The 4 Top Barriers To Effective Incident Response
Responding to cyberattacks is straightforward in some ways, difficult in others. Here are four ways that the process can get tripped up. Cyberattacks are getting worse, growing in frequency and impact. This probably isn’t a surprising statement for anyone reading Dark Reading. Most organizations understand this and are taking measures to prevent and detect threats….
What CISOs Need To Know Before Adopting Biometrics
Biometric techniques offer a solution to the password problem, but getting started can be tough. Here are a few things you need to know. Businesses have long sought a better way to balance end-user security and usability, and it’s clear the password-only model needs to change. Faced with employees who are unwilling to remember more…
Machine Learning For Cybersecurity Not Cybercrime
The cybersecurity industry has always been under constant strain from cybercriminals and malware. With increasing integration of hardware, software and services being built into every aspect of our lives, the task of keeping data secure has become even more difficult. The arsenal of tools that cybercriminals now have at their disposal has raised concerns for…
The Pick of 2017 Cybersecurity Conferences
Cybersecurity conferences provide excellent opportunities to network with peers, learn about the latest trends in security, engage with vendors and see firsthand the latest developments in technology. Here is a roundup of some of the most interesting 2017 cybersecurity conferences.
After a terrible year for cybersecurity, will 2017 be any better?
From a cybersecurity perspective, 2016 was a very devastating year for companies, schools, government agencies, organizations and even presidential campaigns. What we’ve learned from a record year for breaches, hacks, phishing, malware, and ransomware is what we’ve known all along: cyber criminals are clever and they are not bound by any rules or real strategy….
Tech support scam page triggers denial-of-service attack on Macs
Tech support scammers have been using various themes to push fake alerts to scare users into calling for assistance. These fall into the ‘browlock’ category if they are via the browser and into the screen lockers category if they are actual malware that runs on the system. Recently, there has been a trend for scammers to cause…
Wi-Fi risks: Delivering a secure hotspot
The fact that Wi-Fi stands for Wireless Fidelity hints at how long Wi-Fi has been around, but it was only in 1999 that the Wi-Fi Alliance formed as a trade association to hold the Wi-Fi trademark, under which most products are sold. Today, Wi-Fi is on the top of the list of must-haves for businesses…
Cyberrisk Through A Business Lens
As with any other aspect of operating a business, effectively managing cyberrisk is predicated on making well-informed decisions and then executing reliably within the context of those decisions. With that in mind, boards and senior executives must ensure that their organizations accomplish both. For the reasons described below, today many organizations are unable to do…
Data breaches through wearables put target squarely on IoT in 2017
Forrester predicts that more than 500,000 internet of things (IoT) devices will suffer a compromise in 2017, dwarfing Heartbleed. Drop the mic — enough said. With the sheer velocity of how the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks spread through common household items such as DVR players, makes this sector scary from a security standpoint.
Migrating Security to the Cloud: A Model for Total Cost of Ownership
Sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same. Businesses are migrating from traditional on-premises maintenance of their hardware and software to software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud at record levels. But any evaluation of such a move must include more than just the obvious costs of hardware and software. When migrating security to the…