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New Global Initiative Aims at Securing Smart Cities
May 28, 2015 Added by:Eduard Kovacs
Security researchers, companies and organizations have joined forces in a new non-profit global initiative whose goal is to secure smart cities.
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Threat Intelligence Sharing Valued, But Many Not Doing it: Survey
May 27, 2015 Added by:Brian Prince
Enterprises may largely agree that threat intelligence is important, but few are doing any actual sharing themselves, according to a new survey.
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Sign of the Times: Verizon Breach Report Tracks New Category
May 27, 2015 Added by:Peter Zavlaris
This year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (VDBIR) added a new category to its VERIS (Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing) to track attacks with “secondary” motives.
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Why Outsourcing Remote Access Management Isn't The Answer For SMBs
May 27, 2015 Added by:Patrick Oliver Graf
So, should network administrators consider tapping into MSPs for network security in our current environment? The core issue is a common one in network security – convenience vs. security.
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Threat Intelligence: Knowledge is Power
May 26, 2015 Added by:Lisa Huff
Organizations have made massive investment in a variety of security solutions over the years. It is important to understand what investments that have made in security technologies in order to understand the success and possible challenges that they face.
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SSL and TLS Update
May 26, 2015 Added by:PCI Guru
The answer to SSL and TLS vulnerabilities are to remediate as soon as possible. If you are unable to remediate, then you need to mitigate the risk until you can remediate.
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Cloud Security Monitoring … Revisited (aka It Is Not 2012 Anymore!)
May 26, 2015 Added by:Anton Chuvakin
My next project, now that I am done with security analytics for now, is to revisit our cloud security monitoring work.
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Microsoft and the Software Lifecycle
May 25, 2015 Added by:Tripwire Inc
For some reason, Europe’s ‘The Final Countdown’ was playing in my head as I sat and pondered this write-up. I suppose that’s fitting given that we are about to cross the 60-day mark until Windows Server 2003 goes End-of-Life.
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Should MAD Make its Way Into the National Cyber-Security Strategy?
May 25, 2015 Added by:Brent Huston
Arguably, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) has kept us safe from nuclear holocaust for more than half a century. Although we have been on the brink of nuclear war more than once and the Doomsday clock currently has us at three minutes ‘til midnight, nobody ever seems ready to actually push the button – and there have been some shaky fingers indeed on those buttons!
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Will Your Contractors Take Down Your Business?
May 25, 2015 Added by:Rebecca Herold
Do you know how well your vendors, business associates, contracted third parties (who I will collectively call “contractors”) are protecting the information with which you’ve entrusted them to perform some sort of business activity? You need to know.
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Microsoft Patching: Don’t Forget to Read the Fine Print
May 21, 2015 Added by:Tripwire Inc
During my career, I have built and managed hundreds of production-level client and server systems, and nothing can be more worrisome than when it comes time to apply patches and upgrades to software. Why? Because things can, and often times, do go wrong during patch and upgrade cycles.
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The Top 10 Highest Paying Jobs in Information Security – Part 1
May 13, 2015 Added by:Tripwire Inc
Given the evolving threat landscape, it is no surprise that the field of information security is booming. A report issued by Burning Glass Technologies reveals that job postings across the industry have grown 74 percent between 2007 and 2013—twice the rate of all other IT jobs.
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Organizations Must Consider Privacy Harms
May 13, 2015 Added by:Rebecca Herold
Addressing privacy requires privacy harms consideration in addition to identifying security and privacy risks.
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New PCI DSS Changes are Around the Corner
May 12, 2015 Added by:Don Brooks
The latest payment card industry data security standard, a set of requirements designed to help businesses better secure their customers’ payment card information, took effect January 1, 2015, however some of the changes become mandatory at the end of next month.
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C-Level Executives and the Need for Increased Cybersecurity Literacy
May 11, 2015 Added by:Tripwire Inc
Now more than ever, it’s evident cybersecurity risk oversight at the board level is essential to keep any business or organization afloat – and off the headlines.
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Falling Off the End of the Cyber Kill Chain
May 11, 2015 Added by:Anup Ghosh
In our zeal to declare prevention dead, we should not lose sight that $1 spent on prevention is worth $1M in post-breach incident response.
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- Why the GDPR is Important to Your Organization
- NIST Offering Much Needed Guidance for Neglected SMBs
- What Is Hypervisor-based Security and Why Is It Important in Stopping Zero-Day Exploits?
- SAP Cyber Threat Intelligence Report – August 2017
- Evasive Malware on the Rise: Time to Stop Stealth Attacks in their Tracks
- Enterprises: Can You Handle 3,680 Phishing Emails per Week?
- Is Your Data at Risk Due to Third-Party Cloud Applications?
- How to Choose the Right Data Protection Strategy
- Understanding Hacker Mindset Key for Website Security, Business Resilience
- Why We Must Work Together to Support Our Cyber Start-ups