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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 …

45% of taxpayers do not securely store tax documents
Despite almost four in 10 (38 percent) taxpayers saying they are worried they will become a victim of tax fraud or tax identity theft during tax season, 45 percent admit to …

How to Marie Kondo your data
By now you’ve heard about Marie Kondo, the author of New York Times bestseller, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and star of Tidying Up, the new Netflix show that puts …

Nearly all consumers are backing up their computers, but data loss is here to stay
65.1 percent of consumers or their family member lost data as a result of an accidental deletion, hardware failure or software problem – a jump of 29.4 percentage points from …

Main threat source to industrial computers? Mass-distributed malware
Malicious cyber activities on Industrial Control System (ICS) computers are considered an extremely dangerous threat as they could potentially cause material losses and …

Organizations investing in security analytics and machine learning to tackle cyberthreats
IT security’s greatest inhibitor to success is contending with too much security data. To address this challenge, 47 percent of IT security professionals acknowledged their …

Security and privacy still the top inhibitors of cloud adoption
Cloud adoption is gaining momentum, as 36 percent of organizations are currently in the process of migrating to the cloud while close to 20 percent consider themselves to be …

Automatically and invisibly encrypt email as soon as it is received on any trusted device
While an empty email inbox is something many people strive for, most of us are not successful. And that means that we probably have stored away hundreds, even thousands, of …

Week in review: Employee cybersecurity essentials, ASUS attack, lessons learned from crypto hacks
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Attackers compromised ASUS to deliver backdoored software updates Unknown attackers have …