Cyber Threats Facing Financial Institutions Amid COVID-19
By Pablo Castillo, Cyber Threat Research Analyst, Constella Intelligence COVID-19 has accelerated security research into the cybersecurity implications of our society where large swaths of the population are fully remote. […]
Credit Cards, Cash and Compliance, Oh My! Eliminating Audit Fatigue in The Financial Services Sector
By Steve Horvath, Vice President, Strategy & Cloud, Telos Corporation When we think of our finances, we think of them as a responsibility – a commitment to ensure payments are […]
A Third Of Americans Trust Facebook With Personal Data More Than Government, Study Shows
The level of trust in Facebook versus the government also varies between demographic groups. By Kathryn Robinson, Privacy Expert, Privacy Tiger In today’s ever-changing data-driven society, it’s a challenge for […]
SonicWall released patch for actively exploited SMA 100 zero-day
SonicWall has released a security patch to address the zero-day flaw actively exploited in attacks against the SMA 100 series appliances. SonicWall this week released firmware updates (version 10.2.0.5-29sv) to […]
More Internal Security Needed, Less Budget – 10 Tips to Help
By Jody Paterson – Founder and Executive Chairman. ERP Maestro As if internal risks of fraud and data breaches were not high enough, enter in a year of new work […]
The 2021 Perspective – Challenges and Milestones for The VPN Industry
By Sebastian Schaub, CEO and Co-Founder, hide.me VPN The worldwide VPN market is conservatively valued at over $20 Billion and is predicted to nearly double in value over the next […]
Tesla sues former employee for allegedly stealing sensitive docs
Tesla has accused a former employee, a software engineer, of downloading about 26,000 sensitive files and transferring them on his personal Dropbox On Saturday, Tesla sued the former employee Alex […]
Businesses Should See Security as An Enabler of Digital Transformation, Not A Hindrance
A distributed workforce has renewed the importance of security for all aspects of organizations’ technology estates By Matt Gyde, CEO, Security Division at NTT Ltd. The pandemic has put a […]
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)
It is not about compliance, or is it? By Carter Schoenberg, CISSP & CMMC Registered Practitioner Vice President – Cybersecurity SoundWay Consulting, Inc. As of the date of this publication, […]
Cryptocurrency Ransomware Is on The Rise During COVID-19 – Here’s What Businesses of All Sizes Need to Know About Dealing with Attacks
By Marc Grens, Co-Founder & President at DigitalMint Crypto-related ransomware attacks are on the rise, and the pandemic has only hastened its propagation. For example, from 2018 to 2020, ransomware […]
How We Securely Share Data in A Remote World
By Duncan Greatwood, CEO, Xage Security Cybersecurity solutions are often thought of as a single-issue solution: protecting companies from dangerous or costly hacks, or detecting hacks after they’ve already happened, […]
Joint Investigation Reveals Evidence of Malicious Android COVID Contact Tracing Apps
By Peter Ferguson, Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist at EclecticIQ’s Fusion Center The devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused public-health and economic issues to countries around the globe, and the […]
Financial Data Security Risks in The Hands of Online Shops or Intermediary Applications
By Ben Hartwig, Web Operations Executive, InfoTracer Online retail fraud continues to rise year on year. Fraudsters are becoming more sophisticated and although we can put more and more consumer […]
Why the Education Sector Must Address Security in The Rush to Digitise
By Jacob Chacko Regional Business Head – Middle East, Saudi & South Africa (MESA) at HPE Aruba There has never been a greater need to connect students, classrooms, and buildings. […]
Nations—Not Individuals—Are After Your IP
By Ryan Benner, Anexinet A recent Wall Street Journal article titled, Russian Hackers Have Targeted 200 Groups Tied to U.S. Election, has Microsoft stating that “Russian government hackers have targeted […]
Patched Minimizes Risk – But Opens the Door for Compatibility Problems
How to Remediate Federal Systems with Zerologon Vulnerability By Egon Rinderer, Global Vice President of Technology & Federal CTO, Tanium In September, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released […]
Readiness and Risk Exposure in the New Normal
By Cyber Defense Magazine News Staff A recent report conducted by Osterman Research and sponsored by TrapX Security[1] provides valuable insights on the problems facing cybersecurity professionals in protecting their […]
How to Keep Your Children Safe in Remote Learning Situations
By Nevin Markwart, Chief Information Security Officer at FutureVault For Cyber Security Magazine As parents, we have conflicting feelings on remote learning. One on hand, we want our children to […]
The One-Stop Spear Phishing Defense Guide You Will Ever Need
By Jeff Penner, Senior Manager at ActiveCo Technology Management. Is your business ready to combat spear phishing attacks? It’s a question that gives many seasoned CTOs bad jitters. The truth […]
Automated Pentesting – Ready to Replace Humans?
Is Automation the end of human pentesting? By Alex Haynes, CISO, CDL In the past few years, automation in many spheres of Cybersecurity has increased dramatically, but pentesting has remained […]
Has Your Data Been Leaked to the Dark Web?
By Randy Reiter CEO of Don’t Be Breached The part of the internet not indexed by search engines is referred to as the Dark Web. The Dark Web is however […]
Ransomware Is Evolving
These attacks thrive on overprovisioned administrator access. Understanding where data resides, and adopting zero standing privilege is key. By Jeff Warren, General Manager, Products, Stealthbits Technologies, Inc. When most people […]
Why Cybersecurity Awareness is More Important During COVID-19
Do you know the need for cybersecurity training for your organization? If not, learn more about the importance! By Susan Alexandra, Contributing Writer Cyber-attacks, malicious activity, and phishing scams have […]
In the Midst of the Pandemic, Cybersecurity Professionals Show an Uptick in Job, Salary Satisfaction Despite High Stress Levels
By Samantha Humphries, security strategist, Exabeam Interested in a career in cybersecurity — or are you wondering what your peers in the space are thinking? Exabeam’s 2020 Cybersecurity Professionals Salary, […]
Reducing ‘Cyber-security Engineer Burnout’
A first-hand experience of the workload challenges security engineers face, and how their employers can help to address them By Tim Bloomer, a Sales Engineer at AlgoSec I’m sure we’ve […]
Measuring Cybersecurity Systems Durability
By Joseph Kirkpatrick, President, Kirkpatrick Price Developing sound cybersecurity systems is a complex, multi-faceted task– but a crucial one. Not only do these systems help businesses meet their regulatory requirements, […]
How Can CISOs Work with CMOs to Secure Social Media?
By Otavio Freire, CTO & Co-Founder, SafeGuard Cyber Recent reports indicate that over half of the global population now uses social media – up 10.5% on last year’s 3.5 billion […]
Unstructured Data, Unsecured Data
The Data You Overlook Needs Protection Too By Deborah Kish, EVP, Marketing & Research, Fasoo, Inc. Sensitive unstructured data is everywhere, it means different things to different businesses and comes […]
Protecting a Mobile Workforce with Hybrid DNS Security
By Ashraf Sheet, Regional Director, Middle East & Africa at Infoblox The future of the workplace is undoubtedly a remote workforce, accessing the corporate network via mobile devices and the […]