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New sheriffs in town: No More Ransom
A couple of months ago, Intel Security, Kaspersky Lab, Dutch National Police and Europol announced the No More Ransom initiative. Such an initiative was a true example of the …
Approaching security self-sufficiency
As part of my role as CSO, I’m extremely lucky to get to have conversations with CISOs, CTOs, and other technology leaders across industries. One of the things that has always …
The economics of ransomware revealed
70 percent of businesses infected with ransomware have paid ransom to regain access to business data and systems. In comparison, over 50 percent of consumers surveyed said …
Consumers worry more about cybercrime than physical crime
Consumers are more worried about cybercrime than physical world crime, according to Sophos. The survey polled 1,250 consumers in the US, UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. …
Risky sites have never been easier to exploit
46% of the Internet’s top 1 million web sites, as ranked by Alexa, are risky. This is largely due to vulnerable software running on web servers and on underlying ad …
Healthcare IT professionals are overconfident
A Dimensional Research study evaluated the confidence of IT professionals regarding the efficacy of seven key security controls, which must be in place to quickly detect a …
DDoS attacks via WordPress now come with encryption
Kaspersky Lab experts have noted an emerging trend – a growth in the number of attacks using encryption. Such attacks are highly effective due to the difficulty in identifying …
End the air gapping myth in critical infrastructure security
In an environment where we’re seeing increasing demand for connectivity between operational technology (OT) and IT, security teams have to dispel the air gapping myth to …
The rising use of personal identities in the workplace
90% of enterprise IT professionals are concerned that employee reuse of personal credentials for work purposes could compromise security. However, with 68% saying they would …
Should security vendors offer product guarantees?
A new Vanson Bourne survey of 500 businesses in the UK, US, France and Germany revealed that nine in ten companies want to see IT security vendors offer a guarantee on their …
Consumers regularly share passcodes, creating compromising situations
Consumers keep more and more sensitive personal and professional information on their mobile phones, but most people remain alarmingly casual about adequately protecting that …
The new CISO imperative: Solving the information management paradox
In the drive to become more cyber resilient in 2017, organizations are extending risk management that is traditionally based on parametric measures (i.e., data loss prevention …