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The Dyn Attack – How IoT Can Take Down the “Global Information Grid” Back Bone (Part I)

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Authored by Nick Murray and Peter Tran Imagine that you are driving through downtown New York City (NYC) and only relying on your GPS for directions. All of a sudden, the GPS stops working and you are stuck in mid-town Manhattan traffic during rush hour. If you have ever tried to drive in NYC, you…

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Recognizing and Combating Cybercrime: A Virtual Chat

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The goal of cybercrime doesn’t change, but the tactics do.  This week’s theme for National Cyber Security Awareness Month is Recognizing and Combating Cybercrime.  One of the questions to be addressed is: What are cybercriminals looking to gain from attacks? With the impact of cybercrime costing the global economy about $445 billion in 2016, which is more than the market…

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Cybersecurity – Let’s Make It A Chick Thing

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Time flies when you’re having fun fighting cybercriminals – we are already more than halfway through October and into the third week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This week’s theme is Recognizing and Combating Cybercrime, which is quite literally RSA’s raison d’etre. The focus this week is on the collaborative nature of fighting cybercrime as well…

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Why a Cyber Risk Assessment Is Essential for M&A Due Diligence

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According to J.P. Morgan, the global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market amounted to $5 trillion in 2015 and continues to show strong levels of growth. When it comes to M&A, the due diligence process involves investigating the health of another business before engaging in any sort of transaction. This process will take many factors into account,…

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Identity and Access Management Strategies: IAM Spending to Increase in Europe

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Businesses around the world recognize that it’s crucial to take the necessary precautions to verify identities and manage digital credentials when conducting business online. In fact, a recent study by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) found that 93% of 200 polled European businesses claimed that they planned to maintain or increase their identity and access management…

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Pulley Lamp Stands Up With You

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Standing desks are either the best thing since sliced bread, or the fastest way to make your legs tired and get you ridiculed by your coworkers in the bargain. This leads some folks to compromise and make standing desks that can be re-lowered to sitting height when you need to take a break. But now the distance from your desktop to the light source that illuminates it has changed. We can’t have that!

[John Culbertson] came up with a very elegant solution to the “problem”. He made lights that are suspended on pulleys that raise and lower with the desk …read more

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Where Is My Cybersecurity Rosetta Stone?

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This week’s theme for National Cyber Security Awareness Month is “Cyber from the Break Room to the Board Room.” Communication, like anything else worth getting better at, takes practice. Sometimes it takes planning to know what we want to say and how we want to say it. We also need to anticipate who our audience is…

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Six Steps For Cybercrime Survival

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While recently cleaning my grandfather’s attic, I came across an old Federal Civil Defense Administration brochure titled “Six Steps to Survival – If an enemy attacked today would you know what to do?”  In our modern times, many of us are being attacked on a daily basis by cybercriminals. As such, do you know what…

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