Collaborate Disseminate
March 17, 2021 was a milestone in the war on illegal robocalls. The FCC levied a $225 million fine — the largest in its history — on a telemarketer for making 1 billion illegal robocalls. On the same day, the FCC launched its Robocall Response Team, wh… Continue reading How businesses can protect their brands and bottom lines against damage from illegal robocalls
Nearly 30 percent of people who contact the ITRC are victims of more than one identity crime. Their latest study covers the 36 months from 2018-2020 and goes beyond the known financial implications of identity crimes and explores the emotional, physica… Continue reading Identity crime victims struggling with financial, emotional and physical impacts
In the aftermath of the Colonial Pipeline attack, ISACA polled more than 1,200 members in the United States and found that 84 percent of respondents believe ransomware attacks will become more prevalent in the second half of 2021. The Colonial Pipeline… Continue reading The state of enterprise preparedness for ransomware attacks
Popular preconceptions of enterprise security and network usage are often inaccurate, according to Cato Networks. While exotic attacks and nation-states such as Russia and China grab headlines, the most prevalent enterprise cybersecurity risks in Q1 ca… Continue reading Enterprise networks vulnerable to 20-year-old exploits
Wednesday June 30, 2021 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST NERC has recently partnered with the Department of Energy (DOE) to expand the Cybersecurity Risk Information Sharing Program (CRISP) to include operational technology. The program is aimed at protecting the … Continue reading Upcoming Discussion: A Risk-Based Approach to Bridging the Energy Sector Security Gap
Constella Intelligence released the results of a survey that unlocks the behaviors and tendencies that characterize how vigilant organizations’ leaders are when it comes to reducing cyber vulnerability, allowing the industry to better understand how so… Continue reading Cybersecurity leaders lacking basic cyber hygiene
Every time you speak to a virtual assistant on your smartphone, you are talking to an artificial intelligence — an AI that can, for example, learn your taste in music and make song recommendations that improve based on your interactions. However, AI al… Continue reading How do we decide whether or not to trust AI systems?
The low code market continues to grow, increasingly finding adoption for more diverse and serious applications among enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs). The lingering question of application code security follows, as stories of securit… Continue reading A leadership guide for mitigating security risks with low code platforms
Victim losses from healthcare related eCrime in the U.S. rose by 2,473 percent during 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the nation and world, CrowdStrike reveals. Healthcare eCrime describes a scheme attempting to defraud private or governm… Continue reading Victims lose millions to healthcare related eCrime
As security professionals, we have acknowledged for over a decade that our data resides outside our network. Yet, we still talk about strategies for protecting the enterprise vs cloud infrastructure, or access management for branch offices vs remote wo… Continue reading Can zero trust kill our need to talk about locations?