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Breaking the Endless Cycle of 'Perfect' Cybercrimes
A two-step strategy for creating an attack environment that is more complex, less profitable, and more likely to expose the attacker.
Could Foster Kids Help Solve the Security Skills Shortage?
Foster Warriors is a new nonprofit initiative focused on helping foster kids find a place in the world, and especially in the world of security. Join us!
How to Avoid Becoming the Next Riviera Beach
Be prepared by following these five steps so you don't have to pay a ransom to get your data back.
The Rise of Silence and the Fall of Coinhive
Cryptomining will exist as long as it remains profitable. One of the most effective ways to disrupt that activity is to make it too expensive to run cryptomining malware in your network.
Never Trust, Always Verify: Demystifying Zero Trust to Secure Your Networks
The point of Zero Trust is not to make networks, clouds, or endpoints more trusted; it's to eliminate the concept of trust from digital systems altogether.
Patrolling the New Cybersecurity Perimeter
Remote work and other developments demand a shift to managing people rather than devices.
'Democratizing' Machine Learning for Fraud Prevention & Payments Intelligence
How fraud experts can fight cybercrime by 'downloading' their knowledge and experience into computer models.
The Hunt for Vulnerabilities
A road map for improving the update process will help reduce the risks from vulnerabilities.
Serverless Computing from the Inside Out
The biggest 'serverless' risks don't stem from the technology itself. They occur when organizations respond to the adoption from the outside in.
How Hackers Emptied Church Coffers with a Simple Phishing Scam
Cyber thieves aren't bound by a code of ethics. They look for weak targets and high rewards, which is exactly what Saint Ambrose Catholic offered.
The Evolution of Identity
How data and technology can help businesses make the right fraud decisions, protect people's identities, and create an improved customer experience.
Can Your Patching Strategy Keep Up with the Demands of Open Source?
It's time to reassess your open source management policies and processes.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up the Cloud
Most companies' cloud security operations would benefit significantly from clean-up, alignment, and organization.
Sensory Overload: Filtering Out Cybersecurity's Noise
No organization can prioritize and mitigate hundreds of risks effectively. The secret lies in carefully filtering out the risks, policies, and processes that waste precious time and resources.
The CISO's Drive to Consolidation
Cutting back on the number of security tools you're using can save money and leave you safer. Here's how to get started.
The Rise of 'Purple Teaming'
The next generation of penetration testing represents a more collaborative approach to old fashioned Red Team vs. Blue Team.
Tomorrow's Cybersecurity Analyst Is Not Who You Think
Organizations can't just rely on diverse and cutting-edge technologies to fight adversaries. They will also need people with diverse expertise and backgrounds.
Predicting Vulnerability Weaponization
Advances in data science are making it possible to shift vulnerability management from a reactive to a proactive discipline.
What 3 Powerful GoT Women Teach Us about Cybersecurity
Imagine Game of Thrones' Daenerys Targaryen, Arya Stark, and Cersei Lannister on the front lines in the real-world battleground of enterprise security.
Getting Up to Speed on Magecart
Greater awareness of how Magecart works will give your company a leg up on the growing threat from this online credit card skimmer. Here are four places to start.
Unmixed Messages: Bringing Security & Privacy Awareness Together
Security and privacy share the same basic goals, so it just makes sense to combine efforts in those two areas. But that can be easier said than done.
End User Lockdown: Dark Reading Caption Contest Winners
Phishing, cybersecurity training, biometrics and casual Fridays. And the winners are ...
Cyber Talent Gap? Don't Think Like Tinder!
If your company truly is a great place to work, make sure your help-wanted ads steer clear of these common job-listing clichés.
When Security Goes Off the Rails
Cyber can learn a lot from the highly regulated world of rail travel. The most important lesson: the value of impartial analysis.
How to Get the Most Benefits from Biometrics
Providing an easy-to-use, uniform authentication experience without passwords is simpler than you may think.
CISOs & CIOs: Better Together
An overview of three common organizational structures illustrates how NOT to pit chief security and IT execs against each other.
Why FedRAMP Matters to Non-Federal Organizations
Commercial companies should explore how FedRAMP can help mitigate risk as they move to the cloud.
What Cyber Skills Shortage?
Employers can solve the skills gap by first recognizing that there isn't an archetypal "cybersecurity job" in the same way that there isn't an archetypal "automotive job." Here’s how.
Certifiably Distracted: The Economics of Cybersecurity
Is cybersecurity worth the investment? It depends.
Focusing on Endpoints: 5 Steps to Fight Cybercrime
Follow these best practices to strengthen endpoint management strategies and protect company data.
Caveat Emptor: Calculating the Impact of Global Attacks on Cyber Insurance
The reality for business owners and CISOs looking to protect their business from a cyberattack is that cyber insurance is not a catchall for protecting against risk and loss.
The Ransomware Dilemma: What if Your Local Government Is Next?
Baltimore has so far refused to comply with a ransom demand. It's being forced to make a decision all such victims face: to act morally or practically.
Don't Just Tune Your SIEM, Retune It
Your SIEM isn't a set-it-and-forget-it proposition. It's time for a spring cleaning.
Why Fostering Flexibility Is a Win for Women & Cybersecurity
Creating a culture of supporting and advancing women is no small feat, but it's worth the challenge. Start with yourself. Here's how.
Cybercrime: Looking Beyond the Dark Web
Fighting cybercrime requires visibility into much more than just the Dark Web. Here's where to look and a glimpse of what you'll find.
'Cattle, Not Pets' & the Rise of Security-as-Code
Nearly a decade in, the famous analogy has underpinned a sea change in enterprise IT, but still falls short of the security mark. More recent developments can help.
How Security Vendors Can Address the Cybersecurity Talent Shortage
The talent gap is too large for any one sector, and cybersecurity vendors have a big role to play in helping to close it.
Google's Origin & the Danger of Link Sharing
How the act of sharing links to files stored in a public cloud puts organizations at risk, and what security teams can do to safeguard data and PII.
Incident Response: 3 Easy Traps & How to Avoid Them
Sage legal advice about navigating a data breach from a troubleshooting cybersecurity outside counsel.
Proving the Value of Security Awareness with Metrics that 'Deserve More'
Without metrics that matter to the business, awareness programs will continue to be the bastard child of security.
The 3 Cybersecurity Rules of Trust
Every day, keeping anything secure requires being smart about trust. The rules of trust will keep you and your data safer.
To Narrow the Cyber Skills Gap with Attackers, Cut the Red Tape
Attackers are getting further ahead, and entrenched corporate rules shoulder much of the blame.
Old Threats Are New Again
They may look familiar to you, and that isn't a coincidence. New threats are often just small twists on old ones.
Financial Sector Under Siege
The old take-the-money-and-run approach has been replaced by siege tactics such as DDOS attacks and land-and-expand campaigns with multiple points of persistence and increased dwell time.
Killer SecOps Skills: Soft Is the New Hard
The sooner we give mindsets and tool sets equal bearing, the better. We must put SOC team members through rigorous training for emergency situations.
A Trustworthy Digital Foundation Is Essential to Digital Government
Agencies must take steps to ensure that citizens trust in the security of government's digital channels.
The Data Problem in Security
CISOs must consider reputation, resiliency, and regulatory impact to establish their organization's guidelines around what data matters most.
Cyber Workforce Exec Order: Right Question, Wrong Answer
Shuffling resources, adding administrative process, and creating a competition and incentive system will do little to grow and mature the talent we need to meet the cybersecurity challenges we face.
Introducing the Digital Transformation Architect
Bet-the-company transformation that expands the attack surface requires close alignment and leadership across executive, IT and security teams.
Windows 10 Migration: Getting It Right
The transition to Windows 10 doesn't need to be a sprint. Organizations can still take advantage of the security in Windows 7 while gaining added management flexibility from the newer OS.
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Building and Managing an IT Security Operations ProgramAs cyber threats grow, many organizations are building security operations centers (SOCs) to improve their defenses. In this Tech Digest you will learn tips on how to get the most out of a SOC in your organization - and what to do if you can't afford to build one.
The State of IT Operations and Cybersecurity Operations
Your enterprise's cyber risk may depend upon the relationship between the IT team and the security team. Here’s some insight on what's working – and what isn't – in the data center.
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