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Qualys Community Edition: Discover IT assets, manage vulnerabilities, scan web apps
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2018, Anthony Mogannam, Product Manager, SME/SMB Solutions at Qualys, talks about issues related to open source software and Qualys …

How leadership implements cyber resiliency across their organizations
A majority of executives around the world feel they face a “specialist-generalist” dilemma as to whom leads on cyber resiliency due to its critical nature across …

IT security teams are being locked out of IoT projects
Trend Micro revealed that organizations around the world are exposing themselves to unnecessary cyber risk by failing to give IT security teams a voice when planning IoT …

Software-defined networking is turning concern about security in the cloud on its head
In an era when enterprises always have to grapple with processing large amount of information through big data technology, security has emerged as the most important measure …

Ransomware is a big problem, but it’s also a big opportunity for MSPs to educate clients
While large-scale attacks such as WannaCry make headlines, ransomware attacks are just as likely to happen among small businesses as they are large enterprises. According to …

Less than a third of companies have dedicated cybersecurity insurance
Only one third of senior executives in UK organisations admit their company insurance currently covers them for a security breach and for the financial impact of data loss, …

Data breach reports to Information Commissioner increase by 75%
The number of reports of data security incidents received by the Information Commissioner (ICO) has increased by 75 per cent over the past two years, according to new analysis …

Number of smartphone users relying on software-only biometric security to grow 250%
A new report from Juniper Research predicts that the biggest shift in mobile payment security will be the move towards software-based methods, which rely on standard …

Week in review: Blocking compromised passwords, removing personal data from connected cars
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: 0patch releases micropatch for Windows Task Scheduler zero-day Acros Security, the …

The anatomy of fake news: Rise of the bots
Spreading misinformation has become a mainstream topic to the extent that even the term ‘Twitter bot’ is a well-recognised term establishing itself into the modern lexicon. …

80% of enterprises struggle to protect machine identities
Ninety-six percent of companies believe that effective protection of machine and human identities are equally important to the long-term security and viability of their …

Why pushback on the CCPA is wrong
Since GDPR was implemented on May 25th, 2018 one big question has been lurking in the U.S.: When will the U.S. Federal Government follow suit? With the spate of breaches over …