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As more and more people remain at home and work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of them have been forced to use one or many video and audio conferencing applications out of necessity. For the same reason, many companies have had to quickly… Continue reading Remote work and web conferencing: Security and privacy considerations
Finding skilled cybersecurity professionals to fill organizations’ increasing needs is becoming more difficult by the day due to the wide (and widening) cybersecurity workforce skills gap. So, how can organizations make the hiring process less pa… Continue reading Should you hire a specialized cybersecurity recruiter?
Cybersecurity is one of the most daunting challenges enterprises will face in 2020. According to IBM’s 2019 Cost of a Data Breach report, the average cost of a data breach in the U.S. is $8.19 million, with companies averaging 206 days to identif… Continue reading Debunking vulnerability management myths for a safer enterprise
IoT products offer many conveniences but there are massive amounts of data being transferred to and from these services vulnerable to attack if left unsecured. In this podcast, Mike Nelson, Vice President of IoT Security at DigiCert, talks about the gr… Continue reading Why we need to secure IoT connections sooner than later
When it comes to breaches, there are no big fish, small fish, or hiding spots. Almost every type of organization – including yours – has critical personally identifiable information (PII) stored. Storing PII makes you a target regardless of… Continue reading Four ways to prevent data breaches
Despite often repeated advice of using unique passwords for online accounts – or at least the most critical ones – password reuse continues to be rampant. And, according to breach discovery firm SpyCloud, employees of the Fortune 1000 are j… Continue reading Password vulnerability at Fortune 1000 companies
Since the advent of the public cloud as a viable alternative to on-premise systems, CIOs and CISOs have been citing security as one of the top concerns when it comes to making the switch. While most of their worries have abated over the years, some rem… Continue reading Cloud-native security considerations for critical enterprise workloads
“Elite” hackers have tried – and failed – to breach computer systems and networks of the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this month, Reuters reported on Monday. In fact, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO … Continue reading Hackers try to breach WHO, other COVID-19-fighting orgs
Human beings are poor judges of risk. For example, we perceive the risk of air travel to be higher than it actually is after a fatal aviation-related accident happens. We also tend to dismiss risks just because we don’t see a tangible negative im… Continue reading What’s preventing organizations from making pragmatic security decisions?
Python backdoor attacks are increasingly common. Iran, for example, used a MechaFlounder Python backdoor attack against Turkey last year. Scripting attacks are nearly as common as malware-based attacks in the United States and, according to the most re… Continue reading Python backdoor attacks and how to prevent them