Combating the virtual and physical threats banks face
The banking sector has always been at the center of criminal attention. Today, banks must contend with near-constant cyber attacks from organized criminal gangs, as well as …
Techno-nationalism isn’t going to solve our cyber vulnerability problem
Against the backdrop of intensifying cyber conflicts and the rapidly evolving threat landscape, a new wave of techno-nationalism is being trumpeted from almost every corner of …
December 2020 Patch Tuesday forecast: Always consider the risk
The final Patch Tuesday of the year is upon us and what a year it has been. Forcing many changes this year, the pandemic has impacted the way we conduct both security and IT …
Raising defenses against ransomware in healthcare
More than half a decade has passed since ransomware-wielding attackers started focusing on healthcare providers. Despite some initial misgivings about targeting life-saving …
The challenges of keeping a strong cloud security posture
It’s simple – you can’t secure what you can’t see or don’t know about. In this interview, Badri Raghunathan, Director of Product Management for Container and Serverless …
Cloud native security: A maturing and expanding arena
At the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020, I had the opportunity to take part in a keynote panel with a number of other cloud native security practitioners. We …
Foiling RaaS attacks via active threat hunting
In this Help Net Security podcast, Jon DiMaggio, Chief Security Strategist at Analyst1, talks about the characteristic of attacks launched by Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) …
Retail CISOs and the areas they must focus on
In this interview, Matt Cooke, cybersecurity strategist, EMEA at Proofpoint, discusses the cybersecurity challenges for retail organizations and the main areas CISOs need to …
How to mitigate risks in an interconnected intelligent enterprise
Cloud migrations and SaaS adoption have skyrocketed during the pandemic. In fact, a recent survey shows that the pandemic caused 40% of businesses to accelerate their move to …
Accept your IT security limits and call in the experts
For many employees, the COVID-19 pandemic brought about something they dreamed of for years: the possibility to eschew long commutes, business attire and (finally!) work from …
Making history: The pandemic, disaster recovery and data protection
It was an accomplishment for the ages: within just a couple of days, IT departments hurriedly provided millions of newly homebound employees online access to the data and apps …
How IoT insecurity impacts global organizations
As the Internet of Things becomes more and more part of our lives, the security of these devices is imperative, especially because attackers have wasted no time and are …