Five Eyes Group’s Calls for Encryption Back Doors is a Shot Across Tech Industry’s Bow
During a keynote address at the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco, Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer for Microsoft made no bones how he felt about the prospect of law enforcement having the ability to pry into the private data locked in cell phones. "The path to hell ... Read More
Options Abound for Cyber Security Jobseekers, but Finding the Right Fit Takes Work
We've all heard the familiar refrain any time cyber security professionals gather: There aren't enough qualified security employees to fill the glut of available positions. In fact, Forbes recently went so far as to label this shortage of security workers a crisis. The author of the Forbes piece, Brian NeSmith, ... Read More
In the Financial Services Industry, the Time for a Fresh Approach to Cyber Security is Now
Back in the Old West, banks were the whipping boys of criminals. Anyone with a gun and an eye for ill-gotten gain would target banks because that's where all the money was, and there weren't a whole lot of safeguards preventing someone from walking into the town branch and holding ... Read More
How A.I is Shaking the Foundations of Cybersecurity
The crossroads are coming faster than ever for the world of cybersecurity. Information security leaders have had to do a lot of adapting over the past decade. They've shifted from an emphasis on protecting the perimeter of the network to defending access points. They've turned a large portion of their ... Read More
Sports and Health/Fitness Retailers Find Themselves in the Cyber Security Firing Line
As cyber security breaches have become an unavoidable part of doing business in the 21st century, hackers have at times appeared to be working through various categories of companies one at a time. Back in 2013 and 2014, it was big box retailers like Target and Home Depot who started ... Read More
C-Suite Cyber Security Awareness May Be the Key to Taking a Bite Out of Breaches
No matter how many breaches we read about, how many cautions we hear, or how many reminders we get about the importance of round-the-clock diligence, cyber security continues to slip through the cracks as a business priority too often. Too often, this chink in the armor comes down to a ... Read More
From Top to Bottom, State of Cyber Security in Healthcare is a National Concern
Given the sensitive nature of healthcare information, and the fact that we have an overarching regulation, HIPAA, that dictates how that data is handled, it would seem safe to assume that cyber security has been established as an ongoing top priority. Yeah, well, about that…it seems that healthcare continues to ... Read More
Hold On For Your Life: GDPR Has Landed and is Making its Impact Felt Quickly
Anyone who attended this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco can attest to the prominent portion of mindshare that security and privacy practitioners were devoting at that time to the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect last month. GDPR, which at its essence gives consumers ... Read More
Report: Many Companies Taking Status Quo Approach to Cyber Security at Their Own Peril
At the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, attendees heard a lot of recognition that the cyber security landscape is in flux. A new generation of technologies that generate unprecedented amounts of data has changed the playing field, as has the rise of artificial intelligence. This has resulted not just ... Read More
