While companies spend huge sums of money every year to maintain a security perimeter designed to fend off cyber and insider threats, daily reports of new data breaches are raising doubts about the effectiveness of these investments. One of the biggest challenges in cyber security today is how to manage the volume,...
Enterprises continue to find it a challenge to address vulnerabilities and susceptibilities to risk for the business on a wider scale. Although most enterprises employ a variety of cyber security tools and policies, many lack the visibility and cadence (or rhythm) to program and/or leverage a holistic organizational...
Information security weaknesses that a watchdog agency found at the FDA are similar to those found at many healthcare organizations, some security experts say. But the FDA should be held to an even higher standard than the organizations that implement FDA-regulated drugs and devices, they argue.
Britain's privacy watchdog agency has slammed the telecommunications company TalkTalk with a record fine of £400,000 ($511,000) for multiple information security failings that allowed a hacker to bypass access controls and exfiltrate customer data "with ease."
Britain has launched a new National Cyber Security Center to help U.K. organizations better respond to cybersecurity incidents. But Brexit is imperiling intelligence-sharing arrangements that help the U.K. battle attacks and track cybercriminals.
Yahoo built a custom software program that scanned incoming emails for a specific piece of content to comply with a classified U.S. government directive, Reuters reports. If true, did the U.S. government overstep its legal boundaries?
To better mitigate the breach risks tied to the growing use of mobile devices, organizations need to adopt enterprise digital rights management as a way to improve data security, says Gartner's John Girard.
The core question of the 2016 Identity & Access Management Study survey is "What is Your Enterprise Doing to Manage and
Secure Privileged Accounts?"
Forty-seven percent of survey respondents rate their organizations at above average or superior when it comes to provisioning, managing and attesting to identities...
As security threats are more sophisticated today than in the past, modern data centers are becoming increasingly vulnerable. Micro-segmentation is your answer to protect your data center against these sophisticated threats. Read this trend brief to see how it builds security into the DNA of the data center for a...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump laying out his cybersecurity agenda leads the latest version of the ISMG Security Report. Also, federal leaders address threats posed to the U.S. electoral system.
Markus Jakobsson, Chief Scientist at Agari, has released a new book focused on socially-engineered schemes. What are the key takeaways, and how can security leaders improve their abilities to fight back against the schemers?
The internet of things is being compromised by malware-wielding attackers exploiting default credentials baked into devices. What will it take for manufacturers to ship devices that are secure by default?
Enterprises should employ new modeling, simulation and intelligence tools to provide insight into potential exploitable attack vectors before an incident occurs, Michelle Cobb, vice president at Skybox Security, says in a video interview.
Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker suggests that regulatory agencies should implement cyber threat information sharing programs with the businesses they regulate, not only to enhance their IT security, but to build a collaborative environment between the two, often adversarial sides.
Bad news: A developer has released the source code for Mirai malware, which is designed to automatically find and hack internet of things devices, turning them into DDoS cannons. The malware has been tied to recent record-smashing DDoS attacks.
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