cybersecurity
FBI warns farming industry about equipment hacks, data breaches
As Internet-connected equipment is increasingly used in many industry sectors, alerts like the latest one issued by the FBI to US farmers will likely become a regular …
US government is lousy at cybersecurity
SecurityScorecard released its 2016 Government Cybersecurity Report, a comprehensive analysis that exposes alarming cybersecurity vulnerabilities across 600 local, state, and …
Cybersecurity still seen as a tech issue, not a business imperative
Cybersecurity is now front and center on organizations’ boardroom agendas, but most chief information security officers (CISOs) have yet to earn a seat at the table. According …
Hacking hospitals: Cyber attacks can result in physical harm
Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) published a study that demonstrates security flaws to be pervasive within the healthcare industry. The research found that adversaries …
DHS releases guidelines for CISA-sanctioned cybersecurity information sharing
The US Department of Homeland Security has published guidelines on how the private sector and federal entities can share cyber threat indicators (CTIs) with the US federal …
What’s the real cost of a security breach?
The majority of business decision makers admit that their organisation will suffer an information security breach and that the cost of recovery could start from around $1 …
Is the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 effective?
While many are decrying the newly signed Cybersecurity Act of 2015 for its privacy issues, DB Networks is taking the Act to task for an equally troublesome reason: It is based …
Five key cybersecurity trends for 2016
The overwhelming shift to mobile and cloud computing among both businesses and consumers will see some surprising additions to the risk landscape in 2016. ISACA shares five …
Vision for a new generation of experimental cybersecurity research
How do cybersecurity experts discover how to properly defend a system or build a network that’s secure? As in other domains of science, this process involves hypothesis, …
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 …
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