Rail Cybersecurity Is a Complex Environment
Rail remains one of the most popular modes of transportation. In a typical year, US freight railroads move around 1.6 billion tons across nearly 140,000 miles of track. US citizens traveled more than 12.5 billion kilometers by rail in 2021. Thousands of railways — from national and regional networks to intra-city light rails — have…
Application Security Testing vs. API Security Testing
As organizations continue to embrace digital transformation, it’s essential to ensure that applications and APIs are protected. Application security testing, or AST, and API security testing are important components of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy. AST is the process of analyzing application code and configurations to identify potential vulnerabilities. API security testing ensures that APIs are…
BrandPost: Cloud security is incomplete without hybrid and multicloud coverage
Digital transformation is sweeping across the public and private sectors. This has pushed organizations to increasingly turn to hybrid and multicloud environments as a way to manage a sprawling digital infrastructure and growing mountains of data. But while cloud technology promises to increase collaboration among distributed workforces and quickly scale digital workloads, it also creates…
60% of IT leaders are not confident about their secure cloud access
60% of IT and security leaders are not confident in their organization’s ability to ensure secure cloud access, even as adoption continues to grow across a diverse range of cloud environments, according to research from the Ponemon Institute. The Global Study on Zero Trust Security for the Cloud surveyed nearly 1,500 IT decision makers and…
7 Ways to Bring AI to Cybersecurity
New ransomware variants and deceptive techniques such as living off the land and store now, decrypt later are sidestepping heuristic analysis and signature-based malware detection. Behavior-based tools can compare network activity against an established norm and flag when they detect unusual and suspicious actions and patterns. Powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, such tools…
Tony Jarvis on Shifting Security Gears as We Move to the Cloud
The pandemic-propelled shift to work-from-home and bring-your-own-devices accelerated the already expanding move to the cloud. IDC predicts that global cloud spending will grow from $703 billion in 2021 to $1.3 trillion in 2025. Statista reports that the percentage of corporate data stored on the cloud rose from 30% in 2015 to 48% at the beginning…
Fraud detection and prevention market to hit $100 billion by 2027
The fraud detection and prevention (FDP) market is expected to surpass $100 billion by 2027, as reported in a research study by Global Market Insights. The growing adoption of mobile phones and digital banking applications is proliferating the market growth. The growing instances of cyberthreats and money laundering across sectors are driving the need for…
RPA: How to Securely Start and Scale in the Automation-First Era
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is one of the key technologies fueling digital transformation. Ranked by industry experts as one of the fastest-growing enterprise software categories, RPA is helping businesses and their employees achieve the efficiency, accuracy and speed needed to compete and thrive. By approaching RPA automation projects and cybersecurity hand in hand, organizations can…
The VC View: Digital Transformation
The first thing to ask before we talk about digital transformation, is what the heck does “digital transformation” even mean? The reality is that there isn’t a standard definition. Every company is going to have a slightly different path. Many people have different opinions on what it stands for. But the fact that the phrase…
Power Equipment: A New Cybersecurity Frontier
Power management may not be at the top of anyone’s priority list when they think about cybersecurity. But to quote the famous words of Bob Dylan: “The times, they are a-changin’.” As Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled devices have evolved and many business functions have shifted to remote operations, vulnerabilities are emerging in places that may…
