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How Not To Pay A Ransom: 3 Tips For Enterprise Security Pros
At the most basic level, organizations must understand their data, the entry points, and who has access. But don’t forget to keep your backup systems up to date.
Malware Markets: Exposing The Hype & Filtering The Noise
There’s a lot of useful infosec information out there, but cutting through clutter is harder than it should be.
6 Ways To Hack An Election
Threats to our electoral process can come from outside the country or nefarious insiders. Our country needs to be better prepared.
Security Analytics: Making the Leap from Data Lake to Meaningful Insight
Once you’ve got a lake full of data, it’s essential that your analysis isn’t left stranded on the shore.
Critical Infrastructure: The Next Cyber-Attack Target
Power and utilities companies need a risk-centric cybersecurity approach to face coming threats.
The Hidden Dangers Of 'Bring Your Own Body'
The use of biometric data is on the rise, causing new security risks that must be assessed and addressed.
The Secret Behind the NSA Breach: Network Infrastructure Is the Next Target
How the networking industry has fallen way behind in incorporating security measures to prevent exploits to ubiquitous routers, proxies, firewalls, and switches.
Security Leadership & The Art Of Decision Making
What a classically-trained guitarist with a Master’s Degree in counseling brings to the table as head of cybersecurity and privacy at one of the world’s major healthcare organizations.
When Securing Your Applications, Seeing Is Believing
While the cloud is amazing, a worrying lack of visibility goes along with it. Keep that in mind as you develop your security approach.
CISO Security ‘Portfolios’ Vs. Reporting Structures
Organizational structure is a tool for driving action. Worrying about your boss’s title won’t help you as much as a better communication framework.
Anatomy Of A Social Media Attack
Finding and addressing Twitter and Facebook threats requires a thorough understanding of how they’re accomplished.
Darknet: Where Your Stolen Identity Goes to Live
Almost everything is available on the Darknet -- drugs, weapons, and child pornography -- but where it really excels is as an educational channel for beginning identity thieves.
How Diversity Can Bridge The Talent Gap
Women and minorities in the security industry share some hard truths about the security industry’s hiring traditions and practices.
5 Strategies For Enhancing Targeted Security Monitoring
These examples will help you improve early incident detection results.
User Ed: Patching People Vs Vulns
How infosec can combine and adapt security education and security defenses to the way users actually do their jobs.
Security Must Become Driving Force For Auto Industry
Digital security hasn’t kept pace in this always-connected era. Is infosec up to the challenge?
Dark Reading Radio: What Keeps IT Security Pros Awake at Night
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion with (ISC)² Chief Exec David Shearer on the most worrisome infosec trends and challenges.
Substantially Above Par: DR Cartoon Caption Contest Winners
Critical vulnerabilities, links & virtual reality. And the winner is...
Security Portfolios: A Different Approach To Leadership
How grounding a conversation around a well-organized list of controls and their goals can help everyone be, literally, on the same page.
What The TSA Teaches Us About IP Protection
Data loss prevention solutions are no longer effective. Today’s security teams have to keep context and human data in mind, as the TSA does.
Theory Vs Practice: Getting The Most Out Of Infosec
Why being practical and operationally minded is the only way to build a successful security program.
Building A Detection Strategy With The Right Metrics
The tools used in detecting intrusions can lead to an overwhelming number of alerts, but they’re a vital part of security.
Data Protection From The Inside Out
Organizations must make fundamental changes in the way they approach data protection.
Best Of Black Hat Innovation Awards: And The Winners Are…
Three companies and leaders who think differently about security: Deep Instinct, most innovative startup; Vectra, most innovative emerging company; Paul Vixie, most innovative thought leader.
Dark Reading Radio at Black Hat 2016: 2 Shows, 4 #BHUSA Presenters
Even if you can't physically be at Black Hat USA 2016, Dark Reading offers a virtual alternative to engage with presenters about hot show topics and trends.
3 Steps Towards Building Cyber Resilience Into Critical Infrastructure
The integration of asset management, incident response processes and education is critical to improving the industrial control system cybersecurity landscape.
Crypto Malware: Responding To Machine-Timescale Breaches
The game has changed again with hackers’ ability to steal your data at record speeds and cripple your organization before the first alert.
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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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