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The key challenges to timely incident response

Security professionals are inundated with security incidents, averaging 78 investigations per organization in the last year, with 28 percent of those incidents involving …

A look at emergent threats and their influence

Analyzing Dell data sources and the 2014 threat landscape, their new report found a surge in point-of-sale (POS) malware, increased malware traffic within encrypted (https) …

Cloud security: CA conducts advanced research

CA Labs is conducting research and development for innovative solutions to address security challenges in multi-cloud environments. Horizon 2020 awarded a contract to the …

Are privileged users the most dangerous insider?

92 percent of healthcare IT decision makers reported that their organizations are either somewhat or more vulnerable to insider threats, and 49 percent felt very or extremely …

Phishers increasingly target banks and ISP accounts

Phishing against banks and ISPs rose markedly compared to other sectors in the third quarter of 2014, according to the APWG. The number of brands being attacked remains high, …

Preventing and detecting insider threats

SANS surveyed 772 IT security professionals regarding their experiences preventing and detecting insider threats within their organizations. Although 74 percent are concerned …

Worldwide IT spending to decline in 2015

Worldwide IT spending is set to shrink to $3.66 trillion in 2015, a 1.3 percent decrease from 2014, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “We forecast …

Cybercrime gets easier, attribution gets harder

Threat actors are gaining capabilities through the adoption of cutting-edge tools instead of technical expertise, according to Websense. Redirect chains, code recycling and a …

Securing high-risk, third-party relationships

High-profile attacks reveal that malicious hackers target third-party vendors and supply chain partners as a backdoor into their primary target, according to CyberArk …

Are you prepared for dealing with a breach?

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, released the results of a new global breach readiness survey that covered thirty countries and compared those global results with a survey …

IoT devices facilitate robbery, stalking and cybercrime

The foundation of the Internet of Things (IoT) – the devices themselves plus their associated mobile applications and cloud services – are often not designed with …

What happens to data after a breach?

Bitglass undertook an experiment geared towards understanding what happens to sensitive data once it has been stolen. In the experiment, stolen data traveled the globe, …

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