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Playing the blame game: Breaking down cybersecurity attribution
Attributing the adversary behind a cyber attack ranks as perhaps the hardest challenge in all of cyber security, well beyond securing networks from intrusions, for the simple …
Highly lucrative Ransomware as a Service attacks poised to accelerate in 2017
Ransomware can be likened to global warming. It’s been around for years, but it’s now becoming an epidemic which needs serious attention. According to a recent survey …
The difficult path to cyber resilience
Global organizations are more confident than ever that they can predict and resist a sophisticated cyber attack, but are falling short of investments and plans to recover from …
Deadlines for investigating and reporting data breaches
75% of organisations set fixed time limits for investigating potential security incidents, according to Balabit. However, 44% of respondents reported missing internal or …
Week in review: Yahoo breach, malvertising targeting routers, the economics of ransomware
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Malvertising campaign compromises routers instead of computers The attackers current …
Secure websites brought to you by the letter S
What’s so special about the letter S? It’s one of the most frequently used letters in the English language, a regular sponsor of Sesame Street, and is so common that Vanna …
Delayed breach notifications open door to regulatory fines
As more data breaches occur everyday and more data privacy regulations come into force, such as EU GDPR, organizations are beginning to make data governance and data …
Growth rates of cryptographic keys and certificates
A new study conducted by Dimensional Research evaluated current and projected growth rates of cryptographic keys and digital certificates in the enterprise for 2016 and 2017. …
New sheriffs in town: No More Ransom
A couple of months ago, Intel Security, Kaspersky Lab, Dutch National Police and Europol announced the No More Ransom initiative. Such an initiative was a true example of the …
Approaching security self-sufficiency
As part of my role as CSO, I’m extremely lucky to get to have conversations with CISOs, CTOs, and other technology leaders across industries. One of the things that has always …
The economics of ransomware revealed
70 percent of businesses infected with ransomware have paid ransom to regain access to business data and systems. In comparison, over 50 percent of consumers surveyed said …
Consumers worry more about cybercrime than physical crime
Consumers are more worried about cybercrime than physical world crime, according to Sophos. The survey polled 1,250 consumers in the US, UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. …