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Should the National Security Council restore the cybersecurity coordinator role?

Former national security advisor John Bolton’s elimination of the cybersecurity coordinator role in May 2018 came as a surprise to many in the cybersecurity industry, …

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How can we thwart email-based social engineering attacks?

More than 99 percent of cyberattacks rely on human interaction to work, Proofpoint recently shared. More often than not, the principal attack method is phishing emails. When …

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Tackling biometric breaches, the decentralized dilemma

A recent discovery by vpnMentor revealed a worst case scenario for biometrics: a large cache of biometric data being exposed to the rest of the world. In this case web-based …

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Cybersecurity automation? Yes, wherever possible

There was a time when companies were hesitant about their IT and security teams using automation to discharge some of their duties. “I think much of that was due to the …

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Could audio warnings augment your ability to fight off cyber attacks?

The security of your environment shouldn’t depend on whether you’re looking in the right place at the right time. While active visual means such as dashboards, emails, …

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Passwordless authentication is here ​now​, and it is vastly superior to using a password

Mirko Zorz, Help Net Security’s Editor in Chief, recently published ​an article about the state of passwordless authentication​ that predicted a long journey before this …

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SLAs: What your cybersecurity vendor isn’t telling you

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) have been used in the IT world for many years as a contractual mechanism for holding service providers accountable and extracting defined …

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Security is slowly becoming essential to doing business

A veteran of the information security industry, Greg Jensen has spent the last six years at Oracle as the Senior Director of Oracle’s Cloud Security solutions. He’s also …

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Targeted threat intelligence and what your organization might be missing

In this Help Net Security podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2019, Adam Darrah (Director of Intelligence), Mike Kirschner (Chief Operating Officer) and Christian Lees (Chief …

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CISO do’s and don’ts: Lessons learned

Keeping a business safe from cyber threats while allowing it to thrive is every CISO’s goal. The task is not easy: a CISO has to keep many balls in the air while being …

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How to navigate critical data security and privacy policy challenges

By 2020, there will be 40x more bytes of data than there are stars in the universe as we know it. And with data growth comes more security and privacy obstacles for …

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IIoT security challenges: Dealing with cutting edge technologies

Dr. Jesus Molina is the Director of Business Development at Waterfall Security Solutions, and in this interview with Help Net Security he talks about the security issues …

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