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CFO: Disrupting, taking control, and turning data into value
Chief financial officers (CFOs) at banks and insurance companies are playing a growing role in digital transformation by leveraging new data and analytic technologies and by …
HITB partners with BSides Dubai for free CommSec Track at HITB2018DXB
The HITB CommSec (community + security) track is a free-to-attend session with 30 and 60 minutes talks held during the 27th and 28th alongside the HITB2018DXB’s Exhibition. …
DevOps and security: How to make disjointed security and DevOps teams work effectively
As organizations build their “software factories”, leveraging the latest DevOps organizational models and CD/CI techniques to get applications out quickly, they still find …
Consumers can’t shake risky security habits
Despite almost half of U.S. consumers (49 percent) believing their security habits make them vulnerable to information fraud or identity theft, 51 percent admit to reusing …
Hybrid cloud complexity pushes organizations to look for more security tools
As more organizations embrace hybrid cloud – with more than 50 percent claiming a hybrid cloud setup – and serverless, now used by close to third of organizations, …
GPU side channel attacks can enable spying on web activity, password stealing
Computer scientists at the University of California, Riverside have revealed for the first time how easily attackers can use a computer’s graphics processing unit, or …
Countering threats: Steps to take when developing APIs
High profile data breaches resulting from faulty APIs continue to make headlines. In the last few months alone, T-Mobile’s data breach resulted in hackers stealing personal …
High risk vulnerability discovered in Sauter CASE Suite building automation software
Applied Risk researcher, Gjoko Krstic, has identified a security vulnerability in the Sauter CASE Suite, a software package used to handle building automation projects with …
Post implementation, GDPR costs higher than expected
A Versasec survey examining the global impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) nearly six months after its roll-out shows the privacy regulation costs more to …
Ensuring election integrity: The overlooked last mile of securing voter data
With 99 percent of America’s votes counted by computers, security experts agree that our elections remain extremely vulnerable for a cyberattack. Fourteen states are …
The building blocks of blockchain-based digital identity
In earlier articles, I discussed what a shared digital identity can do as well as which organizations are the right starting point to adopt a solution for digital identity …
Companies implementing DevSecOps address vulnerabilities faster than others
A new study from CA Veracode includes promising signs that DevSecOps is facilitating better security and efficiency, and provides the industry with the company’s first look at …