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Incident response survival guide

All organizations are impacted by a security breach at some point. As the joke goes in the security industry, businesses fall into two categories: those that have been …

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Bad security habits persist, despite rising awareness

While 82 percent of respondents believe the IT security industry is making progress against cyber attacks, those gains are undercut by egregious security practices in critical …

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Should you trust your security software?

The complaint that security is broken isn’t new and even industry insiders are joining the chorus. Companies spent an estimated $75 billion last year on security products and …

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Improve SecOps by making collaboration easier

There’s one word that we’ve consistently been hearing from information security pundits year after year: Collaboration. More often than not, they were talking …

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Five ways to respond to the ransomware threat

The ransomware threat has taken a sharp upturn this year. In fact, a recent industry study found that nearly half of all U.S. businesses have experienced at least one …

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Automation isn’t one-size fits all

It’s no secret that security teams are understaffed despite increased pressure to deliver. Firewall engineers face an additional challenge when it comes to access request …

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Best practices for using military grade security

Governments and militaries around the world have long recognised that their lines of communications were often their weakest links and required some of the strongest …

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What differentiates a great CIO from simply a good one?

Earlier this month, Sophos announced the appointment of Tony Young as the company’s new global Chief Information Officer (CIO). Young started his career as a software …

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How to choose a perfect data control solution for your enterprise

Not long ago, people used to come to work and work off of a desktop computer, tied to the network. Today, they work on their mobile devices, physically untethered to it. In …

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Risk and the Pareto Principle: Applying the 80/20 rule to your risk management strategy

Enterprises these days are putting more resources into monitoring and managing business risk. And with good reason – in light of a growing number of vulnerabilities and …

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The current state of privileged access management practices

There’s a widening gulf between organizations that adhere to best practices for privileged access management, according to BeyondTrust. Password and credential …

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A closer look at IT risk management and measurement

In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2016, Casey Corcoran, Partner, FourV Systems, talks about the most significant trends cyber security and risk management. He …

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