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Four cybersecurity trends every CIO should know
The cybersecurity landscape in 2019 will likely bolster bigger, more complex threats and developments. Given the intricacy of today’s cyber security challenges, organisations …

There’s a sizable gap between confidence in security programs and their effectiveness
A Syncsort survey of over 300 respondents found that while 85 percent of respondents are either very or somewhat confident in their organization’s security program, 41 percent …

Evaluating €1bn in cybersecurity research funding
Crossword Cybersecurity looked at nearly 1,200 current and past research projects from academic institutions in the United Kingdom, United States, Europe, Australia, and …

Understanding how data becomes intelligence is central for any successful security program
Threat intelligence is one of the hottest terms in information security at the moment. But, as with so many buzzwords, it is often overused and misused. All the buzz has …

GDPR: Five tips for organizations to remain compliant
For the majority of UK businesses, a huge amount of time and resource was invested to become GDPR compliant in time for the May 2018 deadline. The cost of implementing GDPR …

Email security predictions: What we can expect in 2019
2018 shed a lot of light on how expensive successful phishing attacks can be, with the FBI reporting in July well over $12B in financial losses due to business email …

Small manufacturers play important role in supply chain security
Though the manufacturing sector does not attract the sheer volume of total cyberattacks as other areas of the economy, research has shown that coordinated cyber espionage …

Deception for proactive defense
This article is fourth in a five-part series being developed by Dr. Edward Amoroso in conjunction with the deception technology team from Attivo Networks. The article provides …

Encryption backdoors open a Pandora’s Box for cybersecurity
The amount of encrypted traffic online has grown exponentially. This growth has occurred in the wake of the Snowden revelations, as well as the continuous stream of stories …

Worldwide spending on IoT to reach $745 billion in 2019
Worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) is forecast to reach $745 billion in 2019, an increase of 15.4% over the $646 billion spent in 2018, according to IDC. IDC …

Is Privileged Access Management still a pain?
Every week seems to bring the story of a new customer data breach, but regardless of the individual details, the majority of incidents have one trait in common. The chances …

The rising importance of Data Loss Prevention in today’s data protection landscape
In this podcast, Roman Foeckl, founder and CEO of CoSoSys, talks about the growing importance of Data Loss Prevention at both endpoint and development level. Here’s a …
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