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Building a program for GDPR compliance: Can you answer these key questions?
The clock is ticking and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will start to be enforced in May. Now is a critical time for organizations to plan, budget and make any …
Q3 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report released
The newly released Q3 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report from Imperva Incapsula features insights on attacks and mitigation. These are some of the key findings: Bitcoin …
2018: The year of the NIS Directive
In 2017 the GDPR buzz reached peak intensity, even in the cybersecurity community. It practically drowned out any mentions of another important upcoming EU law: The Network …
Despite cybersecurity concerns, many consumers don’t protect themselves
Despite awareness of the need for cybersecurity, many consumers are not taking proactive steps to keep their personal information protected from identity theft. With the …
Smart cars need smart and secure IT/OT Infrastructures
IT can fail. It often does. We restart IT, and life goes on. Hackers can also compromise these same IT systems creating disruptions and causing theft of credentials. All …
Healthcare organizations and the cloud: Benefits, risks, and security best practices
Healthcare organizations are moving their business-critical applications and workloads to the cloud, and while there are many benefits (lower costs, added flexibility and …
Cybersecurity in 2018: Three predictions and one hope
Effective cybersecurity means keeping a close eye on the threats you currently face, and an even closer eye on the threats to come. As you consider your security strategy and …
Security pros waste 10 hours a week due to inefficient systems
Process and software inefficiencies play a major role in slowing down an organization’s ability to detect and respond to cyber threats, according to LogRhythm. Over one-third …
Why ransomware? Let’s ask the bad guys
I am involved with ransomware because it is ‘fast, easy, and safe”. This was the feedback we got when we asked the bad guys about the motivations for being involved with this …
Five mental shifts we must make to achieve security beyond perimeters
Data centers aren’t exactly going extinct, but given the massive shift to public clouds, you need to make some significant adjustments if your mindset doesn’t already include …
Why cryptography is much harder than software engineers think
The recent ROCA vulnerability (CVE-2017-15361) raises some important issues about the design of secure cryptographic software. The vulnerability is not in this case an obvious …
Exploits and fileless malware drive record new malware surge
McAfee released its McAfee Labs Threat Report: December 2017, examining the growth and trends of new malware, ransomware, and other threats in Q3 2017. McAfee Labs saw malware …