Data exfiltration describes the unauthorized transfer of data signifying a data breach. The data theft occurs during dwell time, the gap between when your network is infected and when the infection is detected. The Internet is evolving and unfortunately, cyber criminals are changing their tactics to exploit the...
Financial services firms are now facing an unprecedented level of cybersecurity threats while also seeing increased information volume and a jittery global financial climate. Unfortunately, for many firms, managing the security of information has existed as a specialized domain that, while protecting specific systems,...
What Gartner calls "the new threat landscape" is more than just a clever metaphor, it describes a new era of cyber threats aimed at outmaneuvering any security solutions that get in their way. As today's highly publicized data breaches illustrate, the threats launched by these sophisticated cyber criminals seem to be...
After nearly 2½ months on the job, federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott was reluctant to offer Congress a detailed assessment of the quality of agencies' information security until reviewing results of pending "CyberStat" reviews.
As the May 5 resumption of a hearing to consider the FTC's security case against LabMD nears, the company has launched two more legal maneuvers, including yet another motion to dismiss the case.
BitSight Technologies conducted research on breached organizations and how they were impacted by botnets. The results are eye-opening, says CTO Stephen Boyer, offering insights from this study.
Experts like Gartner tell us we need layered cyber defenses that include next-generation firewalls (NGFW) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) to identify and stop attacks at the gate combined with defenses to identify and help remediate successful breaches before they can spread. In fact, the Gartner adaptive...
Some of the most serious threats networks face today are "bots," remotely controlled robotic programs that strike in many different ways and deliver destructive payloads, self propagating to infect more and more systems and eventually forming a "botnet."
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Businesses have relied on endpoint defenses like anti-virus software for protection against malware. But while endpoint defenses are necessary, the headlines show they are not sufficient. Rather than relying on endpoint security alone, Gartner recommends businesses balance their investment across all four phases of...
When you are hacked, every second matters. It's critical to detect and stop the attack before serious damage is done to your business. HP TippingPoint Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) examines every packet of network traffic at wire speeds to detect and block attacks.
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The security industry has thousands of researchers looking for vulnerabilities in the software you use - HP Security Research alone has more than 3000. But how do you apply the security intelligence they develop to the job of protecting your network?
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Federal regulators have hit a small Denver pharmacy with a $125,000 penalty for a 2012 breach involving improper disposal of paper patient records. It's the second such HIPAA-related penalty within a year tied to improper records dumping.
A report that Russian hackers read President Obama's email correspondence raises further questions about White House cybersecurity, say IT security experts, who offer insights on protecting White House systems.
SIEM systems were orginally intended for compliance and log management. Later they were used to detect and investigate attacks. However, log-centric SIEMs have several flaws that make it difficult to detect successful attacks and even more difficult to investigate them. Log-centric SIEMs give security personnel some...
The Department of Defense has unveiled an updated cybersecurity strategy that officially acknowledges for the first time that the U.S. military is willing to use cyberwarfare to defend U.S. interests against cyber-enemies.
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