Given that hacking is an everyday threat to most organizations, reliable security depends on understanding the exposure, weaknesses and threats that could lead to a breach in the defences, says PWC's Wouter Veugelen.
Just how prepared are Japanese entities for dealing with the risks from targeted attacks? What are the unique considerations and the maturity level? Trend Micro's Masayoshi Someya shares his perspective.
RSA Conference Asia Pacific and Japan starts July 22, and ISMG will be reporting to you from the conference floor. Here is our selection of some of the hottest sessions from the event agenda.
With so much stolen PII available to fraudsters, it's time for banks and others to move to more sophisticated forms of authentication of customers' identities. Knowledge-based authentication is no longer reliable.
The Mumbai-based SEBI has issued new guidelines to the country's stock exchanges to develop a cybersecurity and cyber resilience framework to protect the securities market from cyber-threats.
Khalid N AI Hashmi, undersecretary of cyber security at ministry of communication and information technology, says resilience and security in cyberspace are vital to Qatar's continued success and growth.,
Phishing campaigns are becoming harder to mitigate because of an uptick in spoofed websites tied to top-level domains, such as .bank, says Dave Jevans of the Anti-Phishing Working Group.
By 2018, Javelin predicts that new account fraud and account takeover will eclipse present worries about POS attacks and retail breaches. Why breached PII should be our biggest worry.
John Halamka, M.D., CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is among the expert speakers who will be offering insights at the inaugural Healthcare Information Security summit in Boston this week. See what else is on tap.
NASSCOM and DSCI have launched a cybersecurity task force to help develop India as a global R&D hub. Experts question whether the sponsoring organizations have set the right agenda for this new entity.
A new breach reported by Heartland Payment Systems won't get much attention. But this incident could be more damaging to the undisclosed number of consumers affected than was Heartland's 2008 payment card breach.
Breached dating website FriendFinder allegedly missed email warnings from security researchers that its site had been breached and customers' data was being sold on a "darknet" site. What can other businesses learn from that apparent mistake?
The Reserve Bank of India plans to set up an IT subsidiary to help banks strengthen cybersecurity. Banking and security leaders say this is a positive move toward responding to cybercrime trends.
The use of century-old laws and the lack of a data protection regime is hurting India's ability to combat cyberfraud, says independent adviser Nandkumar Saravade. What immediate steps must be taken?
Security expert Mike Canavan of Kaspersky Lab North America pinpoints several critical security steps that organizations can take to help reduce the likelihood they'll become a victim of a hacking attack.
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