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Week in review: Risk assessment, fileless attacks, and the most hackable holiday gifts
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Review: EU GDPR Documentation Toolkit The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) …

Poor security habits are the ideal recipe for a breach
A Preempt survey of more than 200 employees (management level or above) from enterprise companies of 1000 or more people, found that businesses are left exposed by employees …

Safeguard mobile devices: VPNs and personal firewalls are vital
As mobile devices have permeated every aspect of private and professional lives, users have become increasingly dependent on connecting to public hotspots – especially when …

A third of US businesses do not feel prepared for GDPR deadline
New research by Censuswide captures the preparedness levels of organizations in Europe and the United States for the May 2018 GDPR compliance deadline, as well as their …

Half of organizations do not audit SSH entitlements
Cybercriminals, such as malicious insiders, use SSH keys to access systems from remote locations, evade security tools and escalate privileges, according to a study conducted …

High-Tech Bridge unveils free application discovery and inventory service
High-Tech Bridge announce the public launch of ImmuniWeb Discovery. The free service is a part of the ImmuniWeb Application Security Testing (AST) Platform. ImmuniWeb …

Free security tool protects Internet users through DNS
IBM Security, Packet Clearing House (PCH) and The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) launched a free service designed to give consumers and businesses added privacy and security …

For strong unified communications security, behavioral analytics is critical
If there’s one thing security professionals should understand and acknowledge – whether they’re part of an organization’s multi-person IT security team or the CISO guiding …

The long tail of phishing attacks
Targeted phishing has become the single most effective attack type in the world today. Phishing attacks have been the root cause of the majority of the large-scale data …

Measuring fraud trends across various industries
Businesses across industries are experiencing more sophisticated fraud attempts across multiple customer-not-present channels, according to IDology. Shifting fraud tactics and …

Sharp rise in fileless attacks evading endpoint security
A new Ponemon Institute survey of 665 IT and security leaders finds that over-reliance on traditional endpoint security is leaving organizations exposed to significant risk. …

Are your enterprise leaders digitally literate?
Only 53 percent of surveyed business technology professionals believe their organization’s leadership is digitally literate, according to ISACA. The other 47 percent either …