Will Robo-Helpers Help Themselves to Your Data?
Over the coming years, organizations will experience growing disruption as threats from the digital world have an impact on the physical. Invasive technologies will be adopted across both industrial and consumer markets, creating an increasingly turbulent and unpredictable security...
Securing the Hybrid Workforce Begins with Three Crucial Steps
The global shift to a remote workforce has redefined the way organizations structure their business models. As executives reestablish work policies to accommodate remote employees well beyond the initially anticipated duration, a new era of work will emerge: the...
A New Strategy for DDoS Protection: Log Analysis on Steroids
Anyone whose business depends on online traffic knows how critical it is to protect your business against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. And with cyber attackers more persistent than ever – Q1 2020 DDoS attacks surged by 80%...
COVID-19 Aside, Data Protection Regulations March Ahead: What To Consider
COVID-19 may be complicating organizations’ cybersecurity efforts as they shift more of their operations online, but that doesn’t lessen the pressure to comply with government regulations that are placing increased scrutiny on data privacy.
Despite the pandemic, companies are obligated...
SecurityWeek Extends ICS Cyber Security Conference Call for Presentations to August 31, 2020
The official Call for Presentations (speakers) for SecurityWeek’s 2020 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cyber Security Conference, being held October 19 – 22, 2020 in SecurityWeek’s Virtual Conference Center, has been extended to August 31st.
As the premier ICS/SCADA cyber security conference,...
SecurityWeek to Host Cloud Security Summit Virtual Event on August 13, 2020
Enterprise Security Professional to Discuss Latest Cloud Security Trends and Strategies Via Fully Immersive Virtual Event Experience
SecurityWeek will host its 2020 Cloud Security Summit virtual event on Thursday, August 13, 2020.
Through a fully immersive virtual environment, attendees will be able...
Avoiding Fuelling the Cyber-Crime Economy
We all know that the prices of key commodities such as oil, gold, steel and wheat don’t just impact individual business sectors as they fluctuate according to supply and demand: they also power international trading markets and underpin the...
Expect Behavioral Analytics to Trigger a Consumer Backlash
In the coming years, organizations’ insatiable desire to understand consumers through behavioral analytics will result in an invasive deployment of cameras, sensors and applications in public and private places. A consumer and regulatory backlash against this intrusive practice will...
Holding public cloud security to account
At one of the last cyber-security events I attended before the Covid-19 enforced lockdowns, I was talking with an IT director about how his organization secures its public cloud deployments. He told me: “We have over 500 separate AWS...
No Silver Bullet for Addressing Cybersecurity Challenges During Pandemic
Infosec professionals have always had their work cut out for them, as the threat landscape continuously challenges existing security measures to adapt, improve and cope with the unexpected. As the coronavirus pandemic forced organizations to migrate their entire workforce...
Could the Twitter Social Engineering Hack Happen to You?
Learning from the experiences of others should be a key job requirement for all cybersecurity, AppSec, DevSecOps, CISO, CRMO and SecSDLC professionals. The recent attack against Twitter where high-profile accounts were compromised to promote a Bitcoin scam is one...
Augmented Reality Will Compromise the Privacy and Safety of Attack Victims
In the coming years, new technologies will further invade every element of daily life with sensors, cameras and other devices embedded in homes, offices, factories and public spaces. A constant stream of data will flow between the digital and...
Ending the Cloud Security Blame Game
Like many things in life, network security is a continuous cycle. Just when you’ve completed the security model for your organization’s current network environment, the network will evolve and change – which will in turn demand changes to the...
Edge Computing Set to Push Security to the Brink
In the coming years, the requirement for real-time data processing and analysis will drive organizations to adopt edge computing in order to reduce latency and increase connectivity between devices – but adopters will inadvertently bring about a renaissance of...
Make It So: Accelerating the Enterprise with Intent-Based Network Security
Sometimes, it seems that IT and security teams can’t win. They are judged on how quickly they can deploy their organization’s latest application or digital transformation initiative, but they’re also expected to safeguard those critical applications and data in...
Russian Gets 7 Years in Prison for Linkedin, Dropbox & Formspring Hacks
A Russian man received a seven-year prison sentence for having hacked into computers belonging to LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring. On September 30, Honorable William H. Alsup, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California, sentenced Yevgeniy Alexandrovich Nikulin,...
Detecting Deep Fakes with a Heartbeat
Researchers can detect deep fakes because they don’t convincingly mimic human blood circulation in the face:
In particular, video of a person’s face contains subtle shifts in color that result from pulses in blood circulation. You might imagine that these...
Anthem to Pay Nearly $40M Settlement Over 2015 Cyberattack
Health insurer Anthem has agreed to another multimillion-dollar settlement over a cyberattack on its technology that exposed the personal information of nearly 79 million people.
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#BeCyberSmart – why friends don’t let friends get scammed
Friends don't let friends get scammed. Because cybercrime hurts us all.
Why a Security Maturity Model Can Transform How You Use Analytics
With cyberattacks and breaches on the rise, security should be a major concern for all companies. In particular, enabling the development of an analytics maturity model is a useful addition to your traditional security information and event management (SIEM)-based...
