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As fraud attacks grow more sophisticated, a need for contextual detection strategies increases
Fraudsters are using a complex array of tools to build armies of fake accounts, 74% of all fraudulent accounts are created from desktops, and cloud service provider IP ranges …
Organizations still use low levels or no automation of key security and incident response tasks
Most organizations understand that automation is the path to achieve optimal workflows in the face of staff shortages and alert fatigue. Yet, 59% of the D3 Security 2019 …
Backdoors inevitably create vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malicious actors
73 percent of IT security professionals believe countries with government-mandated encryption backdoors are more susceptible to nation-state attacks. The Venafi survey on …
Women are increasingly climbing the cybersecurity leadership ladder
Women now represent 24% of the cybersecurity workforce. While the stronger representation of women in the cybersecurity workforce is encouraging, challenges like wage …
Securing your home increasingly means securing all of your IoT devices
The Internet of Things explosion has proven controversial due to the insufficient security measures in many of these internet-connected devices. IoT attacks increase And a new …
Current and emerging third-party cyber risk management approaches and challenges
Managing third-party cyber risk is critical for businesses, but a lack of continuous monitoring, consistent reporting, and other blind spots are creating challenges that could …
Consumers concerned about privacy but willing to take risks for convenience
In today’s connected world, businesses are prime targets for cyber attacks and unintentional missteps can result in critical exposure of consumers’ sensitive personal …
The CIO’s greatest roadblock to Agile development: Security governance
Today, the greatest roadblock CIOs face when adopting Agile development is not ‘security in general,’ but ‘security governance.’ We can define ‘security governance’ as the …
Anomali: Threat detection, investigation and response
In this Help Net Security podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2019, Nicholas Hayden, Senior Director of Threat Intelligence at Anomali, talks about how Anomali arms security …
Encryption deployment increases as organizations struggle to address compliance requirements
As organizations embrace the cloud and new digital initiatives such as the IoT, blockchain and digital payments the use of trusted cryptography to protect their applications …
90% of companies interested in crowdsourced security programs
The evolving threat landscape and perennial cybersecurity challenges are giving rise to community-based programs such as crowdsourced cybersecurity, an important evolution …
Financial sector recognizes the benefits of hybrid cloud but still struggles to enable IT transformation
The financial sector outpaces other industries in the adoption of hybrid cloud, with the deployment of hybrid cloud reaching 21% penetration today, compared to the global …
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