Expert analysis

Employee cybersecurity essentials part 1: Passwords and phishing
Your company may have state-of-the-art monitoring and the latest anti-malware and anti-virus programs, but that doesn’t mean you’re not at risk for a breach, or that – as an …

You may trust your users, but can you trust their files?
In this Help Net Security podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2019, Aviv Grafi, CEO at Votiro, talks about their Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) technology for …

Breaking the cybersecurity stalemate by investing in people
No surprise, it happened again. In 2018, the financial toll cyber breaches took on organizations hit $3.86 million, a 6.4 percent rise from 2017. Before last year’s close, …

How the Google and Facebook outages could impact application security
With major outages impacting Gmail, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram recently, consumers are right to be concerned over the security of their private data. While details of …

A network is only as strong as its weakest shard
Blockchain, a nascent technology, has enterprises globally enamored with the promise it holds to fundamentally turn everything from how we interact, transact, store, and …

The art of securing ERP applications: Protecting your critical business processes
In this Help Net Security podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2019, Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO at Onapsis talks about the challenges of securing and monitoring ERP …

Four key security tips when using any collaboration technology
With database breaches and ransomware attacks making daily news, security is now a top priority for companies, and collaboration solutions are no exception. In the current age …

Tax season scaries: How to keep your data safe from insider threats
With April 15 quickly approaching, companies across the country are rushing to get their taxes filed. This often requires third party specialists who are well-versed in …

Latest trends in automated threat intelligence-driven network security
Since the earliest days of the Internet both network threats and network defenses have been evolving. In this Help Net Security podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2019, Todd …

Meet the new generation of white hats
The past two years have seen an explosion in the number of software vulnerabilities being published, jumping from 6,447 in 2016 to 14,714 in 2017. Seeing as 2018 beat out the …

Thinking of threat intelligence as a contributing member of your security team
Threat intelligence is widely considered as a significant asset for organizations, but implementation of this intelligence within security operations can often be cumbersome. …

The quantum sea change: Navigating the impacts for cryptography
Professionals in cybersecurity and cryptography (and even non-IT executives) are hearing about the coming threat from quantum computing. It’s reaching the mainstream business …