Women in cybersecurity: Cisco, IBM, Symantec help pave the way
Women make up roughly half the world’s population, they hold around 50 percent of jobs in the U.S. workforce and fill 25 percent of IT jobs, yet they account for only 10 percent of the positions in cybersecurity. Females in the field are uniting to help move the needle on those numbers towards 50 percent…
Trump nominee suggests IRS cybersecurity and staffing boosts
Cybersecurity and staffing upgrades at the Internal Revenue Service appear to be in store, assuming Steven Mnuchin is confirmed as Treasury Secretary in the new Trump Administration. Mnuchin, a former CIO and executive vice president for Goldman Sachs, told senators in a five-hour confirmation hearing on Thursday that he is “very concerned about the lack…
Encrypted email service ProtonMail is now accessible over Tor
The creators of encrypted email service ProtonMail have set up a server that’s only accessible over the Tor anonymity network as a way to fight possible censorship attempts in some countries. ProtonMail was created by computer engineers who met while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The service provides end-to-end encrypted email…
Survey Says 66% Of Consumers Won’t Work With Breached Companies
Customers are willing to take risks online yet hold businesses responsible for protecting their data. A global survey by Gemalto finds that despite being aware of online security risks, customers continue to take chances but expect protection from businesses that handle their data – despite only 29% believing that companies will protect their data seriously…
BrandPost: Are the Adobe Flash Vulnerabilities Leaving You Feeling Scared?
Based on an analysis in 2015 of over 100 exploit kits (EKs) and known vulnerabilities, Adobe Flash was the unfortunate winner of the most frequently exploited product. Now that it’s 2017, companies are joking that maybe it’s time to give Flash the old heave ho’ to retirement. While Adobe has worked tirelessly to make Flash more…
Protecting Your Staff in Co-Working Spaces
Four walls, a sea of cubicles and the rest of the traditional office accoutrements are no longer standard in the working world. The number of innovative co-working spaces continues to rise around the world, and this doesn’t even include coffee shops, libraries and numerous other public places that offer free Wi-Fi. That means that your…
Is Your Organization Prepared When the Extortionists Come Calling?
In 2016, Trend Micro partnered with ISMG to conduct a survey of financial, healthcare, and government organizations to better understand the challenges they are facing with ransomware. Some of the results surprised us while others were somewhat expected based on what we’ve saw throughout 2016. We all know ransomware has been a major pain for…
John McAfee’s 3 major cybersecurity predictions for 2017
John McAfee, CEO at MGT Capital Investments, Inc. (MGTI) provides CSO with his predictions for 2017. 1. “IoT denial of service attacks on major Internet carriers, like the one carried out on Dyn earlier year will become commonplace, and the severity will be orders of magnitude greater than what we have seen. The 2016 IoT DDoS…
User Behavior Analytics: Perfect for Analysis but Not Security
How many times have you read or heard about user behavior analytics (UBA)? Today this term applies to security managers and auditors but not to security administrators. User behavior analytics enable IT teams to track and quickly analyze user behavior anomalies and monitor watch-lists, trends and many other factors relative to users. UBA is a…
IDG Contributor Network: Defensive regression in cybersecurity
What is defensive regression? There has been a lot of talk lately about defensive regression in cybersecurity. But what exactly is defensive regression? It’s not the regression that Sigmund Freud talks about, although there are plenty of folks that don’t act like adults in our industry – long live office ball pits :-). Perhaps the simplest…