Are your passwords among the 100,000 most breached ones?
Year after year, the list of most often used passwords changes but a little: the latest one, compiled by infosec researcher Troy Hunt and published by the UK National Cyber …
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The foundation: Quantifying risk with focused security measurement
When you hear “quantify risk,” you might think it’s the buzz-term du jour. You might be right. Risk quantification is a hot topic right now. It seems everyone who touches …
Building a modern data registry: Go beyond data classification
For organizations, understanding what data they store and analyze is gaining increasing urgency due to new privacy regulations, from the Global Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) …
One hundred percent of endpoint security tools eventually fail
Endpoint security tools and agents fail, reliably and predictably, according to the 2019 Global Endpoint Security Trends Report from Absolute. From there, every additional …
Attention CISOs: Five steps to get the security funding you need
Going in front of the board to request or increase your security funding is no easy task – especially when the organization is facing budget restraints or, worse, the …
Employee cybersecurity essentials part 2: Lost devices and unsafe connections
Security is only as strong as its weakest link, and as we have seen, that includes your employees. Faulting workers for behavior they’ve become accustomed to in their private …
TRITON attackers detected at another critical infrastructure facility
The attackers who were first spotted wielding the custom TRITON framework have targeted another critical infrastructure facility, FireEye researchers have revealed on …
Regulating the IoT: Impact and new considerations for cybersecurity and new government regulations
In 2019 we have reached a new turning point in the adoption of IoT – more markets and industries are migrating to a cloud-based infrastructure, and as the IoT continues to …
Closed loop automation combats IoT security threats in the 5G age
The 5G race is on as carriers prepare for the onset of the next wireless generation in their own ways. While some have pseudo-definitions of 5G, others like Verizon and …
Is your organization getting physical security right?
For most organizations (and especially for tech companies), the physical security of data centers and headquarters is of the utmost importance. As Tim Roberts, a senior …
