Collaborate Disseminate
The more the threat landscape diversifies and changes, the more it stays the same. Some of the oldest tactics in cybercriminals’ playbooks remain the most prevalent and successful. In 2018, as in years past, the vast majority of data breaches we… Continue reading Why Are Phishing Attacks Still So Effective?
When cloud-based services first became popular more than a decade ago, business leaders embraced their versatility, scalability and predictable costs, but many did so with a sense of unease: was their valuable data truly safe when housed in an offsite… Continue reading Keeping Your Data and Applications Safe in the Cloud
As we talked about in last week’s post, the PCI Data Security Standard has established a near-universal set of technical and operational requirements to which all businesses that process credit card transactions must adhere. Accepting card-based… Continue reading Does PCI Compliance Equal Security?
PCI DSS Basics: What Leaders Need to Know When You Required to Comply to PCI DSS The global hospitality industry has long been an attractive target for cybercriminals trying to pilfer credit card data. Hotels and restaurants were among the first busin… Continue reading PCI DSS Basics
Keeping Your Hospitality Business Safe from PoSeidon Malware POS compromise remains alarmingly prevalent among hotel businesses, restaurants and retailers today. Although security breaches involving point-of-sale terminals received a great deal of mai… Continue reading PoSeidon Malware
2017 was a peak year for data breaches. In terms of both size (number of records compromised) and frequency of attacks, 2017 stands among the worst years in history, with 2,600,968,280 records breached in more than 1,765 individual incidents, accordin… Continue reading 3 Key Lessons That Hospitality Industry Leaders Must Learn from the Sabre Reservation System Hack
What is a Kill Chain? The term “kill chain” was originally used in the military. In October 1996, after the first Gulf War, General John Jumper formalized the methods necessary to compress the time it takes to find and kill the enemy on th… Continue reading The Cyber Kill Chain: What You Need to Know
As we discussed in last week’s blog post, businesses are paying more than ever before for cybersecurity solutions, and market forecasters predict that this spending will only increase in years to come. Every time a large-scale attack gets media … Continue reading ARE YOU GETTING REAL VALUE FOR WHAT YOU’RE SPENDING ON CYBERSECURITY SOLUTIONS? (PART TWO)
Cybersecurity spending today is at all-time high, and is poised for further growth. But cybercriminal activity—attacks, breaches and resulting damages—has also peaked. CEOs, CIOs, and budget-conscious investors are all asking: are the avai… Continue reading Are You Getting Real Value for What You’re Spending on Cybersecurity Solutions? (Part One)
Pharmaceutical executives are used to thinking of their products as drugs or medicines—molecular compounds used to treat or cure diseases, to aid in diagnosing them, to prevent their occurrence, or to lessen their severity. Today’s consume… Continue reading Pharmaceutical Companies Face Unique Cybersecurity Challenges While Navigating Digital Transformation