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Enterprise IT has been completely transformed by SaaS the past decade. Okta last week published a report which showed that the largest companies now use 175 apps, a doubling over the past few years. More professionals have more tools to do their jobs than ever before. It’s an explosion of creativity and expressiveness and operational […] Continue reading Best practices as a service is a key investment theme to watch in 2021
The shopping season which begins on Black Friday rolling over to Cyber Monday, is actually one of the most critical times for online retailers. During this period promotions are offered, new products are launched, and the shopping websites themselves i… Continue reading How Black Friday and Cyber Monday Can Go From a Retailer’s Dream Into a CiSO’s Worst Nightmare
Significant strides have been made since the campaign cybersecurity debacle in 2016 that led to the disclosure of a trove of emails by Wikileaks that arguably cost Hillary Clinton the U.S. presidential election, according to a report published this we… Continue reading Democratic Presidential Campaigns Learn Cybersecurity Lesson
Political parties in Europe and the U.S. have cybersecurity practices that fail to meet basic standards, leaving them vulnerable to hackers and foreign influence operations with elections rapidly approaching, according to security researchers. An assessment of 29 political parties in 11 countries released Tuesday by SecurityScorecard found that a party in France relies on end-of-life technology that has not had a security update in four to five months, for example. There also is a strain of malicious software emanating from an IP address assigned to an economic subcommittee of the European Union in Brussels right now, SecurityScorecard’s Director of Threat Intelligence, Paul Gagliardi, tells CyberScoop. And while American political parties tend to fare better than European political parties, according to the report, the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee still have weak spots. Malware in the EU The details of the report arrive just as the European Parliament elections kick off Thursday. The malware SecurityScorecard […]
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For a moment, look past Russian cybercriminals, North Korean cryptocurrency scams and the idea that election infrastructure used by democracies around the world lacks meaningful digital safeguards. While those issues are significant, people in charge of information security at large U.S. companies spend the majority of their time assessing whether their firm is likely to experience a data breach that begins outside of their own proprietary network. That assessment goes beyond the deluge of obfuscated code, technical jargon or marketing pitches. It’s rooted in crunching numbers in Excel spreadsheets and other measuring strategies that can quantify whether their partners and vendors are prepared to keep hackers out. Security bosses at Fortune 500 companies traditionally have compelled partners to answer monotonous questionnaires about their cyber readiness. Private sector surveys, including some obtained by CyberScoop, typically include hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of arcane questions meant to elicit information about how firms use encryption, require […]
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While most people probably would not think of New York as a hotbed for enterprise startups of any kind, it is actually quite active. When you stop to consider that the world’s biggest banks and financial services companies are located there, it would certainly make sense for security startups to concentrate on such a huge […] Continue reading In the NYC enterprise startup scene, security is job one
An unsecured Amazon Web Services bucket holding personal information and scans of IDs of some 119,000 US and international citizens has been found sitting online by Kromtech security researcher earlier this month. The stored data had been stockpiled by… Continue reading Scanned IDs of 119,000 FedEx customers exposed online