3 Payloads in Healthcare Data Breaches

The news is full of a variety of attacks on healthcare data, ranging from ransomware attacks on small clinics and large hospitals to the massive data theft from the behemoth Veteran’s Administration and myriad threats in between. But as is the case wi… Continue reading 3 Payloads in Healthcare Data Breaches

3 Tips in Training Machine Learning for Security Work

If you’ve been evaluating new security tools, you’ve undoubtedly heard machine learning (ML) touted many times. It is fast becoming the backbone of all modern software, security systems included. Thus, it appears that resistance is futile, as some ver… Continue reading 3 Tips in Training Machine Learning for Security Work

6 Ways Machine Learning Can Help with Security

If you were to believe all the marketing buzz about machine learning, you would think it the answer to all security teams’ prayers. But it isn’t. At least not yet. Even so, machine learning is pretty powerful tech and there are places it can be helpfu… Continue reading 6 Ways Machine Learning Can Help with Security

Best of 2018: 6 Tricky Obstacles Security Teams Face in GDPR Compliance

As we close out 2018, we at Security Boulevard wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes eff… Continue reading Best of 2018: 6 Tricky Obstacles Security Teams Face in GDPR Compliance

Stealing Infrastructure: Cryptomining Attacks on Container Environments

Usually the target is data and the goal is theft. But thieves are expanding their horizons and aiming to cash in elsewhere. A new target recently exposed by researchers at Aqua Research is computing resources: The team says containers are being command… Continue reading Stealing Infrastructure: Cryptomining Attacks on Container Environments

What Security Pros Need to Know About Machine Learning in the Year Ahead

If you are to believe the marketing hype, artificial intelligence (AI) is a superhuman security entity that far supersedes your puny, mortal skills. But that’s just swill for the bean counters who likely wish they could dump payroll as a line item from… Continue reading What Security Pros Need to Know About Machine Learning in the Year Ahead

Army to Commission Civilians as Cyber Officers

The U.S. Army has announced its pilot program to directly commission civilians as cyber operations officers is close to launching. Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of U.S. Army Cyber Command, said the pilot program was approved Oct. 27 and the Army wi… Continue reading Army to Commission Civilians as Cyber Officers

How CISOs Can Successfully Talk Security to CEOs

It would be funny, if it were not so frustrating, that two individuals so intent on managing risk don’t understand one another. But that is the fundamental problem between business and security leaders. The gap is so huge that bridging it may seem near… Continue reading How CISOs Can Successfully Talk Security to CEOs

7 Strategies to Secure Enterprise IoT

The internet of things (IoT) is opening a whole new world of possibilities. Unfortunately, it also is creating a whole new world of threats too, such as ransomware of things (RoT). Here are seven things enterprises can do to better secure their IoT. Kn… Continue reading 7 Strategies to Secure Enterprise IoT

Cybersecurity and Machine Learning/AI: What’s the Real Impact?

Will AI render human analysts obsolete, or be an extension that helps them be more effective? How about bad guys? Are we headed for an AI showdown? Here’s the lay of the land in AI territory now. The buzz on artificial intelligence (AI) is deafening. Depending on who is hawking what, AI is either vastly..

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