Cryptojackers and eavesdroppers are continuing to exploit a one-time zero-day flaw in unpatched MikroTik routers, despite a patch that's been available for six months as well as the actions of a vigilante "gray hat" hacker who's forcibly "fixed" 100,000 vulnerable routers.
An analysis of attacks against cryptocurrency exchanges over nearly two years shows hackers have inflicted $882 million in damages, according to the Russian security firm Group-IB. The tally of losses is likely to grow next year, the company warns.
Organizations can effectively rely on managed security services providers to take care of many tasks, but certain strategic security functions must be handled in-house, says Sid Deshpande, research director at Gartner.
The Pentagon is warning that a data breach at a third-party travel management service provider exposed records for an estimated 30,000 civilian and military personnel. The breach alert follows a recent GAO report warning of serious cybersecurity shortcomings in U.S. weapon systems.
With so much focus on endpoint security, it's important not to overlook the importance of network-level security controls, says Lawrence Orans, research vice president at Gartner.
Building Security in Maturity Model, BSIMM: What is it and How Your Organization Can Leverage the Data
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Benchmarking your software security initiative can tell you if you are keeping pace with your peers, or if you should accelerate your efforts to rise above the competition. The results of a benchmarking assessment can help you identify new security strategies and prioritize scarce resources to be most effective....
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Organizations are increasing their security budgets, yet security struggles persist. Enterprise security teams are struggling to adapt skill sets, tools and controls at the pace of digital transformation happening in their organizations.
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Machine learning could be a breakthrough for data classification, addressing fundamental challenges and paving the way to create and enforce automated policies that can be scaled across the enterprise, says Titus CEO Jim Barkdoll.
As attackers become more adept at evading "reactive" security controls and alert mechanisms, proactively analyzing the behaviors of people and systems is critical to detecting malicious activity, says Gartner's Kelly Kavanagh.
Businesses MUST address the proliferation of mobile devices in the workplace, whether authorized or not. For every laptop, there is a mobile phone, literally doubling the attack surface for hackers to breach your business and cause harm to you and/or your customers. While protection for traditional devices has long...
It may seem silly to wonder how safe your backups are; backups are rarely
thought of as being at risk. It stems back to a time when backups were on
tape - a medium that would be tough for even skilled developers to hack. But
today's backups are stored (whether on-premises or in the cloud) on disk or,
more...
Although the terms "backup" and "archiving" are sometimes used
interchangeably, they refer to two completely different processes. Both deal
with long-term data storage, yes, but that is where the similarities end.
Backups are designed to provide an organization with a way of recovering its
data following some sort...
At RSA Conference 2018 Asia Pacific & Japan, Information Security Media Group conducted dozens of video interviews with industry thought leaders. Here are the highlights.
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