Businesses around the world are seeing an increase in malware attacks, including ransomware like CryptoLocker, Locky, and zCrypt. These attacks can result in weeks of downtime, and some of the most damaging data breaches originated with malware, including the Target breach in 2014.
A robust malware defense could...
A lack of computer security professionals in Australia made recruiting difficult. But new changes to immigration rules may really pinch the country's nascent cybersecurity industry.
Any organization that deals with credit card information must secure payment card data in accordance with PCI standards.
Merchants and service providers are required to validate compliance by assessing their environment against 12 major control categories applicable to applications and data in the data center and the...
Hybrid cloud security is a hot topic, especially with the massive growth of public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft® Azure�� and Google Cloud. With the emergence of the hybrid cloud, where workloads are deployed across physical, virtual, and cloud, security professionals are constantly being...
Advanced malware is capable of outsmarting the detection capabilities of a wide range of security tools. More than 70% of malware now includes sophisticated evasion technologies. And, to make detection even more difficult, the number of evasion methods found in each instance of malware has recently jumped from one or...
Advanced malware avoids being detected and can remain hidden for extended periods of time as it conducts complex and damaging cyberattacks. This sophisticated malware is usually designed to aggressively target anything and everything that can be monetized. How can organizations safeguard their data from these...
A recent survey of more than 300 CIOs and CISOs found that digital transformation is forcing them to rethink their cybersecurity strategies. Executives are actively revising security models to create a culture of cybersecurity and safeguard their organizations in today's continually changing business...
Bryce Austin, a former technology lead at Target during the retailer's massive November 2013 breach, says the role of the CISO needs to evolve, ensuring that cybersecurity is balanced with the overall needs of the company. He claims tying the CISO's performance to the company's revenue is the best way to do that.
It used to be that cybercriminals would blindly cast a wide net, sending millions of fraudulent emails in the hope that a few people would be tricked into handing over their personal or financial information. Today, targeted attacks are the weapon of choice: a far more lucrative tactic that uses malware purpose-built...
Hybrid clouds represent the new normal for data centers, which, in turn, warrants a new security model that needs to be grounded in an understanding about what is different about cloud infrastructure. IT and security professionals are well aware of the need to retool for this new normal.
Given strong adoption of...
The first quarter of 2017 brought with it some significant changes to the threat landscape, and we aren't talking about heavy ransomware distribution either. New threats and infection techniques have forced the security community to reconsider collection and analysis efforts.
This report takes a deep look at which...
March saw the arrival of a new, so-called "Fappening/ Celebgate" scandal, where leaked images and videos of naked celebrities found their way onto the web...prime real estate for scammers who started peddling numerous links across sites like Reddit and all social networks. Likewise in February, Fortune reported a tech...
Cyberattacks are evolving at a much faster pace than the traditional security solutions can adapt to...so we must run to catch up. Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) assist a behavioral model of threat detection in an industry-leading alternative to traditional methods of endpoint security test suites....
Ransomware and malvertising are catching security organizations flat-footed. Even groups with mature security operations are having trouble responding to the latest iteration of security threats. According to a recent report, barely one-third of global organizations feel prepared to handle these modern cyberattacks....
A recent survey found that 51 percent of respondents' current anti-virus tools have difficulty detecting advanced persistent threats (APT), and 25 percent said they struggle with threat detection. What should you do if your own organization could be included in these statistics?
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