security awareness

New research, by SecureData and Vanson Bourne, investigated the impact government security initiatives had on end-user organizations in 2014, with nearly half (47%) reporting …

There is little doubt that it’s difficult to develop secure software. First, you need to be aware of the need for security, accepting it as an important element of …

Ghosts and zombies aren’t the only things coming back from the dead this Halloween. Below is a list of the top security threats that organisations should be most aware …

Organisational leadership is failing to respond to the escalating risk of ungoverned file sharing practices among their employees, and employees routinely breach IT policies …

In the latest quarter, Solutionary SERT performed a broad analysis of the threat landscape, including information on the Shellshock and Aftershock vulnerabilities present in …

A transatlantic survey of 2000 employees has found that only a fifth of UK workers think their data is more secure at work than at than at home, whereas the majority of US …

Last month I discussed how we can fix software security issues only by making sure we use libraries and frameworks that don’t allow classes of vulnerability to exist. Of …

Are information security awareness programs a good thing or a complete waste of time? The debate around this question has been going on for a while and both sides have had …

The swathes of high-profile security breaches in recent months have only served to highlight the need to educate the public on the inadequacies of the security systems …

The FBI and DHS have issued a warning to businesses about the increase in security incidents involving malicious insiders (current or former employees, contractors, or other …

Still officially unconfirmed, a Home Depot hack looks increasingly likely to have happened. As Nicole Perlroth noted, the source of stolen card information can be discovered …

Security awareness has long been a point of frustration for information security professionals. While many organizations conduct awareness training of some kind, they have …