The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the many challenges involved in developing and implementing contact-tracing apps to help in the battle against COVID-19. Also featured: A discussion of emerging privacy issues and a report on why account takeover fraud losses are growing.
Users - One of the Weakest Links in Your Cybersecurity Strategy
They say 'it's all about who you know' - for cybersecurity, that's partially true. If a cyberattacker knows your users, there's a good chance they can get into your network. Why? Because they can take what they know - usually an email address or...
Designing Security as a User Experience
The ongoing battle between attackers and defenders have left valid users caught in the middle. Protecting user accounts with aggressive security policies leads to false positives and needlessly locks valid users out of their account, while lenient security policies lead to...
A key disconnect exists between awareness of financial services fraud schemes and mitigation, according to the latest "Faces of Fraud" survey sponsored by Appgate. Mike Lopez, vice president at the firm, describes some key findings.
Designing Security as a User Experience
The ongoing battle between attackers and defenders have left valid users caught in the middle. Protecting user accounts with aggressive security policies leads to false positives and needlessly locks valid users out of their account, while lenient security policies lead to...
Users - One of the Weakest Links in Your Cybersecurity Strategy
They say 'it's all about who you know' - for cybersecurity, that's partially true. If a cyberattacker knows your users, there's a good chance they can get into your network. Why? Because they can take what they know - usually an email address or...
Account Takeover is one of the biggest threats that banks are facing today. With 3.8 billion data records compromised worldwide in 2018, it is evident that despite implementation of cybersecurity measures, digital channels remain vulnerable. Adversaries have a variety of weapons at their disposal, which makes...
One of the largest fines to date for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation has been announced by Germany's federal privacy and data protection watchdog, the BfDI, against 1 & 1 Telecommunications, in part for inadequate authentication mechanisms. The company plans to appeal.
Securing user accounts from both bots and human attackers has become one of the most fundamental challenges of delivering modern applications and services. Attackers continuously develop ever more sophisticated techniques for taking over user accounts.
Aggressive security policies lead to false positives and...
The enterprise has embraced the public cloud. But tension and misalignment between CloudOps and business stakeholders impedes your organization from achieving all that it can.
Moreover, customers expect speed, scale and business agility from the cloud. CloudOps require continuous governance of security,
compliance...
Application fraud continues to be a significant problem for FIs across the U.S. As identity crimes continue to grow, it is increasingly difficult for FIs to determine who they are dealing with in all delivery channels.
Download this whitepaper to learn the effects of online application fraud in the banking industry...
Armed with billions of stolen records, fraudsters create synthetic identities to apply for credit cards, loans, and other types of credit causing unprecedented losses to financial institutions.
Download this brief to find out how to block application fraud from the start.
The mobile and online channels are the future; being able to authenticate returning customers and determine who new applicants really are will be essential to successfully expanding product offerings in high-risk digital channels.
Download this whitepaper which explores:
How payment innovation is impacting fraud...
123456, password, password1: These are a few of the top passwords used by Fortune 1000 employees whose passwords and personally identifiable information have been exposed in third-party breaches. While the dangers of easy-to-guess passwords are well-known, even employees at top companies are guilty of bad password...
To explore how credential stuffing attacks and brute force attacks differ, we need to understand what they are and how they operate. Here is a quick summary.
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