Five points of failure in recovering from an attack
An over emphasis on defense is leaving the financial sector exposed to cyber attack. An increase in threat levels has seen the sector bolster defenses by focusing on detection …
Privileged accounts are still easy to compromise
A Thycotic survey of 201 Black Hat USA 2015 attendees found that a majority (75%) have not seen a fundamental change in the level of difficulty in compromising privileged …
Impact and scope of fraud that crosses multiple industries
84 percent of fraud mitigation professionals interviewed by LexisNexis Risk Solutions see fraud that crosses multiple industries in their investigations.Multi-industry fraud …
Looks like mobile device security is on nobody’s mind
Despite recent high-profile data theft attacks, much of the American workforce has not taken action to protect information on their personal and corporate-issued devices. …
API security becoming a CXO level concern
Today at Black Hat USA 2015, Akana released the findings of a survey of over 250 security practitioners, including CSOs, CISOs, and security architects.Aimed at quantifying …
79% of companies release apps with known vulnerabilities
The application development process is rampant with security risks due to current business pressures, according to new research released at Black Hat USA 2015 by Prevoty. From …
The leading cause of insider threats? Employee negligence
Employee negligence, which may be caused by multitasking and working long hours, can result in insider threats and cost companies millions of dollars each year. It can cost a …
The rapid growth of the bug bounty economy
On average, nearly five high-to-critical priority vulnerabilities are found within the lifetime of a single program, according to Bugcrowd.Another observed trend includes the …
Cyber insurance market to hit US$10 billion by 2020
Continued and sustained cyberattacks are having a ruinous effect on enterprises and driving up the cost of incident response. With over 900 million reported records exposed in …
Cybercriminals are preying on existing vulnerabilities to plan future attacks
Solutionary performed a broad analysis of the threat landscape, which unearthed several key findings. They identified several campaigns targeting the bash vulnerability during …
Cloud encryption and tokenization trends in financial services
The adoption of the cloud continues to grow rapidly with Gartner forecasting $282 billion in spending by 2018.“As financial services adopt the cloud, strict compliance …
Organizations on the hunt for DevOps, IoT and mobile skills
Red Hat released findings from its recent mobile survey revealing trends in enterprise mobility hiring priorities for 2015. According to the survey, 50 percent of …
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