegant way to provide effortless user experiences, unlock IT efficiencies, and enhance security. Download “Crash course in Azure Active Directory” a...

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Apr 11, 2019

Fostering a culture where your employees can feel creative and effective is crucial to meeting your goals—but it often requires the right tools to do it. In this whitepaper, you'll learn how Microsoft 365 can: How to promote employee community and engagement Why you need to ensure employees can be p...

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Apr 11, 2019

Remote access is important and growing, but how secure is it? IDC Research surveyed more than 300 IT professionals to gain insight into the specific threats and challenges faced by providing access to employees and third parties. Read this report to learn about: How secure remote access really is Th...

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Apr 11, 2019

Companies of all types are pursuing digital transformation. The goal is to improve customer value, operate with greater efficiency and agility, and increase innovation. But as companies leverage new cloud and DevOps workflows to build their digital business, security has not kept pace. As infrastruc...

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Apr 10, 2019

Linux has earned a reputation of being the most secure operating system, but despite this, it still has its own security flaws. Deploying a secure operating system is an important starting point for every business, but even the most secure networks can be invaded. Similarly to the myth of the invuln...

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Apr 10, 2019

It has almost been a year now that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has come into effect. A landmark legislation in the history of data protection, GDPR has changed the way enterprises approach cybersecurity. With its many definitions and focus on data protection and security, enterpris...

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Apr 10, 2019

Not that long ago, before data breaches dominated daily headlines, we felt secure with our social media apps. Conveniently, every website seemed to allow logging in with Facebook or Twitter instead of creating a whole new password, and families of apps quickly became their own industry. Third-party ...

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Apr 10, 2019

The WordPress plugin repository team may “close” plugins and restrict downloads when they become aware of a security issue that the developer cannot fix quickly. However, bad actors are actively monitoring the WordPress plugin repository, paying close attention to these closed plugins. T...

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Apr 10, 2019

Reduce time of response and accelerate learning skills of your security team with IBM Resilient Incident Response Platform® (IRP) - put the right information in front of the right person at the right time through effective dynamic playbooks.

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Apr 10, 2019

IBM Resilient Incident Response Platform® (IRP) helps you decide whether a cyber alert is a true security incident or a false positive - Find out how you can reduce the time of response.

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Apr 10, 2019

In 2018, we witnessed some of the biggest data breaches ever – affecting businesses and consumers alike. From social media, hospitality, healthcare and even mail delivery, 2018 proved that there is no escaping cybersecurity flaws, regardless of the type of business or its popularity. For examp...

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Apr 10, 2019

Two out of three hotel websites inadvertently leak guests' booking details and personal data to third-party sites, including advertisers and analytics companies, according to research by Symantec Corp. The study looked at more than 1,500 hotel websites in 54 countries that ranged from two-star t...

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Apr 10, 2019

It can be expected that costs associated with cybercrime will rise in the near to medium term and have a material impact on the global economy – while putting individual citizens’ and corporations’ important data at risk by cyber criminals. The White House estimates that in 2016, m...

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Apr 10, 2019

It can be difficult to keep track of all credentials we need to remember daily. By integrating Daon's biometric authentication with Oracle Identity Cloud Service, we can make this process faster, easier, and more secure.

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Apr 10, 2019

Migrating computing resources to cloud environments opens up new attack surfaces previously unknown in the world of premise-based data centers. As a result, cloud-native data breaches frequently have different characteristics and follow a different progression than physical data breaches. Here is a ...

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Apr 09, 2019

The longer a breach goes undetected, the more embarrassing it is for the organisation in question. But what’s a good target for identifying an incident? According to Ponemon Institute’s 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study, it’s 100 days. The average cost of an incident discovered with...

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Apr 09, 2019

The prevailing trend in Industrial Automation and Control System (IACS) networking is the convergence of technology, specifically IACS operational technology (OT) with information technology (IT). Converged Plantwide Ethernet (CPwE) helps to enable IACS network and security technology and OT-IT pers...

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Apr 09, 2019

What is the most common form of communication in an organisation? Yes, you are right, it is email. It has truly revolutionized the way we contact and keep in touch with the people, be it in the vicinity or abroad. Currently, there are over 2 billion active email users around the world because it&rsq...

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Apr 09, 2019

For several months, QH Labs has been observing an upswing in ransomware activity. We found a new ransomware which is written in Go lang. Malware authors are finding it easy to write ransomware in Go lang rather than traditional programming languages. Infection of Jcry ransomware starts with a compro...

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Apr 09, 2019

If you’re making the case for cyber resilience at your small to medium-sized organization, there is a whole slew of new data out there to help make your argument. Our ongoing blog series Bridging the Cyber Divide is all about helping you—the IT/security professional at a small-to-medium ...

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Apr 09, 2019

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Apr 09, 2019

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Apr 09, 2019

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Apr 08, 2019

This spring, many of us will roll up our sleeves and get down to business decluttering our homes. Garage sales will be held, basement storage rooms will be re-organized, and donations will be made.  Shouldn’t the same thing happen in our digital lives? After all, the average American will...

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Apr 08, 2019

Have you ever stopped to think about how many resources a search engine has or if your website could handle the same amount of search traffic that Google does? Search engines play an important role on the internet and with how websites perform. One may say that they are the actual doorway to the onl...

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Apr 08, 2019

See what benefits #Whirlpool gets from running #SAP in a managed cloud environment on a global scale. Why run managed SAPApplications on the cloud? + Operational efficiency and security benefits: Improved security and compliance reporting for workloads; faster delivery of services and applications t...

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Apr 08, 2019

Tread carefully when it comes to Android security products – and never take an app provider’s claims at face value. In light of recent research showing that the majority of antivirus apps are pretty much useless, these messages are more relevant than ever. Here’s why many antivirus...

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Apr 08, 2019

You may be feeling stress at this very moment, but do you really understand what it is and where it comes from, especially as an IT Security professional? What is Stress Really? What do you consider stressful?  How do you spot stressful situations? According to WebMD, stress is: “the body...

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Apr 08, 2019

Probrand provides IT products, managed services and solutions to more than 3,500 customers, predominantly SMEs in the West Midlands and public sector organisations throughout the UK. Kaspersky Lab’s relationship with Probrand has developed over time, with its Endpoint Security for Business cyb...

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Apr 08, 2019

Ecommerce company AeroGrow International is the latest high-profile breach after its buy page was infected with credit card scraping malware for more than four months, AeroGrow announced in a letter to its customers and to the California Office of the Attorney General. The malicious code was probabl...

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Apr 08, 2019

Although organizations are devoting more resources to cyber security in order to tackle the growing threat of data breaches, 87% say they don’t have the budget to meet their needs, a new report has found. According to the EY Global Information Security Survey 2018–19, organizations are f...

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Apr 08, 2019

Nutzen Sie Produktivitätslösungen, die nur die Cloud bereitstellen kann. Office 365 bietet moderne, mobil einsetzbare Tools für Produktivität und Kommunikation mit Sicherheit der Enterprise-Klasse. Erfahren Sie, wie Sie: eine effektivere Zusammenarbeit und Kreativität fördern die IT-Infrastruktur un...

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Apr 08, 2019

The way you manage your data and device security is a top priority in an evolving cyberthreat landscape. Protecting your organization and improving security management starts with three key requirements: Visibility that helps you understand the security state and risks across resources Built-in sec...

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Apr 08, 2019

Security vulnerabilities in your company can be exploited in a number of ways, like cyberattacks or intentional breaches from within. And in an increasingly mobile world, with workers spread out geographically, working across multiple devices, the attack surface is larger than ever. Get your free s...

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Apr 08, 2019

Få råd om hur du kan förbättra organisationens säkerhet genom att hitta ställen där säkerheten inte kommit i främsta rummet, mildra riskerna och snabbt reagera på riktade attacker. Ladda ner e-boken "Anatomy of a Breach: How Hackers Break In—and How You Can Fight Back" och läs om: de fyra stegen i e...

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Apr 08, 2019

Se hur Microsoft 365 Business kan göra tekniken mer hanterbar och samtidigt öka produktiviteten. Upptäck bland annat olika sätt att: Bidra till att minska säkerhetsriskerna, med hjälp av ständigt aktiv säkerhet Uppnå mer tillsammans Arbeta var som helst

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Apr 07, 2019

Since its inception in 2009, Incapsula has been a proud part of Imperva, the analyst-recognized cybersecurity leader. However, cybersecurity needs are evolving, and so are we. On April 7th, we will officially retire Incapsula.com. All of the great Incapsula web site content that wasn’t already...

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Apr 05, 2019

The purpose of this document is to help technically-oriented professionals understand the security-related value BeyondTrust can bring to your organization. BeyondTrust can help your support organization stay secure and compliant, while improving the efficiency and success of your organization with ...

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Apr 05, 2019

A cybersecurity researcher who last month warned of a creative phishing campaign has now shared details of a new but similar attack campaign that has specifically been designed to target mobile users. Just like the previous campaign, the new phishing attack is also based on the idea that a malicious...

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Apr 05, 2019

Applications have won mobile, that’s no longer news. As most organizations leverage mobile apps to enhance their users’ online experience, the whole mobile ecosystem is evolving accordingly. Cybercriminals and greedy individuals see in applications a surface to make money out of. Governm...

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Apr 05, 2019

Winning a bet is one of life’s little pleasures. People make bets all the time. Many people even like to place wagers on the outcome of those bets. The trouble is gambling can become an addiction. What many organizations don’t realize is just how often CISOs and CIOs are now routinely ga...

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Apr 05, 2019

More than 50 universities in the UK have had their lack of cyber defences exposed, with security testers breaching their systems in under two hours. The tests were conducted by Jisc, the agency that provides Internet services to the UK’s universities and research centres. The organization&rsqu...

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Apr 05, 2019

Any time a user downloads a vulnerable or malicious mobile app, they could put your organization’s data at risk. Ironically, some malicious apps masquerade as ways to improve security, which can ensnare your most well-intentioned users. Research by AV-Comparatives, and independent organization...

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Apr 05, 2019

Involta is an award-winning national IT service provider and consulting firm. Involta helps organizations plan, manage and execute hybrid IT strategies using a broad range of services including colocation, cloud computing, managed IT, cybersecurity, fiber and network connectivity. Involta has indus...

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Apr 04, 2019

Threat actors regularly come up with new techniques for malware downloaders to hide and execute their code with the expectation that they can fool antivirus solutions for some time. Paliz is an archive that carries malicious code in an unusual location. ZIP Archive Contents. This malware arrives via...

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Apr 04, 2019

Know their plans. Know their attacks. Know how to stop them. A cyberattack is personal. At its core, they strip organizations, their employees, partners and customers of intellectual property, identities, privacy, reputation and monetary assets. Follow the attack trends to understand how and where c...

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Apr 04, 2019

While cybercriminals, hacktivists, and ransomware often make a big splash in the news headlines, the reality is that the biggest security threat is often right in front of you. Insiders—people already in your organization—pose a pervasive security risk, whether their behavior is maliciou...

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Apr 04, 2019

Barely a day goes by anymore without another report of sensitive data being left accessible to anyone on Elasticsearch servers or MongoDB databases that have not been properly configured. Today is no different. As ZDNet reports, researchers have discovered several exposed servers that belong to Chin...

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Apr 04, 2019

You have just read our blog on the 10 Personal Cyber Security Tips for National Cyber Security Awareness Month. We decided to turn that blog into an infographic for your viewing pleasure! More than half of U.S. consumers are now experiencing the effects of major data breaches. Becoming "Cyber A...

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Apr 04, 2019

The healthcare sector is uniquely vulnerable to phishing attacks, due to high employee turnover and influx of new employees who may lack previous cybersecurity training, according to a new report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. William Gordon, MD of Harvard Medical Scho...

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Apr 04, 2019

In February 2019, the Cyber Policy Institute (CPI) and APNIC agreed to work together on complementary activities, particularly in the field of cyber capacity building in the Asia Pacific region. To start a conversation with the APNIC community, we are sharing some of the conclusions about a recent a...

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Apr 04, 2019

The business case for any security system has an assumption that something fails. The cost of a failure includes fines and remediation efforts but also less obvious ones such as lost productivity and the loss of public trust in your brand. This white paper, Making the Business Case for Web Isolation...

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Apr 04, 2019

Security architectures have evolved over the years as the threat landscape has changed, and isolation could improve your security posture more than any other technology available today. Isolation has the potential to do more for your security than AI, threat intelligence or pen testing. Download thi...

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Apr 03, 2019

Most of us know to think twice before downloading a mobile app from a source other than Google Play™. But not everything from there is safe, either. Researchers have discovered hundreds of fraudulent Android apps that can compromise your security and privacy. Consult this infographic to know s...

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Apr 03, 2019

Although phishing attacks can occur against individuals, we will primarily focus on attacks against organizations in this post.  We will use the term organization to represent governments, educational and healthcare institutions, and commercial businesses, but we will draw distinctions in the &...

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Apr 03, 2019

As cyberattacks continue to increase in frequency and sophistication, understanding prevalent cyberthreats and how to mitigate their impact has become an imperative for every individual and organization in Asia Pacific.

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Apr 03, 2019

Although phishing has been around in various forms since the 1980s, our research shows it continues to evolve—and remains a major threat. These days, phishing tactics have gotten so sophisticated, it can be difficult to spot a scam—particularly in the case of hijacked email reply chains....

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Apr 03, 2019

Different Types of 11 CYBER ATTACKS. An important part et protecting your business from potential cyber-attack is to understand the threat landscape. This infographic outlines the common cyber-attacks likely to affect your business, with the aim of helping you detect and prevent these attacks stokin...

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Apr 03, 2019

The Apache Kafka Streams library is used by enterprises around the world to perform distributed stream processing on top of Apache Kafka. One aspect of this framework that is less talked about is its ability to store local state, derived from stream processing. In this blog post we describe how we t...

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Apr 03, 2019

One of the biggest challenges that humankind will face in the next two decades is cyber-attacks. With each passing day cyberattack grow globally in size, sophistication and cost. And no one seems immune from the potential risk of cyber-attacks. Ransomware is becoming a global phenomenon and cryptocu...

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Apr 03, 2019

Organizations in many industries use web applications to collect and handle information such as credit card numbers, emails, and customer behavior data. They rely on these web apps to run their businesses and gain a competitive edge. Clearly, many organizations are enjoying the automation and wealth...

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Apr 03, 2019

At Mimecast we are blessed to have more than 33,000 customers for our email security, archiving, web security and security awareness training services. And staying connected and engaged with these customers is key to our mutual success. But how best to do this? TechValidate While there is no one way...

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Apr 03, 2019

Understanding the Landscape. Day by day, it is becoming more challenging to keep endpoints secure. In the SANS “Endpoint Protection and Response” survey from 2018, 42% of respondents indicated at least one of their endpoints had been compromised, and another 20% didn’t know if any ...

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Apr 03, 2019

So you just got hacked and lost access to your email or social media account. What now? First, let’s start with what you shouldn’t do: panic. You’re not the first person to go through this, and you will not be the last. Big companies know this and have come up with ways for you to ...

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Apr 03, 2019

Toyota has disclosed a data breach that may have affected up to 3.1 million customers. It’s the second time the car manufacturer has been breached in the last five weeks. In a statement released on 29 March 2019, the organisation confirmed that several of its Asian subsidiaries were targeted b...

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Apr 03, 2019

Every year, Proofpoint observes a seasonal uptick in tax-related malware and phishing campaigns leading up to annual tax filing deadlines. In 2017, these campaigns focused on phishing and increasingly sophisticated social engineering, as well as banking Trojans and ransomware. In 2018, we observed s...

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Apr 03, 2019

Cyberattacks continue to plague organizations of all sizes. While IT security teams are getting better at preventing cyberattacks from happening, attacks remain a matter of “when” one will occur (if it hasn’t already) rather than “if” it will happen. A business disrupti...

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Apr 03, 2019

Remote access is important and growing, but how secure is it? IDC Research surveyed more than 300 IT professionals to gain insight into the specific threats and challenges faced by providing access to employees and third parties. Read this report to learn about: How secure remote access really is T...

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Apr 03, 2019

Companies of all types are pursuing digital transformation. The goal is to improve customer value, operate with greater efficiency and agility, and increase innovation. But as companies leverage new cloud and DevOps workflows to build their digital business, security has not kept pace. As infrastru...

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Apr 02, 2019

We recently noticed an interesting example of network infrastructure resources being used over a period of time by more than one large scale malware campaign (e.g redirected traffic, cryptomining). This was discovered when reviewing sources of the various malicious domains used in a recent WordPress...

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Apr 02, 2019

Operational Vulnerability Reports. An alarming yet common trend among organizations is to run a report that contains all the vulnerabilities under a particular system-owner and send them a very large report. Some organizations have matured beyond this point to provide reports that include everything...

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Apr 02, 2019

Concord, Massachusetts-based Emerson Hospital is notifying 6,300 patients that their data was potentially breached nearly one year ago, due to insider wrongdoing at one of its vendors. According to a statement released on March 8, the data breach occurred during a weeklong period from May 9 to May 1...

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Apr 02, 2019

It’s no secret that the world of software development has been thrust into the spotlight recently. Tech startups are popping up in “innovation districts” in cities around the world. And single-product software giants are growing floor by floor in some of the nation’s most exp...

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Apr 02, 2019

A phishing scam perpetrated by a man stealing sensitive personal information from high-profile individuals should provide a warning sign to organizations of all sizes: this could happen to you without the right safeguards in place. According to a report in Dark Reading, a Dacula, Ga. resident named ...

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Apr 02, 2019

En vous offrant une meilleure visibilité sur le statut des différents contrats et en vous permettant d’une part de collecter des informations, afin de supprimer la nécessité de ressaisir les données, et d’autre part d’envoyer des rappels, la signature électronique vous permet de vous concentrer sur...

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Apr 02, 2019

Take a look back at the most important and impactful news and research from 2018. The State of the Internet / Security: A Year in Review report helps you prepare for the year ahead by summarizing the trends, attacks, and security events that indicate how the threat landscape is evolving. The report ...

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Apr 02, 2019

Contrary to current perception, you are not safe behind the perimeter — because the perimeter itself no longer exists. Traditional hub-and-spoke networking architectures, and the castle-and-moat security they utilize, aren’t amenable for today’s burgeoning cloud-and-mobile world. This is a problem ...

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Apr 02, 2019

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Apr 02, 2019

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Apr 02, 2019

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Apr 02, 2019

Learn the most common methods used to execute account takeover attacks and what an organization can do to protect against them.

blog article

Apr 01, 2019

Cave drawing found in southern France showing early spear-fishing have been dated back 16,000 years, and whaling has been practiced as an organized industry as early as 875 AD. While spear-fishing started out as an effective way to provide sustenance for early man and whaling started out as a means ...

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Apr 01, 2019

This infographic from Inspired eLearning covers the most common types of phishing attacks. Whether its through email, phone call, text message, or USB baiting, learn about how these attacks can occur, common statistics, and prevention tips.

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Apr 01, 2019

Using Oracle Cloud Access Security Broker, blend third-party data, apply machine learning, and forecast the best course of action.

blog article

Apr 01, 2019

Data security is far from a side issue, of interest only to big players. On the contrary, it applies in equal measure to start-ups, small- and medium-sized enterprises, and global consortia. Even though the scale of issues each of these need to grapple with is completely different, security should b...

blog article

Mar 31, 2019

Because the threat landscape is constantly evolving and more volatile than ever, businesses need a solution that can keep up with the known threats that target their web-facing applications and services. New cyberthreats are hitting the market at an alarming rate. Emerging botnets like DrainerBot an...

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Mar 30, 2019

Memory attacks penetrate via endpoints and malware evades security defenses by exploiting vulnerabilities in applications and operating system processes. A majority of these attacks operate in the memory space of the exploited application and remain untouched by most security solutions once they gai...

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Mar 29, 2019

If there is one thing that a business needs to focus on more than anything else particularly in the modern era, it is cybersecurity. The fact of the matter is that your data is often your most precious resource, so figuring out a way that make cybersecurity your top priority is something that you sh...

blog article

Mar 29, 2019

Cybersecurity Metrics in Business Context. As such, we as security professionals need to ensure we are providing data to the business, so they understand what it is we do and how it is we go about protecting them. The question herein is: What metrics should we provide? As technical folks, it’s...

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Mar 29, 2019

CyberEdge Group’s sixth annual Cyberthreat Defense Report reveals how IT security professionals perceive the security posture of their organizations, the challenges they face in establishing e ective cyberthreat defenses, and the plans they have to overcome those challenges. Read on to learn a...

blog article

Mar 29, 2019

If your computer gets infected with ransomware, follow the steps below to recover your data: Step 1: Do not pay the ransom because there is no guarantee that the ransomware creators will give you access to your data. Step 2: Find any available backups you have, and consider keeping your data backups...

blog article

Mar 29, 2019

A recent report has found that just 15% of IT decision makers in small organisations “completely agree” that their employees have a good understanding of cyber security, and 20% believe their employees don’t care about cyber security at all. What’s more worrying is that despi...

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Mar 28, 2019

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has created a domino effect across the world as its biggest trade partners rushed to align their existing data protection legislations to its strict requirements or passed new laws based on its example, in hopes of ensuring business operations...

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Mar 28, 2019

More than ever before, the discussion of network security is intersecting with the interests of business, government, and popular media. The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is perhaps the best modern example of this. There are stakeholders on all sides who demand both a secure end-to-end con...

blog article

Mar 28, 2019

What is a Man in the Middle Attack? How Does it Work? A Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack happens when a hacker inserts themselves between a user and a website. This kind of attack comes in several forms. For example, a fake banking website may be used to capture financial login information. The fake ...

blog article

Mar 28, 2019

No organization wants its applications to contain vulnerabilities that enable the theft of its sensitive data. The potential for brand damage, legal liability, compliance sanctions, and loss of business could be crippling. But no organization can spend all its time and money making its applications ...

blog article

Mar 28, 2019

When it comes to cybersecurity, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are like a marriage. When two companies walk down the aisle together, one’s cybersecurity problems become the other’s baggage—whether they disclose it or not. The first half of 2018 saw $2.5 trillion in mergers in ...

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Mar 28, 2019

For most, “analytics” represents a broad term, and rightfully so. As the prevailing winds of digital transformation continue to push interconnection to the digital edge, a plethora of real-time analytics requirements (and capabilities) have irreversibly raised the ante for immediately av...

blog article

Mar 28, 2019

How does malware infect Android smartphones? The location and behavior of the user are two main influential factors that provide opportunities for hackers to infect Android devices. Hackers disguise android malware as legitimate mobile applications on websites and app stores. Unknowingly, users down...

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Mar 27, 2019

Taiwan-based technology giant ASUS is advising concerned customers to run a newly-created diagnostic tool on their Windows computers after hackers pushed out malware to what some security researchers have estimated to be as many as one million PCs using ASUS’s own Live Update software tool. As...

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Mar 27, 2019

Combine Cisco endpoint security, malware analysis, and DNS protection with Cisco Threat Response, and users go from exposed to empowered in seconds. To learn more, visit: http://cs.co/6052EwMEi.

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Mar 27, 2019

The fact that a cyber attack can have physical consequences is not exactly breaking news. The use of the computer worm Stuxnet to destroy nearly a thousand, or about a fifth, of the centrifuges in Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility is now a decade in the rearview. The warnings of a &ldq...

blog article

Mar 27, 2019

Data breaches seem to be a regular feature in the news nowadays, especially since GDPR regulation kicked in last year. This higher frequency of articles announcing newly-hacked-victim-organizations gives an idea of the growing scale of the security problem - a trend that we have been talking and war...

blog article

Mar 27, 2019

Any business in the B2B space is part of a supply chain, whether you feed into larger businesses or those larger businesses feed into you. If you find yourself as a smaller business feeding into larger ones, you are more susceptible to attacks than some in your organization may think. In a previous ...

blog article

Mar 27, 2019

Scam phone calls are anything but new. You may even think they’ve almost become extinct. Even if it’s great to watch them decrease year by year, we hate to admit they are still happening. One day you may get a call from a friendly and overly-polite support technician, who claims your com...

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Mar 27, 2019

In the healthcare industry, phishing is the initial point of compromise in most significant security incidents, according to a recent report from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). And yet, 18% of healthcare organizations fail to conduct phishing tests, a finding HIMS...

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Mar 27, 2019

The last 12 months saw large corporations, from hotels to internet giants, hit the headlines after suffering crippling data breaches—and it seems like this pattern is set to continue in the coming years. The sheer magnitude and frequency of these attacks is evidence that no matter the size or ...

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Mar 27, 2019

The digitally progressing world is posing as a roadmap to a number of cyberattacks. Anyone and everyone whose data has an online presence are susceptible to these cyber threats. These threats are just inexorable. Bringing awareness to them will help with understanding the severity of the situation. ...

blog article

Mar 27, 2019

As an engineering leader for more than 20 years, I’ve experienced the journey from waterfall to agile to DevOps and now DevSecOps with my teams. While much has been written about the DevSecOps movement from the perspective of developer and security professionals, I aim to share insight from a ...

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Mar 27, 2019

An app called Family Locator, which allows family members to keep track of one another recently experienced an exposed database issue of the worst kind. Specifically: the MongoDB database was left exposed with no password, like so many other recent infosec tales of woe. The end result is the locatio...

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Mar 26, 2019

In their Website Hack Trend Report, web security company Sucuri noted that WordPress infections rose to 90 percent in 2018. One aspect of Content Management System (CMS) infections that is sometimes overlooked is that attackers not only go after the CMSes themselves—WordPress, Drupal, etc.&mda...

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Mar 26, 2019

Stephen Dane, Managing Director, Global Security Sales Organization, APJC, sheds light on the cybersecurity business challenges, needs and opportunities in Asia Pacific by deep diving into Cisco's latest CISO Benchmark Study.

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Mar 26, 2019

Service availability is a key component of the user experience. Customers expect services to be constantly available and fast-responding, and any downtime can result in disappointed users, abandoned shopping carts, and lost customers. Consequently, DDoS attacks are increasing in complexity, size and...

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Mar 26, 2019

Security and network performance tools are unable to or weren’t built to handle and analyze traffic at higher bandwidths. Read Enterprise Management Associates new research report, “Next Generation Network Packet Brokers: Defining the Future of Network Visibility Fabrics” to learn how to reduce unne...

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Mar 26, 2019

Read “Security at the Speed of Your Network” to learn why organizations are using an architectural approach to improve security posture and reduce costs. Enable security tools to work more efficiently across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Deploy a diverse set of security solutions as a ce...

blog article

Mar 25, 2019

As more people are creating websites and becoming aware of website security, companies are popping up everywhere to help with the problem. And just like website security plugins, not all website security services are created equal. Here at Sucuri, we believe that you should do your website security ...

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Mar 25, 2019

Dimension Data and Cisco provide industry-leading cybersecurity technologies and services that protect clients against evolving threats.

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Mar 25, 2019

You may be interested to know that most every modern cybersecurity technique used today is based on methodologies developed and used thousands of years ago. So, in the spirit of those who don’t know their past are doomed to repeat it, let’s look at how modern cybersecurity has evolved fr...

blog article

Mar 22, 2019

The incidents of cyber-attacks on smartphones, especially those working on the popular Android operating system, have been on a constant rise. However, a major reason people still continue to go in for android smartphones, is the fact that these are mostly cheap to buy. However, the year 2018 ended ...

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Mar 22, 2019

Our recent blog post detailing how cybercriminals compromise cloud accounts provides crucial insight into attacks on Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite specifically.  40% of all tenants have at least one compromised account in their environment as a result of these brute force and phishing...

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Mar 22, 2019

A new research paper from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras explains how popular Netflix interactive show Bandersnatch could fall victim to a side-channel attack. In 2016, Netflix began adding TLS (Transport Layer Security) to their video content to ensure strangers couldn’t eavesdrop ...

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Mar 22, 2019

Yesterday Facebook disclosed during a routine security review they discovered “some” user passwords were being stored unencrypted, but the passwords were not visible to anyone outside of Facebook. Facebook’s definition of “some” doesn’t really illustrate the full ...

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Mar 22, 2019

Perhaps we should all change our Facebook passwords to play it safe, following news that Facebook kept, from as early as 2012, “hundreds of millions” of user account passwords in plain text, making them available to some 20,000 employees, writes KrebsOnSecurity following a tip from a sou...

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Mar 22, 2019

Orange County in North Carolina suffered its third ransomware infection in six years, the local government announced on its website on Monday. The attack, probably stemming from a phishing email, a very common practice in such situations, crippled the county’s IT infrastructure and left a numb...

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Mar 22, 2019

The financial sector has long been a target of cyber thieves. But despite their robust security postures, they continue to be the focus of some of the most innovative attack campaigns. Cybercriminals are laser focused on crafting attacks that will yield the most amount of revenue for the least amoun...

blog article

Mar 22, 2019

Today, almost everyone is on the internet, yet many people still have not learned lessons about securing online passwords. Password security is a legitimate issue, and if you overlook it, it could put you at great risks. While advanced techniques such as fingerprints and facial recognition have beco...

blog article

Mar 21, 2019

A data breach remains a common headline in the news cycle. A different company, website or social network reports a security issue almost daily. If it feels like using the internet has become a risky endeavor, the feeling is accurate. But what exactly classifies an event as a data breach? The world ...

blog article

Mar 21, 2019

Maintaining a safe digital framework can be a tricky task for large organizations’ IT teams. To help them, some solutions such as security information and event management (SIEM) softwares are specifically designed to group and analyze large amounts of data and make them comprehensible at a hu...

blog article

Mar 21, 2019

Is it worth making more than a minimal effort to avoid data breaches? The answer ought to be obvious by now. As Tim Mackey, technical evangelist at Synopsys, noted at RSA Conference in San Francisco in early March, data breaches are “serious business.” The price that breached companies p...

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Mar 21, 2019

Atos Digital Vision series aims to provide a thoughtful and informed view of the opportunities brought about by digital services. It demonstrates how these opportunities are being harnessed by governments, markets and businesses to help deliver innovative solutions that benefit their customers and c...

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Mar 21, 2019

Evotech Solution is a technology integrator in Peru and Chile that, through Oracle Converged Infrastructure offerings, has been able to improve performance and security while reducing costs for clients.

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Mar 21, 2019

Enterprises have a password problem, and it’s one that is making the work of hackers a lot easier. From credential stuffing to brute force and password spraying attacks, modern hackers don’t have to do much hacking in order to compromise internal corporate networks. Instead, they log in ...

blog article

Mar 21, 2019

A lot of businesses are already addressing the need to have an understanding of their own cyber security risks and looking at measures to ensure that their business is suitably protected.  The next step on the road to managing your cyber security is to think about your supply chain and whether ...

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Mar 21, 2019

How do you know if your cybersecurity program is truly working? That’s the million-dollar (or for most businesses, the tens-of-thousands of dollar) question. And, if you’re lucky enough to be able to dedicate resources to your organization’s cybersecurity program, this is an import...

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Mar 21, 2019

Microsoft’s security team is uniquely positioned to analyze trends in cyber security threats. Their frequent Security Intelligence Reports (SIR) are an excellent indicator of these trends. Redmond's numbers are based on their internal scan of O365 email addresses. Get the latest SIR here. ...

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Mar 21, 2019

Cybersecurity Ventures estimated 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs by 2021, and the United States is moving on pace to hit half-a-million or more unfilled cybersecurity positions by 2021. [1] We are just a couple of months into 2019, and looking at the above statistics, we can expect to have m...

blog article

Mar 20, 2019

Since the dawn of IT, there’s been a very consistent theme among admins: end users are the weakest link in your network, organization, security strategy, fill-in-the-blank. We’ve all heard the stories, and even experienced them first-hand. An employee falls for a phishing scam and the wh...

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Mar 20, 2019

Hybrid environments give new challenges to information compliance and security groups. The dynamic nature of knowledge, users, and applications need extra measures to confirm that the organization’s critical information is tracked, understood, and guarded continually. The risks aren't theo...

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Mar 20, 2019

It wasn’t a very long time ago when cloud computing was a niche field that only the most advanced organizations were dabbling with. Now the cloud is very much the mainstream, and it is rare to find a business that uses IT that doesn’t rely on it for a part of its infrastructure. But if y...

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Mar 20, 2019

A zero-day vulnerability is the name given to a newly-identified software security flaw. If left unfixed, it offers hackers the opportunity to create a ​package designed to specifically target that bug in order to compromise user systems. This type of ​package is known as a zero-day exploit.

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Mar 20, 2019

Cybercrime is on the rise! Every year, more and more incidents are registered and with attacks becoming more complex and devastating, it is becoming even harder for organizations to keep up with cybercriminals. The damages caused by a cyber attack goes far beyond revenue loss. We are amidst a digita...

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Mar 20, 2019

This document provides an overview of IPv6 security that is specifically aimed at IPv4 engineers and operators. Rather than describing IPv6 in an isolated manner, it aims to re-use as much of the existing IPv4 knowledge and experience as possible. It highlights the security issues that affect both p...

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Mar 20, 2019

We’ve seen Magecart conduct numerous high-profile digital credit card-skimming attacks against major international companies like British Airways, Ticketmaster, and Newegg. These Magecart groups have won unprecedented attention for themselves. Security professionals have Magecart firmly on the...

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Mar 20, 2019

The recent Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2019 uncovers some interesting facts about cloud database security: 73% of respondents feel the public cloud is more secure than what they can deliver in their own data center and are moving to the cloud. 71% of organizations indicated that a majority o...

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Mar 20, 2019

Data privacy rights have advanced since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules took effect nearly a year ago in May 2018. GDPR outlines privacy protection and control for EU citizens and requires companies to notify users about their data collection practices and ...

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Mar 20, 2019

The motivation to introduce DevOps in most organizations is to increase the speed by which feature enhancements and new developments are brought to users in a way that aligns with business goals. Speed, in and of itself, is not a bad motivation; especially when aligned with business goals that inclu...

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Mar 20, 2019

Microsoft's announcement that it has launched its first cloud data centers in Africa—one in Cape Town, another in Johannesburg—is a cause for celebration among South Africa's business sector. As we hurtle into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, access to cloud infrastructure will ...

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Mar 20, 2019

Fileless Malware: What It Stands For? Fileless malware, or non-malware, is a zero-footprint attack that does not depend on any malicious software to spread and infect the user’s machine. It, instead, finds existing vulnerabilities in the machine and takes advantage of it. Fileless malware illu...

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Mar 20, 2019

What is online brand security? As we outlined in our Practical Guide to Reducing Digital Risk, the integrity of brand and identity is essential in protecting a business. Adversaries are routinely impersonating businesses and critical online services to target customers and significant business trans...

blog article

Mar 20, 2019

With all the data breaches and frauds taking place every day, it’s no secret that new business owners and marketers need to be more aware of the cyber threats that can drastically affect their business as well as personal data. Many business owners think that their data and assets are protecte...

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Mar 20, 2019

Cybersecurity and diversity are high-value topics that are most often discussed in isolation. Both topics resonate with individuals and organizations alike. However, the intersections between cybersecurity and diversity are often overlooked. As nations and organizations seek to protect their critica...

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Mar 19, 2019

At Forcepoint we continually seek to improve the protection our products provide. To this end, we often investigate unusual or potentially novel attack techniques. One such recent topic of research has been attacks against localhost and the internal network, launched from the public Internet. Though...

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Mar 19, 2019

It has been reported today that Norsk Hydro either switched to manual mode or temporarily stopped aluminum production at several plants following a cyberattack. The Norwegian National Security Authority and local media in Norway describe the incident as a ransomware attack by a malware called Locker...

blog article

Mar 19, 2019

Microsoft has numerous Office 365 security features built in to help you monitor activity, protect data, identify threats, and manage identity, access, and privileges. But getting the most out of those tools can be difficult, particularly for mid-sized organizations. Integrating them with data from ...

blog article

Mar 19, 2019

Ever since we launched our customizable cyber security incident response template, I’ve been amazed by its volume of downloads. I quickly realized that the increasing cyber threats from criminal hackers, malware and ransomware is starting to be taken seriously by organizations large and small,...

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Mar 19, 2019

A new study conducted by AV-Comparatives, a well-respected independent testing agency, has closely examined whether 250 security products for Android smartphones are capable of protecting users at all. The test evaluated whether Android anti-virus products available in the official Google Play store...

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Mar 19, 2019

If you have security cameras outside your home, you might be wondering why spiders love to spin cobwebs across camera lenses. The truth is, spiders don’t actually love your cameras—they love the bugs attracted to the infrared light emitting from your camera. This can be a real issue for ...

blog article

Mar 19, 2019

Business email compromise (BEC) is a term that encompasses a variety of techniques and tactics that cybercriminals leverage to obtain money or data via identity deception. Despite the evolution and repurposing of this suite of associated tactics, one constant has remained throughout—the corres...

blog article

Mar 18, 2019

Faced with increasingly restrictive data protection regulations and the very real threat of cyberattacks, businesses big and small have recently made data security a top priority. But, as they invest in complex strategies to protect data within their company networks, they often overlook one of the ...

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Mar 18, 2019

Depending on the role you are involved in within cybersecurity, your responsibilities will vary. For instance if you are a cryptographer, you are expected to write code that a hacker cannot crack, and if you are a vulnerability assessor you have to spot system vulnerabilities and fix them. But the e...

blog article

Mar 18, 2019

History credits Revolutionary War hero George Washington with being among the first to vocalize this concept, later famously echoed by heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey and football god Vince Lombardi. And it’s easy to see what they mean. The idea is that being proactive—going on the...

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Mar 18, 2019

The WP-Fastest-Cache plugin authors released a new update, version 0.8.9.1, fixing a vulnerability (CVE-2019-6726) present during its install alongside the WP-PostRatings plugin. According to seclists.org: A successful attack allows an unauthenticated attacker to specify a path to a directory from w...

blog article

Mar 18, 2019

Cybersecurity has come a long way since its inception in the 1990s.1 In the beginning, hackers were generally considered a nuisance, and their hacks – which were pretty limited in terms of their scope – were designed more to cause trouble than harm. When the internet began to take centre...

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Mar 18, 2019

iDefense, a cybersecurity intelligence unit of Accenture Security, has recently reported that at least 27 different universities in the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia have been targeted by the attackers including the University of Hawaii, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and th...

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Mar 15, 2019

Organized for the 28th time in San Francisco, the RSA Conference 2019 tackled with the idea of “Better”. This year’s theme was about what defines better in the field of cybersecurity and what can organizations do to better their security outcomes. Is it about new tools for building...

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Mar 15, 2019

In late February, the notorious cryptojacking script engine called Coinhive abruptly announced the impending end to its service. The stated reason: it was no longer economically viable to run. Coinhive became infamous quickly following its debut as an innovative javascript-based cryptomining script ...

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Mar 15, 2019

The latest version of the Joomla! 3.x series was released on March 12, 2019. Version 3.9.4 addresses four security flaws and 28 bug fixes, which includes a high-priority access level vulnerability. Three of the four security flaws are cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, which have been ident...

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Mar 15, 2019

Some JavaScript features allow for pretty interesting obfuscation techniques. For example, did you know that virtually any English word can be used as a valid number? I recently decoded a credit card stealing script injected at the bottom of a js/varien/js.js file: There were several layers of obfus...

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Mar 15, 2019

A new report found that last year there had been a 400% increase in SSL-based phishing threats, criminals are increasingly using encryption as part of their toolkit to evade detection and launch malware. When data is encrypted, it cannot be accessed and exploited by unauthorised users. If you are se...

blog article

Mar 15, 2019

We are excited to announce the launch of a new feature that will enable our customers to deliver security awareness training that more effectively meets unique organizational goals. The self-service Customization Center in the Proofpoint Security Education Platform gives program administrators acces...

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Mar 14, 2019

Gain visibility and control over sensitive IoT data for compliance. Reduce attack surface for business-critical IoT applications. Reduce latency and improve IoT application performance. The result of a unique Global Strategic Alliance between Siemens and Atos with joint innovation and investment pro...

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Mar 14, 2019

A common interest and collaborative effort of system operators and suppliers. Most control room operators have a strong focus on safety: air traffic management during all phases of operation, emergency services answering calls and coordinating first responders, vessel traffic and railway operation. ...

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Mar 14, 2019

Over the past six months, more people in the general populace have begun using the term 5G in their regular conversations. It was a big focus at the recently-concluded MWC Barcelona event in February. And high-profile publications like TIME and BusinessWeek are writing articles to explain 5G to the ...

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Mar 14, 2019

Digital transformation is changing the way every enterprise operates. The trailblazers who were first on the journey are now looking at dividing the data workload across public and private cloud, but many are finding that protecting data across multiple platforms is a significant challenge.

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Mar 14, 2019

Learn more about the benefits of IBM Security Product Professional Services—a team of trusted experts who help organizations assess, build and deploy an integrated security ecosystem that reduces complexity and provides the intelligence needed to understand and adapt to advanced threats.

blog article

Mar 14, 2019

How does a Computer Virus Spread. A computer virus spreads through removable media, internet downloads, and e-mail attachments. In other words, a virus spreads while the user is viewing an infected advertisement, visiting an infected website, opening the attachment in the email, or clicking on an ex...

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Mar 14, 2019

Many systems claim to be secure, provide secure functionality, and may even be validated by an accredited security industry. However, what does it mean to be a good — or even usable — voice-based security system? What makes a secure voice platform exceptional? In this paper, we present f...

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Mar 14, 2019

One of the most common and pervasive threats for businesses today is Emotet, a banking Trojan turned downloader that has been on our list of top 10 detections for many months in a row. Emotet, which Malwarebytes detects as Trojan.Emotet, has been leveled at consumers and organizations across the glo...

blog article

Mar 14, 2019

Mobile antivirus apps have come under close scrutiny in recent years, thanks, in no small part, to bogus security apps like Virus Shield that don’t actually do anything. Dozens of other security apps have been identified as trojans or been found to provide ineffective protection. Of course, th...

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Mar 14, 2019

Cybersecurity has become one of the prevailing issues of our time - with so much of our personal data now being transmitted online, the risk of major loss is significant, and very real, which is why we all need to take precautions. Are you aware of the varying types of cybersecurity threats you now ...

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Mar 14, 2019

The need to improve security teams’ efficiency, integrate technologies, and speed up incident response has spurred the demand for orchestration and automation. Intelligence-driven orchestration goes a step further -- it takes things like environment, situational awareness, and circumstances in...

blog article

Mar 14, 2019

Serverless architectures are revolutionizing the way organizations procure and use enterprise technology. This cloud computing model can drive cost-efficiencies, increase agility and enable organizations to focus on the essential aspects of software development. While serverless architecture offers ...

blog article

Mar 14, 2019

The types of cyber-security attacks that businesses need to protect themselves from are continually growing and evolving. Keeping your company secure means having insight into the most common threats, and the categories of cyber attacks that might go unnoticed. From how to use the principle of least...

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Mar 14, 2019

Password security is a problem impacting everybody, with weak passwords putting your business at great risk. Watch the video to see two of the most common methods hackers use to crack passwords in real life: hash cracking and brute forcing.

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Mar 14, 2019

Organizations of all sizes have made considerable shifts to using cloud-based infrastructure for their day-to-day business operations. However, cloud security hasn't always kept up with cloud adoption, and that leaves security gaps that hackers are more than happy to take advantage of. One of th...

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Mar 14, 2019

Over the past few years, organizations have gradually adopted cloud technologies for a wide range of business purposes. Usually, the cloud service utilized first is file storage. Cloud storage enables all business, from small to large, to control costs while ensuring high availability of their data....

blog article

Mar 14, 2019

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word “forensics?” Odds are, if you’re like most Americans, the first thing you thought about was a crime & mystery show like NCIS, CSI, or Law & Order. However, forensics plays a role in cybersecurity, too. Many ne...

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Mar 14, 2019

Modern operational technology (OT) networks are constantly evolving due to developments such as Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industry 4.0, smart grid and more. To stay competitive, companies are adopting these beneficial technologies to optimize their operations and significantly cut operat...

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Mar 14, 2019

Continuous learning has many benefits and with the “ever-evolving” technology, learning is the only tool to keep yourself updated and ahead of the competition. In this article, let us see how powerful the approach of continuous training is, especially when it is applied to a cybersecurit...

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Mar 13, 2019

This document is provided for informational purposes only. It represents AWS’s current product offerings and practices as of the date of issue of this document, which are subject to change without notice. Customers are responsible for making their own independent assessment of the information ...

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Mar 13, 2019

The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting more than 750 operators with over 350 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers and internet companies, as well as organisations in adjacent industry...

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Mar 13, 2019

Crypto-mining refers to the mining of crypto currencies. The mining process consists of complicated calculations and serves to verify the transactions of crypto currencies. As a reward, the person carrying out the calculation receives coins in the respective crypto currency. The best known crypto cu...

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Mar 13, 2019

For a piece of malware to be able to do its intended malicious activity, it has to be able to sneak inside a machine’s system without being flagged by cybersecurity defenses. It camouflages and packages itself to look like a benign piece of code and, when it has cleared past security filters, ...

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Mar 13, 2019

Contrary to popular belief, every device is worth hacking when the process is automated. It doesn’t matter who or where you are, if you own a company big or small, or have technology in the home – every device can be monetized by an enterprising criminal. Brute force login attempts are l...

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Mar 13, 2019

Bug bounties are hot. They are everywhere. Of course, popularity doesn’t guarantee quality. Just because everybody is doing it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best way to maintain the security of your organization. But the word from most experts is that bug bounties are a good th...

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Mar 13, 2019

On March 13, 2019, RIPS Technologies, a company specializing in static code analysis software, released details of a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability they found in all versions of WordPress up to 5.1.1. The vulnerability had been disclosed on various websites under different categories. Some...

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Mar 13, 2019

DX offers new business advantages, and organizations are rapidly adopting digital technologies to accelerate their business, deliver better customer experiences, lower costs, and improve efficiencies. Organizations are migrating workloads and applications to the cloud, resulting in an explosion of I...

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Mar 13, 2019

SC Media, a leading cybersecurity media outlet, recently recognized Proofpoint as one of the most important companies in the last 30 years. The accolade is part of SC Media’s 30th Anniversary Awards, which include several special categories honoring those who have shaped the cybersecurity indu...

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Mar 13, 2019

What is Network Firewall? A Network Firewall is a security device that reduces or denies suspicious access to enterprise intranet network or when the network is connected to the internet. It filters the traffic based on a defined set of policies. A network firewall is a mediating agent between the e...

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Mar 13, 2019

Many of us have heard of the 80/20 rule, also known as the ‘Pareto Principle.’ Applied to mobile application security, the idea is that guarding against threats with the greatest potential impact can mitigate 80% of your risk and provide the biggest bang for the buck. A defense-in-depth ...

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Mar 13, 2019

As we have entered the new year, all of us are busy planning our IT budgets for the year. Have you discovered how to plan your cybersecurity budget for 2019? If not, then let’s investigate some facts and figures as to why cybersecurity should remain the highest priority in creating your IT bud...

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Mar 13, 2019

Using the internet lets you keep learning, connect with your loved ones and enjoy leisure activities. Older adults are increasingly becoming digitally savvy-but for some, the online world is a dangerous place. With more and more people are getting to grips with the Internet, cyber crimes such as onl...

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Mar 13, 2019

Introduction: Active Directory Security Risks Why is Microsoft Active Directory (AD) the business world’s most targeted asset? Because with just a few queries to AD from a compromised endpoint, attackers obtain all the information they need to steal domain admin credentials and move laterally ...

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Mar 13, 2019

Maffi Clinics, a chain of plastic surgery clinics in the United States, is notifying patients about a ransomware incident that briefly affected its systems. Unlike most cases involving ransomware, though, this one didn’t leave a scar, illustrating the power of strong security protocols. Accord...

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Mar 13, 2019

security of their software. Urgency to improve application security came when there was a wave of exploits and automated attacks in the form of worms and exploits started to hit. Unfortunately, since then, while software makers, software services providers, and enterprises began working to improve t...

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Mar 13, 2019

Marriott International. Hilton. Four Seasons. Trump Hotels. InterContinental. Hard Rock Hotel. These are some of the biggest hospitality chains in the business. But there’s another detail also that connects the above names: In the last couple of years, all of them have been at the receiving en...

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Mar 13, 2019

A discussion of how – and why – adversaries are using artificial intelligence to juice up malicious activities. When antivirus (AV) software first arrived in the late 1980s, the science of combating computer viruses was very straightforward. AV kept close track of known malicious files, ...

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Mar 12, 2019

SupplyPoint built their security platform with a solid foundation of Cisco products, beginning with Cisco’s ASA 5508-X. Cisco and SupplyPoint worked together to create an effective and holistic security solution to protect their data centers. To learn more about secure data center solutions.

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Mar 12, 2019

The distinction for a monitored alarm system is people for protection. Monitored alarm systems are connected to 24/7 monitoring center operators so your home is protected against theft, fire and carbon monoxide while you are out and about. The New York Post recently reported that Americans check the...

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Mar 12, 2019

In late January, we learned that millions of financial records were leaked from Texas-based data firm Ascension because its contractor, a New York-based document management startup, had misconfigured several Elasticsearch and Amazon S3 storage servers, leaving them with no password required. Outsour...

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Mar 12, 2019

It might seem odd at first to preface an article on email security with a history lesson. Ultimately though, understanding the primary problem email was designed to solve, and the fact that security was loosely bolted on after-the-fact in tiny bursts over many decades, helps tremendously in understa...

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Mar 12, 2019

Magecart is more than just a security problem—it’s also a business problem. When threat actors breached British Airways in September resulting in the compromise of thousands of customers’ credit cards, the world got a look at what the fallout of a modern security breach looks like....

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Mar 12, 2019

Recently the ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) and the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) together conducted a survey that aimed to pinpoint the current cybersecurity challenges faced by the manufacturing industry. According to the ISACA and the DMD...

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Mar 12, 2019

Pen-testing experts have made a worrisome discovery regarding the popular cloud storage service Box, specifically the Enterprise version used by some of the world’s biggest companies. Following up on a warning issued by infosec geeks earlier last year that failed to gain traction, Adversis res...

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Mar 12, 2019

We’ve heard a lot about Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) over the past few years. As a refresher, APTs are prolonged, aimed attacks on specific targets with the intention to compromise their systems and gain information from or about that target. While the targets may be anyone or anything&m...

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Mar 12, 2019

Employees are usually left to use their discretion with corporate-owned technology on your networks pretty much all the time. As such, a lot of power is in their hands when it comes to what emails to open, what files to download, what portable media to plug in and what sites to visit. There is an as...

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Mar 12, 2019

Everyone makes mistakes. The problem for businesses is that cybersecurity mistakes can often lead to data breaches, service outages, and other issues that severely impact the continued viability of the company. Yet, businesses can learn from their network security mistakes and come out stronger for ...

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Mar 11, 2019

IBM Data Risk Manager translates data security and risk into the language of business risk that the C-Suite understands. Check out this video to see how IBM Data Risk Manager’s highly visual dashboards can help business leaders easily assess and address potential risks and threats to their org...

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Mar 11, 2019

The start of employment is the time to give new hires a run down on security measures for your company. Ideally, a formal training session should occur where protocols are covered for security measures. There should also be an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for the employee to review and sign. Policies...

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Mar 11, 2019

It’s hard to travel far online without running into an article or advertisement for a virtual private network (VPN). As internet security concerns have grown, so has the demand for tools and services to fight back against hackers and their malware attacks. While coming up with hard numbers is ...

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Mar 11, 2019

Internet use and the number of connected devices continue to increase, but so do cyber threats. Parliament has approved new legislation to improve your security. Activities by cybercriminals are increasing in complexity and sophistication. On Tuesday 12 March, MEPs voted in favour of the cybersecuri...

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Mar 11, 2019

This post is a recap of a community talk given at a recent Elastic{ON} Tour event. Interested in seeing more talks like this? Check out the conference archive or find out when the Elastic{ON} Tour is coming to a city near you. The fastest supercomputer in the world, Summit, is housed at Oak Ridge Na...

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Mar 11, 2019

Last week at RSA Conference 2019, Fortinet won an Excellence Award for "Best Security Company" and a Trust Award for “Best UTM Security Solution” at the 2019 SC Awards held in San Francisco during RSAC. “The Excellence Award honors those organizations and individuals whos...

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Mar 11, 2019

The agility and benefits of cloud computing are undeniable. Forrester predicts that the total global public cloud market will be $178 billion in 2018, up from $146 billion in 2017, and will continue to grow at a 22 percent compound annual growth rate. And IDC forecasts that by 2020, more than 90 per...

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Mar 11, 2019

In today’s technology age, there are creeping addictions that many have but few acknowledge. The worst pandemic of which we suffer today may actually be an addiction to passwords as the primary security perimeter to our cyber assets. Think about it for a second. How many passwords do you need ...

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Mar 11, 2019

Officials in Jackson County, a rural area in the southeastern US state of Georgia, were forced over the weekend to pay hackers almost half a million dollars after a ransomware attack brought its entire fleet of computer systems to its knees. According to statescoop.com, the county government’s...

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Mar 11, 2019

A ransomware attack on Spokane, Washington-based Columbia Surgical Specialists on Jan. 9 resulted in unauthorized access of medical records of almost 400,000 patients, the healthcare provider said in a press release. Although the FBI and security companies advise organizations not give in to hacker ...

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Mar 11, 2019

Over the last decade or so, it has become increasingly obvious that cybersecurity is no longer just a local issue. As the world has leaped into a digital era with communication in the blink of an eye and the click of a mouse, cybersecurity has gone beyond borders. It is now a truly global phenomenon...

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Mar 11, 2019

Let’s face it — security threats are growing, both in quantity and complexity. To combat these threats, organizations are looking for new ways to address increasingly sophisticated use cases beyond what’s normally addressed through a traditional security investigation and event management (SIEM) so...

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Mar 10, 2019

When there is a lot to lose, cyber security needs to be a priority. Like in the manufacturing sector. Imagine a competitor releasing your prototype for a rip off price only a few weeks before you were planning to go public. Your investment in (years of) research and development would go to waste. Or...

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Mar 10, 2019

Our research team has uncovered a new ransomware campaign we nicknamed BigBobRoss that seems to target Comcast Business users. Fortunately, our security experts were able to identify a flaw within the ransomware’s code that can be used to decrypt encrypted files without paying the ransom. Tech...

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Mar 10, 2019

Cisco’s CISO Steve Martino and Dimension Data’s Group Security Executive Matt Gyde sit down to discuss managing security on a global basis, budgets, and breaches. It’s all about having the strategy, people, and technology to do what you need to do.

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Mar 09, 2019

The Internet thrives to be a basic yet effective digital communication medium for both personal and business purposes. While it greatly facilitates and accelerates the exchange of information around the world, the Internet remains an unsafe platform ridden with malware, phishing attacks, trojans, vi...

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Mar 08, 2019

2018 saw some of the biggest data breaches yet, with Marriott, Under Armour and Facebook suffering breaches that affected 500 million, 150 million and 100 million people respectively. It was also the year of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), which changed the way organisations handle cu...

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Mar 08, 2019

It’s a mad, mad, mad, malware world. The good news is that the number of malware attacks is decreasing. The bad news is that malware forms are proliferating, attackers are getting smarter, and companies are still vulnerable. Just how bad is the problem? The answer is: very. While known threats...

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Mar 08, 2019

Machine-to-machine communications are increasingly exploited in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The use of IoT devices in synchronized attacks is growing globally, with China listed as the top host country for DDoS weapons, followed at distance by the United States. The most common pro...

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Mar 08, 2019

It’s not often that we hear about a critical vulnerability in Google Chrome, and perhaps it’s even more rare when Google’s own engineers are urging users to patch. There are several good reasons why you need to take this new Chrome zero-day (CVE-2019-5786) seriously. For starters, ...

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Mar 08, 2019

Will Coinhive’s end lead to the end of browser-based cryptomining and cryptojacking? Cryptojacking stole the limelight away from ransomware at the end of 2017, becoming a major cyberthreat that continued into 2018. On March 8, 2019 Coinhive, the service that enables websites around the world t...

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Mar 08, 2019

There are so many techniques for moving data from one location to another that it can be hard to determine which one is right for the job. Small business owners, in particular, can become immensely stressed out when trying to figure out how to securely transfer their data, especially if sensitive cu...

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Mar 08, 2019

In our day-to-day lives, emergencies or accidents can and do happen. It can be on the roads, in the air, on the tracks – anywhere. When an incident like this occurs, the first people on the scene are the first responders – fire-fighters in the case of a fire, a traffic officer in the cas...

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Mar 07, 2019

Following a ransomware attack at a medical billing company, thousands of patients are being warned that their highly sensitive medical information and personal details were amongst the breached data. Michigan-based Wolverine Solutions Group (WSG) says that it discovered its systems had suffered a se...

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Mar 07, 2019

With the European Union’s landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) now in place a bit more than eight months, it seems that at least one of its messages has had some major resonance: A cover-up will be worse, and more expensive, than a crime. Among its multiple mandates, GDPR require...

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Mar 07, 2019

A firewall is a protective barrier which safeguards computing devices from online threats. The primary purpose of the firewall software is to shield the computer from internet threats and the threats arising within the local network. Firewalls are an integral part of a sophisticated security framewo...

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Mar 07, 2019

In a novel twist on “What happens to our accounts when we die,” we have “what happens to our abandoned accounts while we’re still alive”. In this case, UK ISP TalkTalk kept an old customer’s email account alive some eight years after she closed it—which left...

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Mar 07, 2019

Delta Risk has partnered with Cybersecurity Insiders to examine the latest trends in cloud security. Everyone who completes this comprehensive survey will receive a copy of the complete 2019 Cloud Security Report as a thank you as soon as it is published. The survey is based on real-time feedback fr...

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Mar 07, 2019

Most security solutions are designed to protect against outside threats. However, research shows business owners should focus more on insider attacks. According to a study conducted by Cybersecurity Insiders, 90 percent of organizations feel at risk of an insider attack, with 53 percent of responden...

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Mar 07, 2019

The concept of upgrading skills without going full time has generated a lot of buzz. Simply search for “certifications in demand” in any search engine, and you will see enormous results in a fraction of a second. You will come across many certification programs belonging to different ver...

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Mar 07, 2019

Digital forensics, a branch of forensic science, is an increasingly popular domain, with many lucrative and career advancement opportunities in various industries. The science of digital forensics helps track hackers, retrieve stolen data, investigate the causes of incidents, and provide digital evi...

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Mar 07, 2019

Insider threats are employee-performed threats that are becoming more common. According to CA Technologies, 31% of the organizations believe that insider threat causes more damage as compared to those 14% who believe damages from external threats are more acute [1]. Yet, most of the employers do not...

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Mar 07, 2019

Cybersecurity is a growing industry with a prominent issue of the skill gap. Even the World Economic Forum mentioned in its January 2019 report that the United States has over 200,000 cybersecurity skills requiring job vacancies and employers are facing a tough time to fill them [1]. This huge imbal...

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Mar 07, 2019

in a perfect world, businesses wouldn’t have to worry about cybersecurity. Instead of worrying about becoming the next “Massive Data Breach at headline, they would be able to focus solely on growing their market share. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case. Every day, malicious actors...

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Mar 07, 2019

The skyrocketing adoption of Microsoft Office 365 has made it a valuable target for cybercriminals. While Microsoft’s security tools and capabilities are a great start, many enterprises moving to Office 365 are finding that they need greater protection across all their cloud applications. The Palo A...

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Mar 07, 2019

Espionage among nations is not a new phenomenon; it has existed since the early medieval period. The world of spies has evolved with the times, and we are now facing a bigger challenge under the name of cyber espionage. This new form of organized and deliberate threat uses cyber warfare techniques t...

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Mar 07, 2019

The skyrocketing adoption of Microsoft Office 365 has made it a valuable target for cybercriminals. While Microsoft’s security tools and capabilities are a great start, many enterprises moving to Office 365 are finding that they need greater protection across all their cloud applications. The Palo A...

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Mar 07, 2019

input#report_img { margin-right: 60px; } Data and applications reside everywhere, on the network, endpoints, and in the constantly evolving cloud ecosystem. As a result, organizations are now faced with securing a multitude of applications, users, devices and infrastructures – all hosting sensitive...

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Mar 07, 2019

The skyrocketing adoption of Microsoft Office 365 has made it a valuable target for cybercriminals. While Microsoft’s security tools and capabilities are a great start, many enterprises moving to Office 365 are finding that they need greater protection across all their cloud applications. The Palo A...

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Mar 07, 2019

Threat actors conceal their attacks in SSL traffic to evade corporate defenses. Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform provides ironclad protection against cyberattacks, while eliminating blind spots introduced by encrypted traffic. Magnifier behavioral analytics, a cloud-based app for the A...

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Mar 07, 2019

Cyberattacks continue to disrupt businesses. Spending on security feels endless, and legacy security tools require analysts to manually stitch together insights from disconnected sources before acting. The Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform prevents successful cyberattacks through autom...

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Mar 07, 2019

Threat actors conceal their attacks in SSL traffic to evade corporate defenses. Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform provides ironclad protection against cyberattacks, while eliminating blind spots introduced by encrypted traffic. Magnifier behavioral analytics, a cloud-based app for the A...

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Mar 07, 2019

The goal of the cybersecurity industry is to prevent successful cyberattacks. However, today's point product approach brings additional challenges: proliferation of products, duplicate features, increasing operational costs, and shortage of skilled resources. This traditional approach to cybersecur...

whitepaper

Mar 07, 2019

The skyrocketing adoption of Microsoft Office 365 has made it a valuable target for cybercriminals. While Microsoft’s security tools and capabilities are a great start, many enterprises moving to Office 365 are finding that they need greater protection across all their cloud applications. The Palo A...

whitepaper

Mar 07, 2019

Threat actors conceal their attacks in SSL traffic to evade corporate defenses. Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform provides ironclad protection against cyberattacks, while eliminating blind spots introduced by encrypted traffic. Magnifier behavioral analytics, a cloud-based app for the A...

whitepaper

Mar 07, 2019

Data and applications reside everywhere, on the network, endpoints, and in the constantly evolving cloud ecosystem. As a result, organizations are now faced with securing a multitude of applications, users, devices and infrastructures – all hosting sensitive data that is critical to business operati...

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Mar 07, 2019

The most promising weapon in the endpoint security arsenal is machine learning with its ability to quickly learn, make instant decisions, and enable rapid response to prevent threats rather than dealing with them during execution or after the fact. One of the main advantages of machine learning is t...

whitepaper

Mar 07, 2019

Cyberattacks continue to disrupt businesses. Spending on security feels endless, and legacy security tools require analysts to manually stitch together insights from disconnected sources before acting. The Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform prevents successful cyberattacks through autom...

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Mar 07, 2019

Organizations should select security products that provide superior security value, not just in terms of monetary cost but also in terms of its security effectiveness. This brief discusses the core measurements used to determine security effectiveness as it relates to endpoint security solutions.

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Mar 07, 2019

The goal of the cybersecurity industry is to prevent successful cyberattacks. However, today's point product approach brings additional challenges: proliferation of products, duplicate features, increasing operational costs, and shortage of skilled resources. This traditional approach to cybersecur...

whitepaper

Mar 07, 2019

The firewall is the foundation of enterprise data security. All firewalls are not created equal, though and no two organizations have the same needs, risks and data flow. You need a firewall to protect against today’s advanced attacks while preserving the performance and uptime critical to foster in...

whitepaper

Mar 07, 2019

The most promising weapon in the endpoint security arsenal is machine learning with its ability to quickly learn, make instant decisions, and enable rapid response to prevent threats rather than dealing with them during execution or after the fact. One of the main advantages of machine learning is t...

whitepaper

Mar 07, 2019

The growth in encrypted (SSL/TSL) traffic traversing the Internet is on an explosive up-turn. And, unfortunately, criminals have learned to leverage the lack of visibility and identification within encrypted traffic to hide from security surveillance and deliver malware. Read this paper to learn whe...

whitepaper

Mar 07, 2019

Data and applications reside everywhere, on the network, endpoints, and in the constantly evolving cloud ecosystem. As a result, organizations are now faced with securing a multitude of applications, users, devices and infrastructures – all hosting sensitive data that is critical to business operati...

whitepaper

Mar 07, 2019

Organizations should select security products that provide superior security value, not just in terms of monetary cost but also in terms of its security effectiveness. This brief discusses the core measurements used to determine securityeffectiveness as it relates to endpoint security solutions.

whitepaper

Mar 07, 2019

The most promising weapon in the endpoint security arsenal is machine learning with its ability to quickly learn, make instant decisions, and enable rapid response to prevent threats rather than dealing with them during execution or after the fact. One of the main advantages of machine learning is t...

whitepaper

Mar 07, 2019

The firewall is the foundation of enterprise data security. All firewalls are not created equal, though and no two organizations have the same needs, risks and data flow. You need a firewall to protect against today’s advanced attacks while preserving the performance and uptime critical to foster in...

whitepaper

Mar 07, 2019

Organizations should select security products that provide superior security value, not just in terms of monetary cost but also in terms of its security effectiveness. This brief discusses the core measurements used to determine security effectiveness as it relates to endpoint security solutions.

whitepaper

Mar 07, 2019

The growth in encrypted (SSL/TSL) traffic traversing the Internet is on an explosive up-turn. And, unfortunately, criminals have learned to leverage the lack of visibility and identification within encrypted traffic to hide from security surveillance and deliver malware. Read this paper to learn wh...

blog article

Mar 06, 2019

Today's LTE and 4G networks have been playing an important role in supporting mobile broadband services (e.g., video conferencing, high-definition content streaming, etc.) across millions of smart devices, such as smartphones, laptops, tablets and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The number of ...

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Mar 06, 2019

Before I joined NowSecure, I was a cybersecurity engineer at MITRE, and confident I could do my job well with the collection of open source software (OSS) tools I used every day. After testing the NowSecure automated mobile app security testing tool, it was clear the solution could help my two colle...

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Mar 06, 2019

Moving a WordPress website from HTTP to HTTPS should be a priority for any webmaster. Recent statistics show that over 33% of website administrators across the web use WordPress and many of these websites have still not added an SSL certificate. Why is Important to Have a WordPress SSL Certificate? ...

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Mar 06, 2019

Despite the decline in the number of ransomware infections over the last year, there are several ransomware families that are still active. Ransom.Troldesh, aka Shade, is one of them. According to our product telemetry, Shade has experienced a sharp increase in detections from Q4 2018 to Q1 2019. Wh...

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Mar 06, 2019

US cybersecurity and data privacy laws are, to put it lightly, a mess. Years of piecemeal legislation, Supreme Court decisions, and government surveillance crises, along with repeated corporate failures to protect user data, have created a legal landscape that is, for the American public and America...

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Mar 06, 2019

The complex and unreadable strings that make up a valid password are impractical for ordinary people, and companies are looking for a cleaner way to protect their accounts. Although the password protection system in the computer network has been improved, people have not. When major security vulnera...

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Mar 06, 2019

Results of an independent survey of 3,100 IT managers commissioned by Sophos. To understand the realities of endpoint security today, Sophos commissioned independent research specialist Vanson Bourne to survey 3,100 IT managers across the globe. The resulting paper reveals the experiences, concerns ...

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Mar 06, 2019

Eric Stevens, vice president of engineering and principal architect at ProtectWise, discusses the current state of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity and the company's recent report on the topic, The State of AI in Cybersecurity. This video covers these questions and more: How did you get ...

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Mar 05, 2019

MDR, which stands for Managed Detection & Response, is an all-encompassing threat detection system, which arose from the need for small/medium sized organisations who lack resources to be able to monitor their network systems in-house. It provides a cost-effective alternative to SIEM (Security I...

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Mar 05, 2019

The US election might be different in 2020 thanks to a project by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the US Department of Defense research division, aiming at bullet-proofing voting machines by moving away from proprietary software that can’t be properly evaluated for bugs, wri...

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Mar 05, 2019

There is no denying that a lot of tasks nowadays are performed online, our mobile phones, laptops, and tablets have become an extension of ourselves. However, internet security has become a major issue in this digital era. This is most likely due to the hackers and cyber criminals that disguise them...

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Mar 05, 2019

IT security is expected to grow 28 percent between 2016 and 2026, making this field an attractive career option. Many professionals turn to certifications to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Today, we take a closer look at the CompTIA Security+ certification and ask the question &nda...

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Mar 05, 2019

BDO proudly supports women of the future.  BDO in Brisbane's Assistant Manager, Farah Chamseddine, shares her career journey and why she enjoys managing the risks and challenges associated with Cyber Security.

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Mar 05, 2019

What is endpoint security? Endpoint security is the protection of endpoints - any and all devices that connect to your business network including laptops and mobile devices. Protecting business devices is essential, not only because they likely contain sensitive data and customer information, but th...

blog article

Mar 05, 2019

Data breaches are a constant in today’s headlines, but in recent years the risk has been front and center of some of the most significant M&A deals. In 2017, Verizon discounted its acquisition price by $350 million when Yahoo belatedly disclosed that it experienced several massive breaches...

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Mar 05, 2019

Are businesses losing the fight against cyberattacks? How can businesses change the cybersecurity paradigm? VMware networking and security leader Tom Gillis dives into the five enterprise cybersecurity trends you need to know. Learn about new approaches to business security that could finally help y...

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Mar 05, 2019

The Healthcare industry is one of the most targeted sectors when it comes to phishing and broad cyber attacks. As highlighted in our previous infographic, each month at least one healthcare institution was the target of significant breaches. The number of people affected by these breaches is enormou...

blog article

Mar 05, 2019

Whether you are just kicking off your career in cybersecurity or are in the process of building a security team, it can be difficult to know where you should focus your attention to avoid potential missteps along the way. To help, we asked some seasoned pros to share what they’ve learned over ...

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Mar 05, 2019

Whether your business has only one location or is a multinational corporation, company culture matters, especially in the case of cybersecurity. When security is treated as a priority from the top down and in every office location, it has the best chance of successfully fending off attacks. Two of t...

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Mar 05, 2019

Modern technologies such as Wi-Fi networks have created enormous convenience for businesses. The ability to connect computers and other assets to a network without having to run data cabling to every workstation simplifies setting up new workers and workstations. However, Wi-Fi access points have al...

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Mar 05, 2019

Ripper is a type of virus that randomly infects disk write heads when its active in memory. It infects the disk writes, making the data invalid. Ripper virus can be less harmful, or it can be threatening, or it can destroy the whole system. Regardless of the intensity of the attack, be it big or sma...

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Mar 04, 2019

We’re pleased to say that the QuintessenceLabs team has prepared an exciting display for the annual RSA Conference, all about the security risk of quantum computers and quantum cybersecurity solutions that address it. Find us on the expo floor at booth 1735 in the South Hall, not far from the ...

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Mar 04, 2019

Most organizations have already invested heavily in cybersecurity solutions. From firewalls to proxies to endpoint protection to DLP, the average firm has more than 40 types of security technologies in place, each generating telemetry that grows every year. With employees, contractors, partners, and...

blog article

Mar 04, 2019

Canada's new data breach reporting requirements, contained in Division 1.1 of PIPEDA, are in effect. Are you prepared? If you've ever thought "I don't have information that anyone would want" or "I'm too small to be a target for a cyber-attack", then you're al...

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Mar 04, 2019

Edwin Lim, director of professional services - APJ, Trustwave, a Singtel company . The level of integration that third-party vendors and services have in the enterprise environment is introducing risks vectors that are not well understood, says Edwin Lim of Trustwave. In this video interview at the ...

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Mar 04, 2019

Get a complimentary copy of IDC's Solving the "Password Problem" for Better Security Despite the sophisticated cyber security measures businesses are putting in place, something as simple as password security continues to pose a major threat. Employees battle password overload every day, and aren't...

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Mar 04, 2019

Explore the state of password security in 2018 and what you can do to stay secure. LastPass has analyzed 43,000 business to show where password habits fall short. You know password management is important. But is your business failing to invest in this easy security and productivity win? In our fir...

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Mar 03, 2019

95 % of security breaches involve human error. Yet, only 11% of global companies conduct monthly awareness training. Mimecast Awareness Training delivers effective online security training to employees in roughly three minutes a month. Each monthly training module is anchored on a short video in the...

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Mar 02, 2019

Cloud services help you achieve compliance with lower costs and less efforts. When it comes to being compliant with various regulations or industrial standards, organizations should consider conducting risk assessments for the cloud services they are using or considering to adopt. These assessments ...

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Mar 01, 2019

By 2020, Gartner predicts the total number of IoT devices will reach 20.4 billion. At the same time, DDoS attacks are on the rise, with Cisco estimating that the number of DDoS attacks exceeding 1 gigabit of traffic per second will soar to 3.1 million by 2021. This is no coincidence: IoT devices are...

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Mar 01, 2019

Spectre, a seemingly never-ending menace to processors, is back in the limelight once again thanks to the Universal Read Gadget. First seen at the start of 2018, Spectre emerged alongside Meltdown as a major potential threat to people’s system security. Meltdown and Spectre. Meltdown targeted ...

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Mar 01, 2019

While IT and OT integration has brought about new levels of operational efficiency, it has also introduced serious cyber risks that conventional IT security approaches might fail to address, says IBM Security's Paul Garvey.

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Mar 01, 2019

Sergio Caltagirone, director of threat intelligence and analytics, Dragos. Industrial control systems run the technology used in advanced manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, electricity generation, oil and gas, power plants used by hospitals and much more. Thankfully, these systems have been relatively ...

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Mar 01, 2019

Avast partners with mobile carriers to provide the security consumers need. Data breaches, stolen passwords, spyware — consumers are all too familiar with the dangers of today’s digital world, and they’re worried. According to a study done by Wipro, if you take all the data theft o...

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Mar 01, 2019

Breach readiness must take center stage for every organization. It is no longer a matter of ‘if’ a breach will occur but ‘when’. Nothing can disrupt a business faster than a data breach. Any organization that stores or handles any personally identifiable information (PII) for...

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Mar 01, 2019

Digital Transformation is a journey underway in organizations across the globe. Defined as an organization’s rapid adoption of technology and increased integration of business processes, Digital Transformation creates opportunities to gain strategic efficiencies and capabilities, by providing ...

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Mar 01, 2019

The modern world is addicted to the use of mobile devices. Virtually every activity or task handled electronically can be performed with a mobile device, including: shopping, banking, entertainment, and even controlling other devices in the workplace, shop, and home. No doubt, app development compan...

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Feb 28, 2019

If you think back to last year, Coinhive was everywhere. The service offered any website an arguably legitimate way of generating income that didn’t rely upon online adverts. And plenty of well-known sites, such as Showtime, Salon.com and The Pirate Bay, were happy to give it a go. Rather than...

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Feb 28, 2019

Learn the few simple things to secure your network against cybercriminals and make sure that your network is extra safe. Edit your setting to block unauthorized access to computer and network. Follow these rules that can help you control the traffic, and will not allow unauthorized access to your sy...

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Feb 28, 2019

Did you know, there are countless ways through which viruses can enter your laptops and computers? Viruses and malware are types of malicious software specially designed by cyber crooks to infect your computers. These malicious software spreads from one system to another and can wipe away all your l...

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Feb 28, 2019

Anyone in a healthcare organization can find themselves targeted through phishing and business email compromise (BEC) — some of the industry’s most pervasive and damaging cyber threats. As our new infographic shows, many employees aren’t prepared to protect against these attacks, w...

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Feb 28, 2019

An endpoint is any device that is connected to the network and has two-way communication with the network. This could include laptops, desktops, and special purpose systems like Point of Sale (POS) terminals, ATMs, ticket counters, kiosks, and servers. Until a few years ago, attackers breached the p...

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Feb 28, 2019

With threats like ransomware, businesses can’t afford to leave their networks and data unsecured. If you've been wondering whether your business requires antivirus protection, the short answer is yes. Even though Windows 10 has its own well-rated built-in antivirus program, Windows Defende...

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Feb 28, 2019

It is often said that each new year brings more cybersecurity threats than the previous one. So, how is 2019 shaping up so far compared to 2018? Has the new year kicked off with better threat protection than the last year, or are cyber threats getting worse? Let’s look at some of the major eve...