Access is a two-edged sword. Organizations need to open systems to employees, partners and customers. But they also must keep out threat actors. Douglas Mow of Courion talks about finding a balance.
Data loss prevention strategies are shifting. Organizations are now turning to end-users to help protect critical data. Stephane Charbonneau of Titus discusses how to engage users to improve security.
Advanced threats and mobile security were the buzzwords of the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. What new insights did thought-leaders share, and how can they reshape our security posture?
The OCC's DDoS risk warnings to community banks may indicate more regulatory scrutiny is on the way. Banks should prepare for more oversight of their cyber-attack reporting and threat mitigation practices.
Misconfigured firewalls aren't necessarily a result of technical issues. Often, there are business or staff issues that can be easily addressed to improve security. Jerry Skurla of FireMon explains how.
Former federal banking examiner Amy McHugh says banks can learn a lot from recent legal decisions and settlements in account takeover cases, including which authentication and online-banking security investments they should make.
State-sponsored attacks are up significantly, so organizations need to rely on new, stronger controls to ward off advanced threats. John Gordineer of Dell SonicWALL discusses the role of next-generation firewalls.
Over the past decade, many organizations shifted their security focus from regulatory compliance to metrics business intelligence. What's the latest shift? Vivek Shivananda of Rsam explains.
Who are the threat actors, what are their techniques and when are they apt to attack? This is the type of threat intelligence all organizations need, says Scott Kaine of Cyveillance.
When it comes to breach prevention, many organizations are improving their own security posture, but neglecting that of their strategic partners.
It's a wide gap that far too few organizations even recognize, says Tom Kellermann, vice president of cybersecurity at Trend Micro.
How are banking institutions responding to today's fraud threats, and what strides have they made to mitigate their risks? The 2013 Faces of Fraud Survey aims to answer those questions and more.
The participation of Microsoft and other software vendors in an operation to take down 1,400 Citadel botnets illustrates why more public-private collaboration is needed to tackle emerging cybercrimes, operation participants say.
National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander declined to say that the agency would stop using contractors in top secret IT positions to prevent a leak such as the one that exposed NSA programs to collect metadata on American citizens.
If you want to be in the know about cybersecurity, consider getting the latest version of NIST's Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, which provides 1,500 definitions.
Another organized cyber-attack and subsequent cash-out scheme illustrates increasing risks to the U.S. payments chain. One fraud expert says this trend "is of grave concern" for banking institutions and their accountholders.
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