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How to protect your organization from insider threats, the #1 risk for data loss

Issued by: Help Net Security

Is your security approach exposing your organization to risk? The answer is “yes” if your security strategy focuses exclusively on external threats. If the breaches of the last 24 months have taught us anything – it’s that insider threats are a cause for equal if not greater concern. In a recent survey, IT professionals were…

Network Security

Security should be a top priority when transitioning to an SD-WAN solution

Issued by: Help Net Security

Barracuda Networks today released key findings from a new global research report, “Security, Connectivity, and Control: The Challenges and Opportunities of SD-WAN.” The study surveyed IT leaders and networking and security professionals to learn how widespread SD-WAN deployments are, how organizations are deploying them, and what benefits and challenges they’re seeing. The report includes data…

Malware & Threats

Your backup data sets can become a treasure trove for advanced threat detection

Issued by: Help Net Security

Despite ever increasing investments in security technologies, data breaches and cyber incidents are increasing at a relentless rate, and the problem is projected to keep getting worse. Industry research shows that attacks from ransomware, data compromise, malicious email and credential theft more than doubled to 160,000 incidents per year, with unreported incidents likely bringing the…

Vulnerabilities

Connected car security is improving, researchers say

Issued by: Help Net Security

The automotive industry has apparently stepped up their game when it comes to improving connected car security. According to the latest IOActive report, which was compiled from the results of the company’s extensive research in the field in 2016 and 2017, there has been a significant improvement in front-end cybersecurity, i.e. vehicles’ hardware systems. Risk…

Malware & Threats

Manipulation tactics that you fall for in phishing attacks

Issued by: Help Net Security

It’s 6 p.m. on a Friday. Just as you finish packing up for the day, an email from your boss pops up on your phone asking why an urgent payment didn’t go out earlier in the week. He’s tied up in a business dinner, so he needs you to wire payment to a specific vendor…

Application Security

Who owns application security?

Issued by: Help Net Security

In July 2018, F5 released its first annual Application Protection Report. As part of the report, F5 commissioned Ponemon to survey of 3,135 IT security practitioners across the world. The survey collected information about respondent’s application security processes. A key question asked for respondents to name their organization’s primary owner of application risk. In theory,…

Malware & Threats

Intensifying DDoS attacks: Choosing your defensive strategy

Issued by: Help Net Security

“Over the last six months, our State of the Internet Report found that companies suffered 41 DDoS attacks on average over the last six months,” he points out. The rise and rise of DDoS attacks As Arbor Networks CTO Darren Anstee recently pointed out, DDoS attacks have become a much more significant business risk to…

Network Security

Top six security and risk management trends

Issued by: Help Net Security

Business leaders are becoming increasingly conscious of the impact cybersecurity can have on business outcomes. Gartner said that security leaders should harness this increased support and take advantage of six emerging trends, to improve their organization’s resilience while elevating their own standing. Trend No. 1: Senior business executives are becoming aware that cybersecurity has a…

Vulnerabilities

Will blockchain power the next generation of data security?

Issued by: Help Net Security

Cryptomania is dominating conversations from Silicon Valley to Wall Street. But ‘cryptocurrency’ is only one implementation of the underlying technology innovation that has the ability to transform the way future technology products are designed and built. Of course, that technology is blockchain, the decentralized digital ledger that makes Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies possible. First, we…

Mobile Security

Keys to Crafting a Winning Mobile Security: Customers Weigh In

Issued by: Symantec Blog

Experience is a valuable teacher, especially when you’re able to learn lessons from others who have taken similar journeys. That’s why we recently polled some of our most successful mobile security customers. They had valuable stories to share about the process they underwent evaluating and implementing mobile security solutions. We wanted to know the backstory:…