cybersecurity
53% of enterprises have no idea if their security tools are working
The majority of organizations don’t know if the security tools they deploy are working, and are not confident they can avoid data breaches, according to AttackIQ. AttackIQ …
Assessing the efficiency of phishing filters employed by email service providers
Technology companies could be doing much more to protect individuals and organizations from the threats posed by phishing, according to research by the University of Plymouth. …
Flaws allow attackers to bypass payment limits on Visa contactless cards
Flaws that allow attackers to bypass the payment limits on Visa contactless cards have been discovered by researchers Leigh-Anne Galloway and Tim Yunusov at Positive …
While cybercriminals abuse Twitter, threat researchers use it to boost threat intelligence efforts
Cybercriminals are abusing Twitter via tech support scams, command-and-control (C&C) operations and data exfiltration, according to Trend Micro. Misuse of social networks …
How to secure your data as you go digital
To scale more efficiently and serve customers better, companies are moving more workloads and services to the cloud. According to IDG, 37 percent of companies are increasing …
Security trends to follow at Black Hat USA 2019
Black Hat USA 2019 is just around the corner! Selecting which sessions to attend from among the conference’s jam-packed catalog of training sessions, panels and briefings can …
How effective is your security operations center?
While the SOC is considered an essential or important component of business, most security professionals rate their SOC’s effectiveness as low, and 49 percent say it is not …
Cloud adoption and security are not mutually exclusive
As organizations continue to adopt cloud services to achieve their desired business objectives, many don’t realize that the thing that makes cloud computing great – …
The dynamic of modern security challenges: Issues security leaders face today
We sat down with Neil Weicher, CTO & Founder, NetLib Security, to discuss encryption technologies, the threat of legacy applications, the complexity of cloud security, …
The rise of biometrics and passwordless security
Whether you realize it or not, our current era of mobile and cloud computing can be defined, both positively and negatively, by shared secrets. Shared secrets — passwords, …
Damaging insider threats rise to new highs in the past year
70 percent of organizations are more frequently seeing insider attacks, with 60 percent experiencing one or more within the last 12 months, and 68 percent feeling “extremely …
The need for scalable OT security
As manufacturers and other industrial network owners are becoming more security conscious, they are coming up against security performance issues. Operational Technology (OT) …