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Fraud in The Mobile Era: A Hacker's Delight

As mobile devices eclipse computers and laptops as the preferred method of going online, fraudsters have followed users, porting their modus operandi -account takeover, social engineering, and malware based remote control attacks - to the mobile arena. Thus, hackers have many more opportunities to perpetrate fraud and...

Making the Case for Continuous Authentication: Why 2FA is Not Secure Enough to Combat Online Fraud

Most organizations that enable users to perform online transactions have implemented security measures to address fraud. Currently, one of the most common safeguards used in a wide array of products/services is two-factor authentication (2FA). In recent years, 2FA has become employed by global tech leaders like...

Cybercrime Projected to Exceed $2 Billion by 2019: What You Need to Know

As defense stategies become stronger year after year, it seems as though the prevalence of malware is growing proportionately, projected to exceed $2 trillion by 2019 - a four-fold increase in the cost of security breaches over 2015.Posing a threat to every industry, profession, and company, malware not only...

Top 11 Automated Malware Analysis Providers Ranked by Forrester

Despite significant investments in the signature-based defenses of today's network, email and endpoint security solutions, since 2010, these solutions have been ineffective against the sheer volume of evolving malware. Security and risk professionals have turned to automated malware analysis (AMA) for help. These...

Testing the Top 9 Market Leaders in Breach Detection: How They Measure Up

As the New Year unfolds, finding a breach prevention provider will be critical in order to safeguard an organization's assets. NSS Labs subjected nine cybersecurity market leaders to comprehensive, rigorous testing to determine how well each product handled current advanced threats and attack methods. All vendor...

Cybersecurity: The New Metrics

"How secure are we?" That's one of the most common questions asked by boards and senior managers. But security and technology leaders do not always have ready answers, says Jacob Olcott of BitSight Technologies. Are they even using the right security metrics? In an interview about cybersecurity metrics, Olcott...

What's Required in Your Next Generation IPS Solution?

The threat landscape certainly has changed in recent years. But can you say the same about the traditional intrusion prevention system."The biggest problem with IPSs today is that organizations are trying to fight today's threats with yesterday's solutions," says Bertone, who serves as CTO of Fidelis Cybersecurity....

How to Talk to Your Boss About Cybersecurity (Even if They Don't Know What That Means)

Talking to your boss about cybersecurity is vital, yet we often get sidetracked by day-to-day activities and never take the time to sit down and get on the same page...or simply because it can be very daunting to try to make a case for something that your boss doesn't really understand. Where do you even begin and...

How to Operationalize Cyber Risk Management

While companies spend huge sums of money every year to maintain a security perimeter designed to fend off cyber and insider threats, daily reports of new data breaches are raising doubts about the effectiveness of these investments. One of the biggest challenges in cyber security today is how to manage the volume,...

How Effective Are Your Current Anti-Malware Tools for Keeping Endpoints Secure?

More than half of surveyed security leaders rate their organizations' current anti-malware protection above average or superior. And yet ... 54 percent say their organizations have experienced ransomware in the past year; 25 percent say they struggle with threat detection; 51 percent say their current anti-virus...

'But I Was Compliant...' - Investing in Security for a Compliant Business

It's a story you'll watch unfold time and time again. The breach. The headlines. The confusion. The public apologies. The finger-pointing. And it's often followed by some form of the following statement: "But I was compliant." Compliance is never enough. The challenges are understandable, but taking the path of least...

Four Top Cyber Crime Trends

This report from IBM Emergency Response Services discusses four key trends in cybersecurity based on field experience in responding to client security incidents. In the following whitepaper, you will learn about: Onion-layered security incidents on the rise The year of ransomware Malicious insiders on the...

Mindset Adjustment: From IT Defense to Risk Management Solutions

Information security is in the midst of a major shift. What had been a purely technical, defensive, IT problem is now a whole-organization risk management problem. As the industry undergoes this wholesale shift in mindset, enterprises are struggling to catch up. Gone are the days of installing a few defensive...

The Changing Role of Technology within the Healthcare Sector

Cybercriminals have become dangerously savvy at leveraging the seismic technology changes occurring in the healthcare sector in order to get their hands on sensitive patient data. Medical records are more lucrative for attackers than almost any other targeted information, leaving the healthcare industry in the...

Breached: How Your Data Can Be Put at Risk

Breaches like the Target breach of 2013 and the recent "Heartbleed" bug may give you the impression that breaches are just an electronic problem but they aren't. It's impossible for you to personally protect your data everywhere. Comprehensive identity theft protection from LifeLock helps safeguard your finances,...