Ransomware attacks against small towns require collective defense
There is a war hitting small-town America. Hackers are not only on our shores, but they’re in our water districts, in our regional hospitals, and in our 911 emergency systems. …
Expert Analysis
How long before quantum computers break encryption?
The verdict is in: quantum computing poses an existential threat to asymmetric cryptography algorithms like RSA and ECC that underpin practically all current Internet …
How to start achieving visibility in the cloud
As a security executive, you have a curious gig. On one hand, you’re responsible for securing your organization across multiple systems, networks, clouds, and geographies. On …
Should the National Security Council restore the cybersecurity coordinator role?
Former national security advisor John Bolton’s elimination of the cybersecurity coordinator role in May 2018 came as a surprise to many in the cybersecurity industry, …
Tackling biometric breaches, the decentralized dilemma
A recent discovery by vpnMentor revealed a worst case scenario for biometrics: a large cache of biometric data being exposed to the rest of the world. In this case web-based …
Rise of RDP as a target vector
Recent reports of targeted attacks using RDP as an initial entry vector have certainly caused significant headlines in lieu of the impact they have caused. In the midst of …
Could audio warnings augment your ability to fight off cyber attacks?
The security of your environment shouldn’t depend on whether you’re looking in the right place at the right time. While active visual means such as dashboards, emails, …
Passwordless authentication is here now, and it is vastly superior to using a password
Mirko Zorz, Help Net Security’s Editor in Chief, recently published an article about the state of passwordless authentication that predicted a long journey before this …
How data breaches forced Amazon to update S3 bucket security
Amazon launched its Simple Storage Service (better known as S3) back in 2006 as a platform for storing just about any type of data under the sun. Since then, S3 buckets have …
How SMBs can bring their security testing on par with larger enterprises
What are the challenges of securing small and medium-sized enterprises vs. larger ones? And how can automated, continuous security testing help shrink the gap? When studying …
SLAs: What your cybersecurity vendor isn’t telling you
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) have been used in the IT world for many years as a contractual mechanism for holding service providers accountable and extracting defined …
Five ways to manage authorization in the cloud
The public cloud is being rapidly incorporated by organizations, allowing them to store larger amounts of data and applications with higher uptime and reduced costs, while at …