cybersecurity

Deception for proactive defense
This article is fourth in a five-part series being developed by Dr. Edward Amoroso in conjunction with the deception technology team from Attivo Networks. The article provides …

Battling attacks from global criminal networks in the financial sector
Every now and then, banks and financial institutions (and their customers) are targeted by opportunistic hackers, but they are much more worried about those that are smarter, …

Modern CISO challenges: Implementing DevSecOps, improving security operations
We sat down with Aaron Contorer, CEO at FP Complete, to learn more about what enterprises can do to increase their cybersecurity, the challenges related to DevSecOps …

Encryption backdoors open a Pandora’s Box for cybersecurity
The amount of encrypted traffic online has grown exponentially. This growth has occurred in the wake of the Snowden revelations, as well as the continuous stream of stories …

Is Privileged Access Management still a pain?
Every week seems to bring the story of a new customer data breach, but regardless of the individual details, the majority of incidents have one trait in common. The chances …

The rising importance of Data Loss Prevention in today’s data protection landscape
In this podcast, Roman Foeckl, founder and CEO of CoSoSys, talks about the growing importance of Data Loss Prevention at both endpoint and development level. Here’s a …

Rise of DevOps exposes organizations to risk via container vulnerabilities
60 percent of respondents to a Tripwire and Dimensional Research study reported their organizations have experienced container security incidents in the past year. Yet, of the …

Top vulnerabilities hospital executives should address immediately
The three most critical and common high-security cyber risks facing healthcare delivery organizations and their partners have been uncovered in an analysis by the Clearwater …

Shifting the burden: Long-term magnifying consequences
Computer geeks love their acronyms. Here’s one more: TANSTAAFL. There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. No, I’m not talking about the grilled Alaskan salmon meal you …

January 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Partly cloudy followed by heavy fog around Java
2018 ended with a bit of excitement. Shortly after November Patch Tuesday we saw a pair of Flash Player zero-days (November 20 and December 5), which were followed by just …

The average PC gamer has experienced almost 5 cyberattacks due to poor security habits
McAfee has released results from its survey, Game Over: The Future of Gaming Security, finding that while gamers profess to exhibit good cybersecurity habits there’s still …

The attack surface is growing faster than it has at any other point in the history of technology
Avast launched its annual Threat Landscape Report, detailing the biggest security trends facing consumers in 2019 as collected by the Avast Threat Labs team. Some of the key …
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