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NTT Security to give away Gap Assessment at Black Hat USA 2017
This year at Black Hat USA 2017, NTT Security is focusing on incident response readiness with a promotion called Swimming with the Sharks: The Need for Proactive Critical …

Could e-discovery pros fill the insatiable demand for cybersecurity talent?
When looking at the cybersecurity industry from a jobs perspective, there is no denying demand for talent far exceeds supply. With many lingering vacant job requisitions, who …

Worldwide IT spending to grow 2.4 percent in 2017
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.5 trillion in 2017, a 2.4 percent increase from 2016, according to Gartner. This growth rate is up from the previous …

Don’t let cybercrime hold your innovation to ransom
When things break, our natural instinct is to look for someone to blame. Why? Because nothing happens by accident. It’s either done on purpose, a casualty of neglect or lack …

Enterprises face 3,680 potential phishing emails each week
GreatHorn analyzed more than 3.5 terabytes of data – over 373 million corporate emails – to gain insights into the sheer volume of email threats facing enterprises …

Security analytics and operations are becoming more difficult
A new Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) study, which involved a survey of more than 400 IT and cybersecurity professionals, found that 72 percent feel cybersecurity analytics …

The future of payments: sensor fingerprinting, facial recognition, retinal scanning and voice control
Viewpost surveyed a cross-section of 1,000 U.S.-based consumers, finding that overall, 80 percent of Americans are in support of payments technologies and currencies, …

What will it take to improve the ICS patch process?
While regular patching is indisputably good advice for IT networks, one of the main takeaways from the Petya and WannaCry attacks is that a lot of companies don’t do it. And …

Event-driven architecture to become essential skill
Achieving broad competence in event-driven IT will be a top three priority for the majority of global enterprise CIOs by 2020, according to Gartner. Defining an event-centric …

Telecoms don’t protect users from government overreach
The data stored on our mobile phones, laptops, and especially our online services can, when aggregated, paint a detailed picture of our lives—where we go, who we see, what we …

Getting the most out of your SIEM investment
Over the last 10-15 years, many organizations built Security Operations Centers (SOCs) on the backbone of security information and event management (SIEM) solutions. These …

Businesses overconfident about keeping attackers at bay
Despite the increasing number of data breaches and nearly 1.4 billion data records being lost or stolen in 2016, the vast majority of IT professionals still believe perimeter …
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