A "bottom-up" approach to IoT security is essential, starting with the hardware as the "root of trust" and then addressing the operating systems and applications, says Wind River's Thilak Ramanna, who calls for the development of standards to ensure security is baked into devices.
A search warrant executed earlier this year gave authorities the power to force occupants of a Los Angeles-area house to unlock devices with their fingerprints, casting doubt on biometric defenses.
Virtually every industry is prone to cyberattacks, online fraud and identity theft. For years' banks have secured online transactions for commercial accounts and private banking customers via multifactor authentication. Now through organizations like the NCSA and HIMSS, multifactor authentication may finally become...
In January, banks and other financial services companies based in New York may have to comply with tough new cybersecurity requirements. But some critics contend that the state's regulatory proposal is far too prescriptive, making it challenging for banking institutions, especially smaller ones, to comply.
IoT devices running the authentication protocol OpenSSH are being compromised and used as proxies in attacks that aim to take over accounts at popular web services, according to new research from Akamai.
Although experts see widespread, practical applications of artificial intelligence as at least a decade off, it's something that's on the mind of President Obama. The commander in chief shares his thoughts on the intersection of artificial intelligence, medical viruses and cybersecurity.
With comprehensive network modeling extending into virtual networks, network security engineers can gain the needed visibility to unify security and compliance processes across their hybrid hardware and virtual environments.
Many healthcare organizations embark on cloud migrations to achieve scalability, cost-efficiency, and higher application performance. But migrating applications to the cloud can be a complex process that requires careful planning and deliberation. Challenges can include unanticipated interoperability issues,...
Evolving criminal and unscrupulous internal threats to healthcare data networks continue to plant seeds of fear and uncertainty in the minds of healthcare IT professionals. Those fears are wellfounded; a recent Information Week survey found that 91 percent of small healthcare practices in North America say they have...
IoT botnets, the term for armies of hacked internet-connected devices, aren't going away. And an anecdote from the field shows the gravity of the problem and why it's unlikely to be resolved any time soon.
A malware-wielding gang has been targeting financial firms' SWIFT software to inject fraudulent money-moving messages since at least January in "discreet campaigns" not tied to the Bangladesh Bank hack, Symantec warns.
This case study delves into how El Paso Area Teachers Federal Credit Union was able to use strong authentication to simultaneously:
Secure access to all applications
Eliminate the cost and frustration of password resets
Improve employee productivity and satisfaction
Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) is a common platform for communications, both internally and externally, within an
enterprise organization. The components included in any UC&C solution - voice, IM, video, etc. -
will vary from organization to organization. UC&C brings all those communication...
In the face of evolving cyberthreats, organizations of all sizes need a more resilient cybersecurity architecture.
In an interview about achieving resilient cybersecurity, Kaczmarek discusses:
How security leaders can prioritize their defenses again the many threats they face;
The benefits of using a hybrid...
You know you are adopting Office 365. Whether you are just wading in with a partial Exchange Online deployment, jumping right into the deep end with a full-cloud, everything Office 365 adoption or something in-between - the decision is made and you are moving forward as fast as you can. Before you take off running...
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