Tag Archives: cyber security

By the end of the coming year, the cost of cyber attacks on the global economy is predicted to top $10.5 trillion. This staggering amount reflects the growing need for cyber securi... More

While boards and CISOs have vastly different roles and priorities, collaboration between the two is fundamental for making key prioritization, strategic and budgetary decisions, an... More

While we defend our businesses like islands, information sharing is giving cyber attackers the upper hand. ... More

The thousands of workers performing their duties remotely over the past few weeks are facing a barrage of cybersecurity risks. Enterprise security teams have been scrambling to ado... More

Looking for a job in cyber security? Good thinking. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job market for information security analysts is growing by 32 percent from... 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

As an example of how sophisticated hackers are becoming, new incidents may be indicative of a larger move away from mass-issued ransomware or phishing attacks, toward more targeted... More

By Zuly Gonzalez, Co-Founder and CEO, Light Point Security - HBO. Sony. Netflix. What do they all have in common? Every one of them has lost content in the past few years, with ... More

Finding and retaining workers in IT security continues to be a challenge for organizations, though IT professionals report a modestly increased shortfall of skilled security worker... More

The technology holds a lot of promise for security, but there’s still a long way to go before it sees serious enterprise adoption. ... More

Digital infrastructure firm Tata Communications has launched a new cybersecurity lab at SASTRA Deemed University in Tamil Nadu in Dubai, with the goal of partnering with other univ... More

Risk mitigation firm Convergent Risks, will host a Cyber Security Forum lunch at IBC 2018, a one-day, invitation-only event that brings together CTOs, CIOs, CISOs and security prof... More

The 4G wireless telecommunications protocol is vulnerable to the same types of remote exploitation as its 3G predecessor, new research emphasizes. As with the flaw-ridden protocol ... More

Active defense is not about attacking adversaries. It is about detecting and derailing attacks early, gathering the intelligence needed to understand the attack, and stopping and p... More

The US needs to fundamentally rethink its strategies for stopping cyber attacks and should develop a tailored approach to deterring each of its key adversaries, according to a new ... More

You would think that the safeguarding of customer passwords and other credentials would be a top priority for IT professionals, but as we all know from repeated reports of data bre... More

There are an estimated 350,000 open cybersecurity positions in the U.S., according to a 2017 report from Cybersecurity Ventures. And it looks as though the talent shortage won’t ... More

Reusing passwords across multiple websites is now a common behavior for most people inundated with dozens of accounts to their favorite online properties. But the practice is fueli... More

Criminals are collaborating on a global scale to target unpatched vulnerabilities and user negligence while resource-constrained IT teams struggle to keep up and manage increasingl... More

Sridhar Muppidi, Co-CTO of IBM Security: "We think collaboration, just like the bad guys are collaborating with each other with sharing attack pipes and data. Similarly, the good g... More