Cybersecurity readiness: Widening gulf between perception and reality
Attackers have become more proficient at taking advantage of gaps in security to evade detection and conceal malicious activity, according to Cisco. Defenders, namely, …
Has the time come to give up penetration testing?
By carrying out “white hat’ attacks to identify potential entry points in the externally facing parts of an organization’s IT network, such as its firewalls, …
Guide on actionable information for security incident response
ENISA publishes a good practice guide on Actionable Information for Security Incident Response, aiming to provide a picture of the challenges national CERTs and other security …
How to prepare if you’re selected for an OCR audit
The forthcoming Office of Civil Rights (OCR) audits for HIPAA compliance have seen some delays this fall – but that doesn’t mean covered organizations can delay …
What is the value of professional certification?
Recognition for and therefore the value of professional certification is rising within the information security domain. In an increasing number of markets across Europe, …
Five key security, identity and access management trends
CA Technologies announced five key trends for security and identity and access management (IAM) that will impact organizations and security professionals in 2015 as they …
Cost of breach vs. cost of deployment
In security terms, 2014 read like a who’s who of data breaches. Huge, global companies like Target, eBay and Coca-Cola have succumbed to data loss. Public services like …
Don’t look back in anger
At the end of the 2014, as at the end of many years before it, our mailboxes were filled with various vendors’ security predictions for 2015. We saw them also in …
Identity management trends in 2015
A new year is always an excellent time to look ahead. So, there’s not much of a better time than now to look at some of the identity management trends expected for the …
Do we need regular IT security fire drills?
IT security “fire drills’, supported by executive management and the risk committee should be conducted regularly in organizations, in order to understand the …
The ubiquitous social media “buy’ button and the journey of authentication
Earlier this year two of the world’s largest social media sites, Facebook and Twitter, announced the addition of “buy’ buttons to their offerings, giving …
The coming shift in security
Vendors continue to trumpet new platforms as the best way to improve enterprise-level security. Flashy spinning visualizations, added scalability and the meaningless …