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How secure are banks and financial services firms?

Many senior bank executives are confident about their cybersecurity strategy, yet a lack of comprehensive, practical testing is leaving gaps in their defense. Accenture …

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Why businesses should care about identity theft

Identity theft is a type of fraud that’s directed squarely against individuals, but to believe that businesses don’t suffer any consequences or costs associated …

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Understanding Europe’s insider threats

35% of employees across the UK, France, Germany and Italy admit to have been involved in a security breach, presenting regional CISOs with a significant challenge when it …

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Why cyber hygiene is vital for the security of your organization

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, Rob Brownsword, VP of Product Marketing at Nehemiah Security, talks about how the most useful thing that you can do as the …

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Fighting sophisticated phishing threats during the digital revolution

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, Damien Hugoo, Director of Product Marketing at Easy Solutions, talks about what organizations can do in order to take a …

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Stethoscope spurs employees to implement better security practices

Every now and then, Netflix open sources some of the security tools created by its coders. The latest example of this is Stethoscope, a web application that collects …

Privacy Shield
Privacy expectations and the unfortunate reality

A recent survey that polled 5,710 Americans on private browsing (aka “Privacy Mode”, aka “Incognito Mode”) revealed that 46 percent of them have used …

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Firefox 51 starts flagging HTTP login pages as insecure

Mozilla has released Firefox 51 on Tuesday, and this latest stable version of the popular browser comes with many security fixes and improvements. The list of security …

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Mitigating internal risk: Three steps to educate employees

IT security is usually focused on how to prevent outsiders with malicious intent from causing harm to your IT systems and data. While this is a valid concern, people within …

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Consumers worry more about cybercrime than physical crime

Consumers are more worried about cybercrime than physical world crime, according to Sophos. The survey polled 1,250 consumers in the US, UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. …

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Cybersecurity gamification: A shortcut to learning

Cybersecurity awareness trainings are usually a boring affair, so imagine my colleagues’ surprise when I exited the room in which I participated in a demonstration of …

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Top 4 global security threats businesses will face in 2017

The Information Security Forum (ISF) has announced their outlook for the top four global security threats that businesses will face in 2017. “The pace and scale of …

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