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The global impact of huge cyber security events
The past 12 months have seen a number of unprecedented cyber-attacks in terms of their global scale, impact and rate of spread. Already causing widespread public concern, …

Protecting networks from DNS exfiltration
Everyone around the globe has heard about the colossal Equifax breach last month. Its implications haven’t yet been fully calculated except now that the CEO has resigned from …

How attackers can take advantage of encrypted tunnels
Many organizations are not actively examining the encrypted traffic in their network. According to a Venafi survey, roughly a quarter (23%) of security professionals don’t …

How US and UK companies address GDPR data protection requirements
Data privacy is becoming more complex, companies are equally unprepared in both the UK and US to comply with GDPR by the May 2018 deadline, and US companies are investing more …

Gartner reveals the 2017 Hype Cycle for Data Management
As data becomes ever more distributed across multiple systems, organizations have to cope with increasingly complex ecosystems and digital business requirements. Hype Cycle …

Week in review: Deloitte hack, insecure Mac firmware, new issue of (IN)SECURE
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: XPCTRA financial malware leaves no stone unturned A Trojan that has previously been …

Cybercriminals increasingly focusing on credential theft
Criminal tactics used to access user credentials are growing in prevelance, and that a record 47 percent of all malware is new or zero day, and thus able to evade …

Inadequate IT processes continue to create major security and compliance risks
The results of a study of more than 900 IT security professionals, conducted by Dimensional Research, spotlights how common security best practices – such as timely …

Company directors are increasingly involved with cybersecurity
According to a new survey by BDO USA, 79% of public company directors report that their board is more involved with cybersecurity than it was 12 months ago and 78% say they …

Is this the year SIEM goes over the cliff?
While this may not be the year that Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions fall off of the cliff of relevancy into obsolete software land, they are slowly …

(IN)SECURE Magazine issue 55 released
(IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication discussing some of the hottest information security topics. Issue 55 has been released today. Table of contents …

Only 45% of organizations have a structured plan for GDPR compliance
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into effect in 2018, making organizations accountable for personal data protection including how and where data is stored …