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Average Cost of Healthcare Breach? $3.62 Million, Regardless of Compliance

Clearly, adherence to HIPAA, NIST and other regulators in healthcare is paramount, but that does not mean that your organization isn't vulnerable to cybercrime hacking. When the average breach is worth $3.62 million with $380 per patient record compromised (as per Ponemon's 2017 Cost of a Data Breach Report), the...

2017 Faces of Fraud Survey Report: Mobile Exploits Come of Age

Defending against tomorrow's mobile attacks is a moving target; but new technologies and strategies, including behavioral biometrics and machine-learning-based analytics, are allowing financial institutions to reduce their fraud losses while enhancing their customer experience. Based on the latest results of ISMG's...

Separating Fact from Fiction: Hacking and Exploits on the Dark Web

Dark web vendors offer a wide range of technological crime. From distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to pre-recorded phone calls, there is a myriad of knowledge and listings for hacking & exploits. In addition to materials for sale, the dark web is also home to a variety of forums designed to build...

Cyber Fraud for Dummies: How-to Guides for Sale on Dark Web

The dark web has become a very effective resource for purchasing sinister educational materials. How-to guides are for sale on major dark web markets such as Hansa and AlphaBay and offer step-by-step instructions for drug trafficking, hacking, social engineering and many other cyber crimes. Fraud guides, a subset...

It's About Risk: 2017 Strategic Cybersecurity Investments Study

Sixty-five percent of security leaders consider their organizations' security postures to be above average or superior, as compared to peers in their sectors. Yet, only 29 percent say that they are very confident in the effectiveness of their security controls, and nearly half say that they have gaps in detecting...

A Modern Security Assessment Model that Breaks from Tradition

Security professionals think in terms of risks and threats to ensure that the right security measures are deployed in the right places and to a proper degree. Security teams need an evaluation process to help them determine whether an object is under-protected or over-protected, but traditional security assessment...

Assess, Manage and Respond to Security Risks in Heathcare

Despite being one of the most heavily regulated industries, Healthcare companies still struggle to assess their risk at more than a surface level. A good assessment has to include people, policies, procedures, controls and technologies. The task is daunting but increasingly critical. Download this case study...

Reduce Your Risk to Ransomware

Organizations around the world are being targeted by ransomware attacks like never before... But rather than suffer a data destruction or business disruption incident, many are paying the ransom. That's no solution. It's costly and comes with no guarantees of the safety of your data or systems. Perhaps worst of all,...

The Rise of Cyber-Overconfidence in C-Suites

A RedSeal-72Point study of 200 CEOs about their perceptions of cybersecurity posture discovered that many are dangerously unrealistic about how vulnerable they are. In fact, more than 80 percent displayed "cyber naiveté," allowing their organizations to be exposed to cyber-attack. This study reveals the...

Implementing Practical Security Assessments; A How-to Guide

Organizations are scrambling to identify security weaknesses before their adversaries do. Having a consistent, systematic, and scalable methodology to properly assess your environment is essential. To begin you need a solid understanding of the organization, its components, what it relies on, and what could cause it...

2017 State of IBM i Security Study; Don't Leave Your Data Vulnerable

Another day, another data breach in the news. Ransomware at a hospital, the latest IRS breach, a phishing scam at Snapchat . . . you tune out the details. For every breach that makes headlines, dozens of other organizations have had data stolen or corrupted by hackers...or even their own users. Cyberthreats become...

The Top 5 Myths About Hybrid Cloud Security

Hybrid cloud security is a hot topic, especially with the massive growth of public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft® Azure�� and Google Cloud. With the emergence of the hybrid cloud, where workloads are deployed across physical, virtual, and cloud, security professionals are constantly being...

Best Practices for the Alignment of Hybrid Cloud Security Initiatives

Hybrid clouds represent the new normal for data centers, which, in turn, warrants a new security model that needs to be grounded in an understanding about what is different about cloud infrastructure. IT and security professionals are well aware of the need to retool for this new normal. Given strong adoption of...

Find Your Way Out of the PCI DSS Compliance Maze

Any organization that deals with credit card information must secure payment card data in accordance with PCI standards. Merchants and service providers are required to validate compliance by assessing their environment against 12 major control categories applicable to applications and data in the data center and the...

Cerber Reigns as King of Ransomware; Where did Locky Go?

In 2016, there were two contenders for king of ransomware: Locky and Cerber. So far in 2017, we've seen a massive shift in the battle between these two families, with Locky basically dropping out entirely and Cerber expanding its market share by a significant amount. New families such as Spora are emerging as well,...