
Increasing network visibility is critical to improving security posture
IT leaders around the world share a ubiquitous appetite for greater network visibility. The findings of a Forrester Consulting study underscore a convergence in security with …

Emotional and physical effects of identity theft are on the rise
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has published a research that shows nearly 40 percent of ITRC victims say their personal information was stolen, compromised or …

3 ways enterprises can mitigate social engineering risks
In this Help Net Security video, Alon Levin, VP of Product Management at Seraphic Security, explains what social engineering is, and how prevalent it is. He offers insight …

Tackling the weaknesses of smart buildings’ technology
Like any other innovation, the integration of IoT technology in smart buildings will bring benefits as well as more and newer risks. The market for smart building technologies …

The gap between security and privacy, and what it will take to bridge it
In this Help Net Security video, Bill Tolson, VP of eDiscovery & Compliance at Archive360, talks about the biggest and perhaps only question in information governance …

APIs are quickly becoming the most popular attack vector
In this Help Net Security video, Shay Levi, CTO at Noname Security, discusses the findings from a recent API security report, which reveals a growing number of API security …

CIS Hardened Images on AWS Marketplace
Does your organization spend countless resources hardening operating systems in the cloud? That’s why CIS pre-hardens virtual machine (VM) images to CIS Benchmark …

Assessing the state of the internet to make smart security decisions
The internet constantly changes as new technologies are developed, and vulnerabilities are discovered. At the same time, organizations expand their operations that interact …

CIS Controls v8: Safeguards to mitigate the most prevalent cyber-attacks
The CIS Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls) are a prioritized set of safeguards to mitigate cyber-attacks against systems and networks. They are mapped to and referenced …

Why digital trust is the bedrock of business relationships
In this Help Net Security video, David Samuelson, CEO at ISACA, talks about how enterprises approach digital trust. While nearly 98% of respondents to an ISACA survey say that …

What should investing in cybersecurity look like for a technology organization?
To withstand cyberattacks, businesses must continually update internal systems and avoid hasty tech upgrades that might open the door to attackers. In this Help Net Security …

HTTP request smuggling vulnerability in Node.js (CVE-2022-35256)
In this Help Net Security video, Austin Jones, Principal Software Engineer at ThreatX, explains what HTTP request smuggling is, and discusses a recently uncovered HTTP request …