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Consumers regularly share passcodes, creating compromising situations
Consumers keep more and more sensitive personal and professional information on their mobile phones, but most people remain alarmingly casual about adequately protecting that …

The new CISO imperative: Solving the information management paradox
In the drive to become more cyber resilient in 2017, organizations are extending risk management that is traditionally based on parametric measures (i.e., data loss prevention …

93% of SOC managers unable to triage all potential threats
In mid-2016, Intel Security commissioned a primary research study to gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which enterprises use SOCs, how they have changed over time, …

DevSecOps to drive the digital imperative
Dan Hushon, CSC’s CTO, has identified six trends around the philosophy of DevSecOps that company leaders need to be thinking about to drive digital transformation. …

Law enforcement operation targets users of DDoS tools
From 5 to 9 December 2016, Europol and law enforcement authorities from Australia, Belgium, France, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, …

How to create a safer shopping experience
The annual holiday season has arrived. The air grows crisp (at least in the Northern hemisphere), new, cool gadgets are released and cyberattacks, along with cologne ads, …

12 tips for implementing secure business practices
Optiv Security shared a list of a dozen tips for implementing secure business practices during the 2016 holiday season. Security experts developed these recommendations to …

New minimum code signing requirements for use by all CAs
The Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC), an advocacy group committed to the advancement web security, announced the Code Signing Working Group has released new …

Waterfall Security: Impact of IIoT on cybersecurity
Ten or twenty years ago, the protection of a critical piece of industrial infrastructure meant building a wall around it – or at least a perimeter fence with razor wire on the …

Week in review: OpenVPN audit, cybersecurity gamification, new issue of (IN)SECURE
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts, videos and articles: The global decline of cybersecurity confidence According to this …

CISOs must assess risks and identify the real security budget
Organizations spend an average of 5.6 percent of the overall IT budget on IT security and risk management, according to Gartner. However, IT security spending ranges from …

Exploring data security in the legal sector and beyond
BitSight analyzed the Security Ratings of more than 20,000 organizations in six industries – Finance, Legal, Healthcare, Retail, Government and Energy. The objective was to …
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