Cyber Security

According to the FBI, businesses in the United States lost $2.7 billion last year through data breaches. On a global scale, those losses were as much as $600 billion, and while al... More

As cybersecurity practitioners, we all have a mental list of fundamental technological controls that everyone should be using to secure their environments. But when it comes to the... More

Fighting cybercrime requires visibility into much more than just the Dark Web. Here's where to look and a glimpse of what you'll find.... More

No matter where your organization may be on its digital transformation journey, beware the dangers lurking along the way. Fellow travelers down this road have been waylaid time and... More

Nagra’s content protection of HD Plus is to be extended to include Smart TVs. The Swiss security firm has extended its agreement with HD Plus GmbH, the SES subsidiary that runs t... More

With your business facing so many competing interests from the cost of securing new finance, your competitors, and a fast-changing market, you might think that cybersecurity is som... More

Delivering malware, a cybercrime practice that spans every skill level and adversarial motivation, can take various forms. But all too often, malicious payloads are served up via m... More

Every once in a while someone will ask me what is the best security advice. The long answer is “it depends on your threat model,” which is just a fancy way of saying what’s g... More

If you were to ask CIOs and CSOs which positions they have most difficulty filling, they wouldn’t respond with network engineer, system administrator, or developer. Instead, it i... More

IBM Security issued new research highlighting that the travel industry and its customers are increasingly the targets of cyberattacks as criminals seek to monetize highly valuable ... More

One of the most overwhelming problems in cybersecurity is a severe labor shortage. There simply aren’t enough people who are qualified to do cybersecurity jobs to fill all the op... More

It is more than just meeting the needs of the private and public sector. A qualified, certified cybersecurity professional has significantly improved earning and employment potenti... More

When striving for success, you must have a definite purpose — something that stands above everything else in terms of getting results. As it relates to information security and, ... More

The numerous high-profile data breaches that took place in 2018 illustrate that no organization, irrespective of size, scale or scope, is immune from cyberattacks. Last year witnes... More

Proactivity is now seen by security teams as a viable solution to the challenge of defending enterprises against the ever-growing threat landscape. This might conjure up images of ... More

Cybersecurity professionals face difficult challenges and obstacles just keeping up with the latest threats. Those challenges are especially great if security pros at organizations... More

When customers trust your organization, you are expected to protect their customer data. That’s why organizations need to learn how to collect, properly utilize and eventually el... More

More staff (if you can find it) does not equal better security. Reducing risk also requires automation of manual processes, especially patch management.... More

Despite advancements in biometric technologies and the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA), passwords are still today’s front-line defense when it comes to cybersecurity and... More

At the rate our world is moving toward techno-vation, we’ll be seeing some 27 billion connected devices on the global mainframe by 2021. All of these devices will be operating in... More