The financial services industry thrives on safety and security - exactly what PINs and passwords are not. They're easily stolen, hacked and forgotten - making them a "double fail" to your customers and your organization. Luckily, there's a better way - biometric authentication, which leading banks are adopting to...
The dark web has become a very effective resource for purchasing sinister educational materials. How-to guides are for sale on major dark web markets such as Hansa and AlphaBay and offer step-by-step instructions for drug trafficking, hacking, social engineering and many other cyber crimes.
Fraud guides, a subset...
Dark web vendors offer a wide range of technological crime. From distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to pre-recorded phone calls, there is a myriad of knowledge and listings for hacking & exploits.
In addition to materials for sale, the dark web is also home to a variety of forums designed to build...
The upcoming enforcement of GDPR puts the spotlight on data governance, but what about the potential impact on vendor risk management? Jacob Olcott of BitSight discusses how to prepare for this new generation of cybersecurity regulations.
This monthly Security Agenda will highlight some of the most recent additions to our course library. September's edition features Ed Amoroso on the evolution of the role of a CISO. Other influencers like Hearst CISO David Hahn, First U.S. CISO, Gen. Gregory Touhill, Retired and Jennings Aske, CISO of New...
Microsoft Active Directory is a de-facto standard across organizations of all sizes for directory services which requires DNS to function. Many organizations configure their Active Directory with Microsoft DNS as it is embedded with Windows server. While some find it convenient to integrate this "in-the-box"...
Complying with an agency checklist is only the first step in a meaningful security initiative. Taking action and setting policy to manage risks and defend against cyber threats is considerable work.
DNS data is an extraordinary valuable - and surprisingly underutilized - source of information that gets to the heart...
Malicious software poses an ever-increasing threat, not only because the number of malware programs are increasing, but also due to the continuously changing threat-landscape. Attackers are targeting users: deceiving them into visiting infected web pages, through cyber espionage, ransomware, and malicious attachments...
An objective performance testing was conducted on five security products during October 2017, with all but one of these products being Enterprise Endpoint Security products. A set of objective metrics that provide a comprehensive and realistic indication of the areas in which endpoint protection products may impact...
The endpoint security market continues to see growth due to the constant need by organizations to protect against an ever increasing onslaught of malicious threats. The nature of endpoint protection is changing as it moves away from focusing on protecting each single endpoint and more towards integration with broad...
In just the last year, we saw more than one million new malware variants introduced per day and the number of ransomware families tripled. The average ransom amount paid spiked 266 percent to $1,077.
As organizations struggle to deal with the rising security demands associated with complex networks and myriad,...
A survey of more than 420 small, mid and large-sized enterprises to understand attitudes towards and progress along the Office 365 journey has provided an insight into customer adoption of cloud technology.
Download this infographic to learn the key findings:
Cloud migration in EMEA is further along than predicted...
In a 2016 survey, more than 50 percent of respondents found threat hunting to be the most accurate way to determine the scope of events surrounding a discovered threat. By preparing for the inevitable breach, rather than believing it can be prevented, enterprises can deliver a better security posture and set the...
Adversaries, and cybercriminal organizations in particular, are building tools and using techniques that are becoming so difficult to detect that organizations are having a hard time knowing that intrusions are taking place. Passive techniques of watching for signs of intrusion are less and less effective....
In the current security climate, three absolute facts are relevant when it comes to security, an organization cannot prevent all attacks, an organization's network is going to be compromised, and 100 percent security does not exist. With breach all but inevitable, the goal of security is not just about stopping...
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