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How We Enabled Ransomware to Become a Multibillion-Dollar Industry
As an industry, we must move beyond one-dimensional approaches to assessing ransomware exposures. Asking these four questions will help.
Commonsense Security: Leveraging Dialogue & Collaboration for Better Decisions
Sometimes, good old-fashioned tools can help an enterprise create a cost-effective risk management strategy.
5 Ways to Up Your Threat Management Game
Good security programs start with a mindset that it's not about the tools, it's what you do with them. Here's how to get out of a reactive fire-drill mode with vulnerability management.
Ensure Your Cloud Security Is as Modern as Your Business
Take a comprehensive approach to better protect your organization. Security hygiene is a must, but also look at your risk posture through a data protection lens.
Cybersecurity Industry: It's Time to Stop the Victim Blame Game
There are far more ways to be helpful than adding to the noise of what a company probably did wrong.
Solving the Cloud Data Security Conundrum
Trusting the cloud involves a change in mindset. You must be ready to use runtime encryption in the cloud.
How to Get CISOs & Boards on the Same Page
These two groups have talked past each other for years, each hobbled by their own tunnel vision and misperceptions.
It's Time to Break the 'Rule of Steve'
Today, in a room full of cybersecurity professionals, there are still more people called Steve than there are women.
5 Strategies to Secure Cloud Operations Against Today's Cyber Threats
With these fundamentals in mind, organizations can reduce their security and compliance risks as they reap the cloud's many benefits:
Zero-Factor Authentication: Owning Our Data
Are you asking the right questions to determine how well your vendors will protect your data? Probably not.
Don't Let Iowa Bring Our Elections Back to the Stone Age
The voting experience should be the same whether the vote is in person, by mail, or over the Internet. Let's not allow one bad incident stop us from finding new ways to achieve this.
Cyber Fitness Takes More Than a Gym Membership & a Crash Diet
Make cybersecurity your top priority, moving away from addressing individual problems with Band-Aids and toward attaining a long-term cyber-fitness plan.
Staircase to the Cloud: Dark Reading Caption Contest Winners
A humorous nod to the lack of gender equity in cybersecurity hiring was our judges' unanimous choice. And the winners are ...
The 5 Love Languages of Cybersecurity
When it comes to building buy-in from the business, all cybersecurity needs is love -- especially when it comes to communication.
Small Business Security: 5 Tips on How and Where to Start
There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for security, but a robust plan and the implementation of new technologies will help you and your IT team sleep better.
Forget Hacks... Ransomware, Phishing Are Election Year's Real Threats
As we gear up for the voting season, let's put aside any links between foreign interference and voting machine security and focus on the actual risks threatening election security.
Stop Defending Everything
Instead, try prioritizing with the aid of a thorough asset inventory.
5 Common Errors That Allow Attackers to Go Undetected
Make these mistakes and invaders might linger in your systems for years.
Why Ransomware Will Soon Target the Cloud
As businesses' daily operations become more dependent on cloud services, ransomware authors will follow to maximize profits. The good news: Many of the best practices for physical servers also apply to the cloud.
Keeping a Strong Security Metrics Framework Strong
Don't just report metrics -- analyze, understand, monitor, and adjust them. These 10 tips will show you how.
Day in the Life of a Bot
A typical workday for a bot, from its own point of view.
5 Measures to Harden Election Technology
Voting machinery needs hardware-level security. The stakes are the ultimate, and the attackers among the world's most capable.
Cybersecurity Vendor Landscape Transforming as Symantec, McAfee Enter New Eras
Two years ago, Symantec and McAfee were both primed for a comeback. Today, both face big questions about their future.
How Can We Make Election Technology Secure?
In Iowa this week, a smartphone app for reporting presidential caucus results debuted. It did not go well.
Keeping Compliance Data-Centric Amid Accelerating Regulation
As the regulatory landscape transforms, it's still smart to stay strategically focused on protecting your data.
Hiring Untapped Security Talent Can Transform the Industry
Cybersecurity needs unconventional hires to help lead the next phase of development and innovation, coupled with salaries that aren't insulting
Ransomware Attacks: Why It Should Be Illegal to Pay the Ransom
For cities, states and towns, paying up is short-sighted and only makes the problem worse.
What WON'T Happen in Cybersecurity in 2020
Predictions are a dime a dozen. Here are six trends that you won't be hearing about anytime soon.
How Device-Aware 2FA Can Defeat Social Engineering Attacks
While device-aware two-factor authentication is no panacea, it is more secure than conventional SMS-based 2FA. Here's why.
Embracing a Prevention Mindset to Protect Critical Infrastructure
A zero-trust, prevention-first approach is necessary to keep us safe, now and going forward.
How to Secure Your IoT Ecosystem in the Age of 5G
For businesses planning to adopt 5G, the sheer number of IoT devices creates a much larger attack surface.
Election Security 2020: How We Should Allocate $425M in Funding
Too many states and municipalities still rely on aging systems; it's time they upped their game and treated election technology like they would any other security project.
Securing Containers with Zero Trust
A software identity-based approach should become a standard security measure for protecting workloads in all enterprise networks.
Threat Hunting Is Not for Everyone
Threat hunting is a sophisticated, advanced technique that should be reserved for specific instances and be conducted only by trained professionals.
Why Companies Should Care about Data Privacy Day
Marking yesterday's 14th anniversary of Europe's first data protection day reminds us how far we still have to go.
CCPA: Cut From the Same Cloth as PCI DSS
Finally, some good news about CCPA: If you've built your security infrastructure to PCI DSS standards, you may be already covered by California's new data protection rules
How to Get the Most Out of Your Security Metrics
There's an art to reporting security metrics so that they speak the language of leadership and connect the data from tools to business objectives.
5 Resume Basics for a Budding Cybersecurity Career
You'll need to add resume tactician to your skill set in order to climb up the next rung on the security job ladder. Here's how.
Deconstructing Web Cache Deception Attacks: They're Bad; Now What?
Expect cache attacks to get worse before they get better. The problem is that we don't yet have a good solution.
Weathering the Privacy Storm from GDPR to CCPA & PDPA
A general approach to privacy, no matter the regulation, is the only way companies can avoid a data protection disaster in 2020 and beyond.
Why DPOs and CISOs Must Work Closely Together
Recent data protection laws mean that the data protection officer and CISO must work in tandem to make sure users' data is protected.
Cybersecurity Lessons Learned from 'The Rise of Skywalker'
They're especially relevant regarding several issues we face now, including biometrics, secure data management, and human error with passwords.
Avoid That Billion-Dollar Fine: Blurring the Lines Between Security and Privacy
While doing good for the user is the theoretical ideal, the threat of fiscal repercussions should drive organizations to take privacy seriously. That means security and data privacy teams must work more closely.
Data Awareness Is Key to Data Security
Traditional data-leak prevention is not enough for businesses facing today's dynamic threat landscape.
Are We Secure Yet? How to Build a 'Post-Breach' Culture
There are many ways to improve your organization's cybersecurity practices, but the most important principle is to start from the top.
Phishing Today, Deepfakes Tomorrow: Training Employees to Spot This Emerging Threat
Cybercriminals are evolving their tactics, and the security community anticipates voice and video fraud to play a role in one of the next big data breaches -- so start protecting your business now.
Active Directory Needs an Update: Here's Why
AD is still the single point of authentication for most companies that use Windows. But it has some shortcomings that should be addressed.
Why Firewalls Aren't Going Anywhere
Written off multiple times as obsolete, firewalls continue to elude demise by adding features and ensuring that VPNs keep humming.
How SD-WAN Helps Achieve Data Security and Threat Protection
Enterprises currently consider the technology a best practice because of its flexibility, scalability, performance, and agility.
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6 Emerging Cyber Threats That Enterprises Face in 2020This Tech Digest gives an in-depth look at six emerging cyber threats that enterprises could face in 2020. Download your copy today!
How Enterprises Are Developing and Maintaining Secure Applications
The concept of application security is well known, but application security testing and remediation processes remain unbalanced. Most organizations are confident in their approach to AppSec, although others seem to have no approach at all. Read this report to find out more.
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