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The Attribution Question: Does It Matter Who Attacked You?
Everyone will ask whodunnit, but how can an organization put that information to practical use during disaster recovery and planning for the future?
Recalibrating Cybersecurity Spending Projections
How big and how fast will the cybersecurity market grow in five years? Inquiring minds want to know.
The Newbie’s 'How To Survive Black Hat' Guide
There’s little chance you won’t be totally exhausted after “drinking from the information firehose” all week. But if you follow these eight steps, it will be a very satisfying kind of fatigue.
Microsoft + LinkedIn: How To Spot Insider Trading Risk Early
With the explosion of mobile, cloud, and the blurring of work and personal data, companies considering M&A have a lot to worry about when it comes to insider threats.
Mind The Gap: CISOs Versus 'Operators'
How open communication among security execs and analysts, incidents responders, and engineers can help organizations stay on top of the constantly changing threat landscape.
Security Lessons from My Financial Planner
Security investments can be viewed as a portfolio. If we think in portfolio terms, we realize that ROI is a backwards-looking measure. What else can we learn from financial planners?
Phishing, Whaling & The Surprising Importance Of Privileged Users
By bagging a privileged user early on, attackers can move from entry point to mission accomplished in no time at all.
5 Tips For Staying Cyber-Secure On Your Summer Vacation
Stick with mobile payment apps and carrier networks when traveling. And don't broadcast your plans or locations via social media.
How Secure is Secure? Tips For Investing In The Right Strategy
Business alignment, defense-in-depth and a phased approach are three principles to follow when building out a solid security program.
Pretty Good Passwords: Cartoon Caption Contest Winners
Sticky notes, multi-factor authentication, password reuse and Donald Trump. And the winner is...
Symantec’s Purchase of Blue Coat Fills Critical Product Gap, Interim President Says
Combined business will have a product portfolio that is wide enough to address all threat vectors, Ajei Gopal says.
What CISOs Need to Tell The Board About Cyber Risk
To avoid devastating financial losses, boards and the C-suite must have a deep understating of the cyber risks their organizations’ face. Here’s what they need to hear from the security team
Cisco Invests $10 Million To Tackle Cybersecurity Talent Gap
The company’s Global Cybersecurity Scholarship program is looking to diversify the talent pool by working with veterans, women and those early in their careers.
A Look Back At Dark Reading's Best 10 Years (So Far)
The past decade in security -- from botnets that were bigger than some service provider networks to vulnerabilities that affected not only whole industries but the very fabric of the internet. And much, much more...
Symantec To Spend $4.65 Billion On Blue Coat
Deal will reportedly make company the world’s largest enterprise security business by revenues, but some in infosec industry are concerned.
5 Soft Skills Young Cybersecurity Professionals Need to Get Ahead
Today’s employers aren’t looking for recruits who can maintain firewalls and mitigate risk. They want well-rounded professionals who can apply security expertise across the business to yield bottom-line results.
Self-Service Password Reset & Social Engineering: A Match Made In Hell
A sad tale of how hackers compromised a CEO’s corporate account by trolling Facebook and LInkedin for answers to six common authentication questions. (And how to avoid that happening to you)
Revealing Lessons About Vulnerability Research
It’s not clear why a dozen FBI agents showed up at a security researcher’s door last month but as cyber becomes more a factor in product safety, our judicial system needs to get a better grasp on who the real criminals are.
The End Of A Security Decade -- And The Beginning Of A New One
Dark Reading wraps up its 10th anniversary coverage with a final look back at the decade -- and a look ahead.
Tenable Network Security CEO Steps Down
Ron Gula to stay on as chairman, search on for new chief executive.
‘Super Hunters’ Emerge As More Companies Adopt Bug Bounties
'Super hunters' chase down vulnerabilities wherever there's a bug bounty payday...and they've become very popular with cybersecurity job recruiters, says Bugcrowd report.
Microsoft, Lookout Team Up In Mobile Security
Microsoft’s EMS integration with Lookout aim to strengthen customer access policies.
BYOD Security: How To Shift Device Control & Grant Users More Choice
Gartner’s ‘managed diversity’ model offers an ITIL-compliant information security solution to the problem of Shadow IT.
How Facebook Raises A Generation Of Intelligence Analysts
In the process of creating and administering groups, users learn how to read data points, create a risk profile in their head, and watch for changes over time.
How ‘Agile’ Changed Security At Dun & Bradstreet
Chief Security Officer Jon Rose shares the whys and wherefores of integrating agile software development methodology into a traditional security environment.
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Everything You Need to Know About DNS AttacksIt's important to understand DNS, potential attacks against it, and the tools and techniques required to defend DNS infrastructure. This report answers all the questions you were afraid to ask.
Domain Name Service (DNS) is a critical part of any organization's digital infrastructure, but it's also one of the least understood. DNS is designed to be invisible to business professionals, IT stakeholders, and many security professionals, but DNS's threat surface is large and widely targeted.
Attackers are causing a great deal of damage with an array of attacks such as denial of service, DNS cache poisoning, DNS hijackin, DNS tunneling, and DNS dangling. They are using DNS infrastructure to take control of inbound and outbound communications and preventing users from accessing the applications they are looking for. To stop attacks on DNS, security teams need to shore up the organization's security hygiene around DNS infrastructure, implement controls such as DNSSEC, and monitor DNS traffic
Incident Readiness and Building Response Playbook
In this special report, learn the Xs and Os of any good security incident readiness and response playbook.
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