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The difficult task of meeting compliance needs

Compliance is a complex issue in many industries and organizations know all too well that there are major fines and potential punishments for not meeting the laws and …

3 ways to stop insider threats in your organization

No one wants their organization to be the next poster child for a major informational breach. No one wants their company to make headlines for having their data compromised or …

Mobile SSL failures: More common than they should be

Securing your mobile application traffic is apparently more difficult than it should be, as researchers Anthony Trummer and Tushar Dalvi discovered when looking into SSL/TLS …

Why is ERP security so difficult?

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) security has been all over the news lately. From high profile breaches, like the recent U.S. Office of Personnel Management breach, to …

What a business leader should know about the cloud and its impact

Great companies see business risks as opportunities, and execute strategies accordingly. Such a mentality is compatible with emerging technologies. IT plays a vital role in …

Never underestimate the impact of a data breach

The growth of cyber-crime and the impact of successful attacks on an organization’s bottom-line should not be underestimated; it is anticipated that data breaches will …

Why location-based social media data is critical for security

Sports games at stadiums, hurricanes along the coast, protests on city streets, guest complaints at hotels, customer praise at restaurants, bullying at schools… Things happen …

We don’t know what we don’t know

Citing the latest cyber security statistics is a popular way for security companies to show that they are keeping a watchful eye on the threat landscape. Where does the …

The best way to prevent data breaches? It’s not what you think

Data security breaches seem to be popping up almost daily. From the 2015 IRS breach, to the hacking of federal government employees’ data by China, it’s clear much of our most …

Data-centric security with RightsWATCH

The fact that sensitive data seems to increasingly follow a pattern of being leaked, lost or stolen, has forced security professionals to rethink how their organizations can …

You’ve been breached, now what?

Everybody tends to think that hackers will never ever target them or their company/organization until a breach occurs. This article concentrate on post-incident actions and …

Why vulnerability disclosure shouldn’t be a marketing tool

There have been many arguments within the security community on how researchers should disclose the existence of a security vulnerability. Some argue that full disclosure is …

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