New infosec products of the week: January 11, 2019
FireEye updates Email Security with new threat detection and evasion defenses In addition to the executive impersonation protection capabilities, FireEye Email Security – …
There’s a sizable gap between confidence in security programs and their effectiveness
A Syncsort survey of over 300 respondents found that while 85 percent of respondents are either very or somewhat confident in their organization’s security program, 41 percent …
Evaluating €1bn in cybersecurity research funding
Crossword Cybersecurity looked at nearly 1,200 current and past research projects from academic institutions in the United Kingdom, United States, Europe, Australia, and …
Cisco fixes serious DoS flaws in its email security appliances
Cisco has plugged a heap of security holes in many of its products, including two vulnerabilities (one critical) that open its email security appliances to denial of service …
Understanding how data becomes intelligence is central for any successful security program
Threat intelligence is one of the hottest terms in information security at the moment. But, as with so many buzzwords, it is often overused and misused. All the buzz has …
GDPR: Five tips for organizations to remain compliant
For the majority of UK businesses, a huge amount of time and resource was invested to become GDPR compliant in time for the May 2018 deadline. The cost of implementing GDPR …
Email security predictions: What we can expect in 2019
2018 shed a lot of light on how expensive successful phishing attacks can be, with the FBI reporting in July well over $12B in financial losses due to business email …
Small manufacturers play important role in supply chain security
Though the manufacturing sector does not attract the sheer volume of total cyberattacks as other areas of the economy, research has shown that coordinated cyber espionage …
Deception for proactive defense
This article is fourth in a five-part series being developed by Dr. Edward Amoroso in conjunction with the deception technology team from Attivo Networks. The article provides …
G Suite warns admins about domain data exfiltration attempts
Google has rolled out new options for the G Suite alert center, to help administrators battle phishing emails more efficiently and spot data export operations initiated by …
January 2019 Patch Tuesday: 49 security patches, 7 critical
Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday of 2019 includes 49 security patches, seven of which are listed as Critical. Of all the plugged security holes, none are reported as …
Battling attacks from global criminal networks in the financial sector
Every now and then, banks and financial institutions (and their customers) are targeted by opportunistic hackers, but they are much more worried about those that are smarter, …
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