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Criminals are selling hacking services targeting world’s biggest companies
A new study – undertaken by Dr. Mike McGuire, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Surrey, and underwritten by Bromium – provides details of first-hand …
Global communications service providers struggling to fend off growing number of DDoS attacks
Global communications service providers, whose businesses are predicated on continuous availability and reliable service levels, are struggling to fend off a growing number of …
Industrial cybersecurity strategies need a radical rethink and should be built from the ground up
The paradigm shift brought forth by Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is significantly enhancing the digital and connectivity capabilities of …
Poor data management can cost organizations $20 million each year
Over the past decade, the amount of data generated has exploded; data growth and sprawl is so rampant that by 2025 we will generate more than 175 Zettabytes of data each year, …
Workforce diversity key to plugging the IT skills gap
An (ISC)2 study of employees in 1,000 organizations in the U.K. and 250 in the Netherlands reveals that workplace diversity in IT and security has become a key operational …
Photos: Infosecurity Europe 2019 expo floor
Infosecurity Europe 2019 is taking place this week in London. Here’s a view of the expo floor, the featured vendors include: Qualys, Anomali, Wandera, Proofpoint, …
An intelligence-driven approach to cyber threats
In the age of big data, it is easy to think that only machines can detect a signal amid the noise. While it’s true that big data tools can discover signals that might not be …
How privileged insiders threaten the security of global organizations
A new global survey from BeyondTrust explores the visibility, control, and management that IT organizations in the U.S., APAC, Europe and the Middle East have over employees, …
Will biometrics replace passwords for online payment authentication?
Over half of consumers in the UK (53 percent) are worried that the shift to biometrics to authenticate online payments will dramatically increase the amount of identity fraud, …
How much do you know about your invisible workforce?
The way work gets done is changing. To tap into specialized talent, organizations increasingly rely on the external workforce, which includes contingent workers such as …
Embrace chaos to improve cloud infrastructure resilience
Netflix is a champion of using chaos engineering to improve the resilience of its cloud infrastructure. That’s how it ensures its customers don’t have their Stranger Things …
2018 in numbers: Data breaches cost $654 billion, expose 2.8 billion data records in the U.S.
Cybercriminals exposed 2.8 billion consumer data records in 2018, costing over $654 billion to U.S. organizations, according to ForgeRock. Cyberattacks to U.S. financial …
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