A research survey of individuals with incident response (IR) responsibilities for their organizations has revealed that although these cyber security professionals understand that IR depends upon technology integration, cross-organization collaboration, and the ability to detect and prioritize security incidents, that...
The security industry must find new ways to prevent the exfiltration of proprietary data by cybercriminals and other malicious actors to stop the growth of remediation costs, customer impacts, and reputational damage caused by data breaches.
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Organizations are scrambling to identify security weaknesses before their adversaries do. Having a consistent, systematic, and scalable methodology to properly assess your environment is essential. To begin you need a solid understanding of the organization, its components, what it relies on, and what could cause it...
Most sophisticated organizations have had their incident response plans in place for several years. But the landscape has changed, and incident response plans and planning that remain static are at risk of being counter-productive in today's environment. If you haven't dusted off your plan in even a couple of years,...
Too many organizations continue to address breach response from a reactive mode - having a crude disaster-recovery plan in place in case something "does" happen, rather than accepting that something "will" happen and proactively preparing for it. In this session, a panel of legal, technical and law-enforcement experts...
Another day, another data breach in the news. Ransomware at a hospital, the latest IRS breach, a phishing scam at Snapchat . . . you tune out the details. For every breach that makes headlines, dozens of other organizations have had data stolen or corrupted by hackers...or even their own users. Cyberthreats become...
Businesses around the world are seeing an increase in malware attacks, including ransomware like CryptoLocker, Locky, and zCrypt. These attacks can result in weeks of downtime, and some of the most damaging data breaches originated with malware, including the Target breach in 2014.
A robust malware defense could...
This monthly Security Agenda will highlight some of the most recent additions to our course library. April's edition features Visa's SVP Risk Services, Margaret Reid discussing how to keep CNP fraud at Bay. Other industry influencers like University of Michigan's Kevin Fu, Target's Chief Information Security Manager,...
Given the well-established IT infrastructure of most financial institutions, conventional wisdom might say onsite deployment is the best option for implementing an automated governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution. This paper provides the top five reasons why the cloud is a better deployment option: zero...
Advanced malware is capable of outsmarting the detection capabilities of a wide range of security tools. More than 70% of malware now includes sophisticated evasion technologies. And, to make detection even more difficult, the number of evasion methods found in each instance of malware has recently jumped from one or...
Advanced malware avoids being detected and can remain hidden for extended periods of time as it conducts complex and damaging cyberattacks. This sophisticated malware is usually designed to aggressively target anything and everything that can be monetized. How can organizations safeguard their data from these...
The best approach to building a security policy is by using a comprehensive, layered approach that covers all threats (both new and known). This policy needs to leverage real-time threat intelligence by addressing all threat vectors and all platform types as workloads migrate from physical to virtual to...
Too many businesses assume that the internet will be around forever, but that's faulty thinking and an impractical business practice, says Information Security Forum's Steve Durbin, a featured speaker at Information Security Media Group's Fraud and Breach Prevention Summit in Atlanta this month.
Most sophisticated organizations have had their incident response plans in place for several years. But the landscape has changed, and incident response plans and planning that remain static are at risk of being counter-productive in today's environment. If you haven't dusted off your plan in even a couple of years,...
Bryce Austin is a certified chief information security manager who weathered the storm as a senior group manager at Target during the retailer's November 2013 breach - a breach that resulted in the exposure of 40 million payment cards and personally identifiable information linked to an additional 70 million...
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