Cyber Security

 

Cybersecurity: This is How Firms are Spending Their Budget This Year (ZDNet)

Spending on security hardware, software, and services in Europe could reach $27.3bn this year, driven by new security threats, a lack of skilled staff, and GDPR and other complianc... More

Women Now Hold One-Quarter of Cybersecurity Jobs (Dark Reading)

Women now actually make up 24% of the cybersecurity workforce – a seismic shift from the perennially static 11% number over the past six or more years. While one-fourth still rep... More

6 Emerging Cyber Threats to Look Out for in 2019 (ReadWrite)

AI-Generated phishing emails. Human-generated phishing attacks involve digital messages to trick people into clicking on a malicious link that installs malware or exposes sensitive... More

Lack of Skills the Main Challenge in Recruiting Information Security Talent (IA)

Cybersecurity is a demanding profession and the required skillset is diverse, with a mix of technical, leadership, business and communication skills necessary to effectively protec... More

Akamai CEO on the Company’s Push Toward Cybersecurity (Forbes)

Tom Leighton: "We have always believed that the best way to deliver content and protect assets on the Internet is through what we call an edge platform or edge network. The traditi... More

Why Modern Security Begins With People First (Avanade Insights)

Identity turns out to be one of the leading causes of data breaches, accounting for nearly 65% of all incidents in 2018. It also ends up being one of the most powerful tools for pr... More

Think Inside the Box to Bridge the Cybersecurity Skills Gap (Security Intelligence)

Cybercriminals are continuously evolving, scheming and ramping up attacks with complex distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) campaigns, malware scams and a plethora of techniques fo... More

The Habit of Strategic Planning for Your Cybersecurity Future (Illumio Blog)

Today in cybersecurity, organizations are still overly focused on securing the perimeter – on keeping intruders out of a network. While perimeter defense is a key part of the tot... More

Five Tech Trends Driving Cybersecurity in 2019 (Forbes)

Bob Bruns, Avanade: When industry analyst Gartner listed its top 10 technology trends for 2019, one of the primary themes that stood out was cybersecurity. Things continue to move ... More

To Compete With Netflix, Online Piracy is Upping its Game (Wired UK)

While on-demand streaming services need to have their own original content to attract audiences, the fragmentation of content across competing services can mean someone who loves G... More

The Role of Hackathons in Driving Cybersecurity Forward (Security Boulevard)

Hackathons bring tech-savvy people together in a collaborative setting to solve problems, advance a technology or produce another type of positive outcome. One of the issues hackat... More

The Business of Organized Cybercrime: Rising Intergang Collaboration in 2018 (Security Intelligence)

Banking Trojans and the gangs that operate them continue to plague banks, individuals and organizations with fraudulent transactions facilitated by malware and social engineering s... More

The State of the CISO Role: How Will It Change In 2019? (Forbes)

With the cybersecurity space facing growing risks as hackers become more sophisticated, the typical C-suite clearly requires a dedicated security executive — hence the chief info... More

Survey: Cybersecurity Pros Believe They Should Have the Right to ‘Hack Back’ (CBR)

At a recent IT event several discussions took place around the topic of cyberattacks from nation state actors, a survey conducted found that 87% of security professionals believe t... More

Microsoft Azure Sentinel Uses Data Analytics to Improve Security (eWeek)

Built to streamline the collection of IT security information across business organizations, including attacks, vulnerabilities and other issues, Microsoft Azure Sentinel is design... More

Majority of Organizations Still Report a Lack of Cybersecurity Budget (DXC Technology Blog)

Despite years of widespread data breaches and increased regulatory demands, 75 percent of respondents to a recent survey do not believe that they have an adequate information secur... More

IBM’s Mary O’Brien on Global Security Challenges (GovInfoSecurity)

Video: IBM Security GM Mary O'Brien talks about her first year in this role, addressing the skills crisis, application security, the cloud and how to defend against cyberattacks in... More

Skills Gap Affects Cybersecurity (Security Boulevard)

According to research, 74 percent of organizations have been impacted by the cybersecurity skills talent shortage. That impact ranges from an increased workload for current staff t... More

How to Build a Cyber-Resilient Business (Raconteur)

There is a well-known saying in cybersecurity: it’s not a matter of if you are attacked, but when. And a growing number of big firms are starting to discover how true this is.... More

Report: Threat Intelligence Market to Hit $13B by 2025 (Innovation Enterprise)

A new report forecasts steady growth in the threat intelligence market between 2018–25, as industry players look to stem increasing cyber-threats... More

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