Inside the NIST team working to make cybersecurity more user-friendly
Cybersecurity is usually not a user’s primary duty, yet they suffer an increasing burden to respond to security warnings, maintain many complex passwords, and make security …
More than 2 million cyber incidents in 2018 created $45 billion in losses
The financial impact of ransomware rose by 60%, losses from business email compromise (BEC) doubled, and cryptojacking incidents more than tripled, all despite the fact that …
What can financial institutions do to improve email security?
Financial institutions are in a fully-fledged war against data breaches. And rightly so – the finance sector is a frequent target of ransomware, phishing, and other malicious …
Why identity is the foundation of security
Once upon a time, companies secured their valuable information by locking file cabinets and installing passwords and firewalls around databases and systems in office-based …
Cybersecurity crisis communication: How to do it well
Riviera Beach is one of the several cities and towns in Florida which have recently been hit with ransomware. Its local government, like that of Lake City before it, decided …
Business security in the age of malicious bots
As most technologies, bots can be used for good and bad purposes, and the information security industry is doing its best to minimize the adverse effects of the latter …
How the healthcare industry can improve online trust
Privacy on the internet is important in all industries, but none more so than the healthcare sector, which handles mass amounts of online health data daily. While any data …
Bringing more talented individuals into the security industry
In this interview, Tony Vizza, Director of Cybersecurity Advocacy, Asia-Pacific, (ISC)2, talks about the growing information security skills shortage, the importance of …
The biggest SecOps burdens hindering progress for enterprises and MSSPs
Only 16% of security operations professionals think that their SecOps programs have reached the highest maturity level, according to a Siemplify and Cyentia Institute study. …
Cybersecurity professionals are outgunned and burned out
Nearly half (48 percent total) of cybersecurity leaders across France, Germany and the UK believe their teams are falling behind in the skills race against would-be cyber …
When it comes to cybersecurity, perfection is the enemy of progress
In information security, perfection is the enemy of progress, says Lenny Zeltser, VP of Product at Axonius. But it’s one thing to know about this maxim, and another to …
Where are organizations stalling with cybersecurity best practices?
UK organizations are failing to make progress towards strong cybersecurity and are facing paralysis as cybercriminals become more advanced, according to NTT Security. …