FICO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a new tool Thursday to score how strong businesses' protections are when it comes to cybersecurity. The tool, called the Assessment of Business Cybersecurity (ABC), uses an algorithm known as the FICO Cyber Risk Score to determine how secure a business or business sector is. The algorithm considers factors like the health of a company’s network infrastructure and the scope of their internet-exposed systems to reach a score, similar to a cr...
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UK-based security company Sophos’ synchronized IT security solution, Security Heartbeat, provide next-generation protection for small and medium enterprise. Alongside, the new Sophos XG series offer next-generation firewall and unified threat management (UTM). The first of its kind, Security Heartbeat combines both network and endpoint security, thus, making it easier and faster to detect network security issues, isolate infected devices and come up with immediate and targeted response and resol...
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India and Malaysia on Monday signed an agreement for cyber security and agreed to enhance cooperation in defence, including in maritime security, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his counterpart Najib Razak. Speaking at a joint media briefing after his talks with Razak, Modi said the recent spate of attacks in different countries, "not to mention the ceaseless terrorist attempts against India and Afghanistan are a reminder of the global nature of this threat"....
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On that note, the security player is making much of its 25-year heritage in the industry, and that customer data will be stored in a “European cloud away from prying eyes”. This, presumably, is a reference to the Edward Snowden revelations of widespread spying on user data in the US by the NSA....
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Consumers are bad at protecting themselves from online threats and that's probably the main argument why such a responsibility shouldn't be theirs to bear in the first place. Consequently, the UK government is considering building a national cybersecurity defence system, which should incorporate government agencies, businesses, telecoms and ISPs. During the CYBERUK 19, a conference set up and run by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ, said it was ...
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A new vulnerability in the core runc container code could potentially enable a malicious container to get access to the host operating system. Major vendors and cloud providers are already pushing out patches, but there are other things users can do to limit risk. A new serious vulnerability in container technology was publicly reported on Feb. 11, one that could potentially enable an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the host operating system. Container technology led by the Docker engine...
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