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California Consumer Privacy Act: 4 Compliance Best Practices
Companies that get ahead of the January 2020 data privacy deadline can minimize the risk of sanctions and also gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
How to Help Your Board Navigate Cybersecurity's Legal Risks
What's worse than a massive data breach? A massive data breach followed by a shareholder derivative lawsuit. Learn what's at stake and what CISOs can do to mitigate the damage.
A Rear-View Look at GDPR: Compliance Has No Brakes
With a year of Europe's General Data Protection Regulation under our belt, what have we learned?
Go Medieval to Keep OT Safe
When it comes to operational technology and industrial control systems, make sure you're the lord of all you survey.
How a Nigerian ISP Accidentally Hijacked the Internet
For 74 minutes, traffic destined for Google and Cloudflare services was routed through Russia and into the largest system of censorship in the world, China's Great Firewall.
Ramblings of a Recovering Academic on the So-Called Lack of Security Talent
Hiring for security is difficult, as many surveys show. But what the research doesn't explain is the "why" — and a lack of talent may not be the sole reason.
5 Security Challenges to API Protection
Today's application programming interfaces are no longer simple or front-facing, creating new risks for both security and DevOps.
Attackers Aren't Invincible & We Must Use That to Our Advantage
The bad guys only seem infallible. Use their weaknesses to beat them.
When Every Attack Is a Zero Day
Stopping malware the first time is an ideal that has remained tantalizingly out of reach. But automation, artificial intelligence, and deep learning are poised to change that.
Will the US Adopt a National Privacy Law?
Probably not before the 2020 election. But keep an eye on this Congress as legislators debate how to define personal data and what limits to place on how companies use it.
4 Tips to Protect Your Business Against Social Media Mistakes
Don't let social media become the go-to platform for cybercriminals looking to steal sensitive corporate information or cause huge reputational damage.
Why We Need a 'Cleaner Internet'
By blocking threats and attacks nearer to their sources, cybersecurity pros could help turn the connected world into a safer place for all.
How to Raise the Level of AppSec Competency in Your Organization
Improving processes won't happen overnight, but it's not complicated either.
GoT Guide to Cybersecurity: Preparing for Battle During a Staffing Shortage
Faced with an overwhelming adversary, Game of Thrones heroes Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow have a lot in common with today's beleaguered CISOs.
Legacy Apps: The Security Risk Lurking in Dusty Corners
Four best practices to keep old code from compromising your enterprise environment.
Selecting the Right Strategy to Reduce Vulnerability Risk
There's no one-size-fits-all strategy for eliminating vulnerability risk. Knowing how your organization operates is what makes the difference.
Benefiting from Data Privacy Investments
GDPR-ready companies experience lower overall costs associated with data breaches, research finds.
New Attacks (and Old Attacks Made New)
Although new attacks might get the most attention, don't assume old ones have gone away.
The Single Cybersecurity Question Every CISO Should Ask
The answer can lead to a scalable enterprise security solution for years to come.
Cloudy with a Chance of Security Breach
Businesses must be aware of the security weaknesses of the public cloud and not assume that every angle is covered.
In Security, All Logs Are Not Created Equal
Prioritizing key log sources goes a long way toward effective incident response.
When Your Sandbox Fails
The sandbox is an important piece of the security stack, but an organization's entire strategy shouldn't rely on its ability to detect every threat. Here's why.
Merging Companies, Merging Clouds
Integrating cloud environments is anything but easy. Evaluating the security risks in doing so must be a starting component of an overall M&A strategy.
Safe Harbor Programs: Ensuring the Bounty Isn't on White Hat Hackers' Heads
As crowdsourced security-testing surges in popularity, companies need to implement safe harbor provisions to protect good-faith hackers -- and themselves.
A New Approach to Application Security Testing
If the appsec industry were to develop a better AST solution from scratch, what would it look like?
Stop Mocking & Start Enabling Emerging Technologies
Mocking new technology isn't productive and can lead to career disadvantage.
Ignore the Insider Threat at Your Peril
Attacks from insiders often go undiscovered for months or years, so the potential impact can be huge. These 11 countermeasures can mitigate the damage.
Advanced Persistent Threat: Dark Reading Caption Contest Winners
From sushi and phishing to robots, passwords and ninjas -- and the winners are ...
The Matrix at 20: A Metaphor for Today's Cybersecurity Challenges
The Matrix ushered in a new generation of sci-fi movies and futuristic plotlines with a relentless, seemingly invulnerable set of villains. Twenty years later, that theme is all too familiar to security pros.
3 Lessons Security Leaders Can Learn from Theranos
Theranos flamed out in spectacular fashion, but you can still learn from the company's "worst practices."
True Cybersecurity Means a Proactive Response
Successful, secure organizations must take an aggressive, pre-emptive posture if they want true data security.
Privacy & Regulatory Considerations in Enterprise Blockchain
People who understand information governance, privacy, and security should be active participants on the distributed ledger technology implementation team to ensure success.
In Security, Programmers Aren't Perfect
Software developers and their managers must change their perception of secure coding from being an optional feature to being a requirement that is factored into design from the beginning.
War on Zero-Days: 4 Lessons from Recent Google & Microsoft Vulns
When selecting targets, attackers often consider total cost of 'pwnership' -- the expected cost of an operation versus the likelihood of success. Defenders need to follow a similar strategy.
Airports & Operational Technology: 4 Attack Scenarios
As OT systems increasingly fall into the crosshairs of cyberattackers, aviation-industry CISOs have become hyper-focused on securing them.
In the Race Toward Mobile Banking, Don't Forget Risk Management
The rise of mobile banking and payment services has sparked widespread adoption, making a focus on risk essential.
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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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