Finance teams becoming involved in cyber risk mitigation oversight
CFOs and their finance teams are toughening policies on suppliers and increasing insurance coverage as they are asked take on a larger role in defending their companies from …
Inside job: 6 ways employees pose an insider threat
CISOs and CIOs have seen the prospects of losing control over data and the accompanying data privacy and security concerns as the biggest hurdle to cloud adoption. According …
Business email compromise scams still happening, still successful
Despite repeated warnings issued by law enforcement, information sharing organizations, and security companies, Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams still abound and the …
Do CEOs know enough about cyber security?
One-third of CEOs and 43 percent of management teams are not regularly briefed on cyber security issues, according to Dimensional Research. Additionally, while 79 percent of …
Turn the Cyber Kill Chain against your attacker
As businesses move to the cloud, the rapid adoption of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is no surprise. Unfortunately, securing the cloud and the data within it is no easy …
Infosec pros have little confidence in UK’s cybersecurity readiness
Tenable Network Security asked information security practitioners from the UK about confidence in their respective organizations’ abilities to assess risk, invest in …
Cybercriminals will remain victorious in 2016, relief expected in 2018
From Ashley Madison to the United States Office of Personnel Management – and many, many others in between – what we now know is targets for cyber criminals and nation-state …
Human element of security to the fore at IRISSCON 2015
The most neglected part of security is the human factor – and yet it’s also the most vulnerable. Several of the speakers at the recently held IRISSCON cyber crime conference …
CISO at U.S. Bank offers tips for secure online purchasing
The thrill and chaos of holiday shopping has started, and unfortunately with that comes the inherent risk of fraud. With an increased threat of digital fraud, what can …
How UK businesses plan to tackle security threats in 2016
81% UK IT decision makers experienced some sort of data or cyber security breach in their organisation in 2015, according to training company QA. 66 per cent said that the …
Perspectives on the state of Internet security
In today’s digital world terms like hacker and worm are widely recognized. But in November 1988 remote breaching was unheard of, at least until the Morris worm was …
Information security innovation and the fast-paced threat landscape
Gary Warner recently became the Chief Threat Scientist at PhishMe. In this interview he talks about how his past positions prepared him for this new job title, information …