cybersecurity
Let user experience guide your security requirements
If you’re like most business leaders, you try to do everything you can to keep your company’s information safe. You tell your employees to use strong passwords and offer …
Making informed decisions: The importance of data driven security
When deciding what product to buy, the information the vendor offers about the product is helpful, but not nearly enough: you need to analyze individual product results and …
Who’s trying to eavesdrop on your customers’ encrypted mobile traffic?
The number one source of TLS/SSL Man in the Middle (MitM) attacks on encrypted mobile traffic are not corporate firewalls or captive portals used by hotels, airports and other …
The importance of career pathing in the cybersecurity industry
A major issue facing our industry right now is a significant shortage of talented, skilled cybersecurity professionals. Whether that’s due to lack of interest or a fundamental …
Don’t sleep on laptop security, safeguard your data
For many of us, shutting our laptops after a tough day in the office is a satisfying feeling that signals the end of work until tomorrow. But what we don’t realise is that …
Endpoint breach prevention by reducing attack surfaces
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2018, Chris Carlson, VP of Product Management, Cloud Agent Platform at Qualys, talks about endpoint breach prevention by reducing …
2.6 billion records exposed in 2,300 disclosed breaches so far this year
Risk Based Security released its Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView report, showing there have been 2,308 publicly disclosed data compromise events through June 30th. After a …
Cloud computing remains top emerging business risk
Cloud computing ranks as the top risk concern for executives in risk, audit, finance and compliance, according to the latest survey by Gartner. In Gartner’s latest quarterly …
Chaos and confusion reign with existing firewall infrastructure
Many organizations are still struggling to master basic firewall hygiene, promising increased complexity and risk associated with network security policy management for those …
DDoS attackers increasingly strike outside of normal business hours
DDoS attack volumes have increased by 50% to an average of 3.3 Gbps during May, June and July 2018, compared to 2.2 Gbps during the previous quarter, according to Link11. …
PSD2 SCA requirements will be implemented soon, are you ready?
As the second Payment Services Directive continues its rollout, regulations making it obligatory for organisations to implement strong customer authentication (SCA) in online …
Connecting the dots to North Korea as a threat adversary
Reports of malware campaigns invariably focus on two critical conclusions: attribution and who was the intended target of the attack. It is challenging to draw swift …