Cyber Scams to Beware of at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Are you planning to cheer on your country’s athletes in-person at the Summer Olympics in Rio and need some discounted tickets? Or maybe you can’t afford to actually travel there, but would love to win a ticket lottery that would increase your chances of doing so? Or maybe you’re not planning to attend at all…

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Part 4: Fundamentals of the Game – There is no intelligence without data

After having identified the set of fundamental skills needed to set up a successful SOC, highlighted the importance of the alignment between SOC and business goals, and  understood how people, processes, and technology must work together for a SOC to be successful, we now investigate the next SOC fundamental skill: focus on data through visibility…

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Cybersecurity’s Poverty Gap

As we pass the halfway point of 2016, the United States Presidential election process is in full swing. Candidates continue to make the case for why their worldview is in the best interests of the nation. Perhaps no other topic polarizes the candidates and receives more prominence in this context than wealth inequality. Within cybersecurity,…

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Enter at Your Own Risk: The Perils of Livestreaming Content

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, not even on the Internet. But if you do decide to splurge, new research finds your lack of willpower may come with a side order of malware. In this case, that free lunch actually refers to websites that offer free livestreaming of things like sporting events, concerts, and so on. Turns…

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Great Things Come in 3s – EMC (RSA) Positioned in Leader’s Quadrant in Three Gartner Magic Quadrants

We have all heard the adage that great things come in threes. Stooges. Pigs. Blind Mice. The list goes on and on. I have am very pleased to announce another thrilling combination of three – Gartner Magic Quadrants. EMC (RSA) has been positioned in the leader’s quadrant in three Gartner Magic Quadrants: Operational Risk Management,…

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Identifying Fraud Faster with Intelligence Feeds – Web Threat Detection v6

Online fraud remains as much a part of digital life as URLs. Fraudsters are constantly devising new ways to separate consumers from their money, login credentials, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), healthcare data and anything else that can be monetized. Even more, they are doing it with speed and sophistication, but most damaging, they do it…

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Privacy and the Smart Grid

Although much of the focus in the SPARKS project, for which I’m the technical director, has been on cybersecurity’s role in minimizing the risks and costs of power disruption, the project has also been concerned with identifying and mitigating risks to privacy that may be entailed by the deployment of Smart Grid.  One of the…

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Privacy and the Smart Grid

Although much of the focus in the SPARKS project, for which I’m the technical director, has been on cybersecurity’s role in minimizing the risks and costs of power disruption, the project has also been concerned with identifying and mitigating risks to privacy that may be entailed by the deployment of Smart Grid.  One of the…

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