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#SecurityNews: “Security Budgets; Do You Know Your Priorities?”
As business leaders become more ‘cyber aware’ concerns over data security...
#SecurityNews: “Less than 10% of Companies Feel Safe from Insider Threats”
In an era of Edward Snowden and other high-profile data exfiltration...
#SecurityNews: “Forgotten risks hide in legacy systems”
These days, there’s no shortage of new business technologies and new threat vectors to the enterprise. But what many companies forget is that old technologies pose risks as well, and those risks...
#SecurityNews: “IAM resources are going to be in demand”
I am not sure what Nostradamus had predicted about IT Security and IAM but from Facebook to Adobe, 2013 was a tough year for companies looking to defend against cyber-crimes. There were hundreds of...
#SecurityNews: “The NSA allegedly exploited the Heartbleed Bug for years”
The US National Security Agency reportedly took advantage of the vulnerability that has come to be known as the Heartbleed Bug long before the exploit was made public. The NSA used Heartbleed «to...
#SecurityNews: “Risk changes in the cloud”
Companies are no longer tolerant of security-and-compliance teams telling them they cannot go to the cloud. The benefits of cloud technologies are too many to ignore in a business strategy: commodity pricing, flexible scaling, low staff needs, and (for SAAS) a...
#SecurityNews: “The Insider Threat from a Credentials-Based Attack”
Stolen account credentials played a part in the recent Target Corporation payment card data breach. With approximately 40 million customers’ credit and debit card information exposed, stolen credentials from a third party vendor highlighted the weak security that...
#SecurityNews: “Security Budgets; Do You Know Your Priorities?”
As business leaders become more ‘cyber aware’ concerns over data security shift from awareness to action. Organisations around the globe are increasing security spending, but have they prioritised budgets correctly or are they just throwing money at the problem? There...
#SecurityNews: “Less than 10% of Companies Feel Safe from Insider Threats”
In an era of Edward Snowden and other high-profile data exfiltration incidents, such as last year’s Saudi Aramco breach, perhaps it’s unsurprising that only 9% of businesses in a recent survey from Ovum said that they feel safe from insider threats. Insider...