CISOs must assess risks and identify the real security budget
Organizations spend an average of 5.6 percent of the overall IT budget on IT security and risk management, according to Gartner. However, IT security spending ranges from …
New infosec products of the week: December 9, 2016
Thales releases advanced encryption solutions for secure docker containers Thales released new capabilities for its Vormetric Data Security Platform. These advances extend …
Exploring data security in the legal sector and beyond
BitSight analyzed the Security Ratings of more than 20,000 organizations in six industries – Finance, Legal, Healthcare, Retail, Government and Energy. The objective was to …
80% of digital publishers don’t know how their web traffic is audited
The burden of proof is on publishers to defend their web traffic, yet 80 percent admit they don’t have insight into how their traffic is audited, raising questions about which …
Cybersecurity advice for the nuclear industry
Less complexity, an active defense, transformative research, and institutionalized cybersecurity should be nuclear industry’s key priorities to stem the rising tide of …
Announced: Independent OpenVPN security audit
VPN service Private Internet Access (PIA) has just announced that they have contracted noted and well-reputed cryptographer Dr. Matthew Green to perform a security audit of …
Cybersecurity gamification: A shortcut to learning
Cybersecurity awareness trainings are usually a boring affair, so imagine my colleagues’ surprise when I exited the room in which I participated in a demonstration of …
(IN)SECURE Magazine issue 52 released
(IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication discussing some of the hottest information security topics. Issue 52 has been released today. Table of contents …
Next year, attacks will differentiate to penetrate new vulnerable surfaces
The upcoming year will include an increased breadth and depth of attacks, with malicious threat actors differentiating their tactics to capitalize on the changing technology …
PoS attacks: Undetected vulnerabilities lay in wait
Attivo Networks issued a report detailing severe vulnerabilities in the nation’s POS systems that could lead to large breaches during the Holiday shopping period and on into …
323,000 pieces of malware detected daily
According to Kaspersky Lab, the number of new malware files detected by its products in 2016 increased to 323,000 per day. This is an increase of 13,000 from the amount in …
Popular smart toys violate children’s privacy rights?
My Friend Cayla and i-Que, two extremely popular “smart” toys manufactured by Los Angeles-based Genesis Toys, do not safeguard basic consumer (and …