employees

Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

The London, United Kingdom-based company leverages machine learning to prevent attacks that rely on email and social engineering. It describes its solution as “human layer security.” The company builds behavioral models for all employees and uses them to automatically detect security threats. Furthermore, by notifying employees of these issues, it aims to help improve individual…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

he threat intelligence landscape has vastly changed over the years. While the term was originally used to refer to malware Indicators of Compromise (IOC) – lists of known malware signatures and the servers those malware communicate with, a method to identify infected devices within corporate networks – as time went by vendors have broadly expanded…

Application Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

One of your employees needs access to part of your customer database so he can fulfill an urgent reporting request. You’re busy and this employee is trustworthy, so you grant him administrative status. Simple solution, right? You’ll revoke it later when you’re done with the other 600 critical things you’re working on right now. Right?…

Software Security

Issued by: CSO

Latest Microsoft Windows security update options explained

The need to manage patching on home machines that have no Group Policy, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) control means that you may be looking for alternatives. Employees’ personal machines might run Windows 10 Home version, which has limited ability to control updates. With corporate-owned machines you have more…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

Keep Employees Secure, Wherever They Are

As workers grow more dispersed, organizations need to focus on three areas to maintain security. Nearly 80% of professionals work remotely at least one day a week, and 1.55 billion others are expected to work outside the boundaries of the corporate office by 2020, according to Frost & Sullivan research. This shift to a mobile…

Software Security

Issued by: Blog Malwarebytes

How do I get my employees to stop clicking on everything?

If you’ve been given responsibility for network security in a non-technical area of the business, there’s one eternal question that has been bedeviling admins for decades. Shelves of words have been spilled on the subject, to limited result. Everyone with cybersecurity responsibilities has their own crop of horror stories where an intransigent user has clicked…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: CSO

7 tips for better security awareness training sessions

At their worst, security awareness training sessions are boring wastes of time, both for employees and the IT people responsible for them. At their best, however, they are interactive, discussion-driven, and genuinely helpful opportunities to raise security issues and lay the groundwork for better habits. How do you steer your own training sessions closer to…