A mental healthcare practice's decision to pay a ransom to have sensitive patient data unlocked illustrates the difficult choices that organizations can face when attempting to recover from a ransomware attack.
Finding out your organization has been breached can be devastating news. Knowing how to deal with an intruder that's broken through your cyber defenses can be even more challenging.
This whitepaper offers practical steps IT and security professionals should take after a cyberattack occurs. You'll receive guidance...
One of the biggest challenges to effectively stopping breaches lies in sifting through vast amounts of data to find the proverbial "needle in the haystack" — the subtle clues that indicate an attack is imminent or underway. As modern computer systems generate billions of events daily, the amount of data to...
Where to invest next: Identifying the people, processes and technology you need for an effective cybersecurity strategy
Building your organization's cybersecurity maturity doesn't happen overnight. It takes time and thought to adequately assess all the factors that go into creating and implementing an effective...
We all know about May 25 and the enforcement deadline for Europe's General Data Protection Regulation. But what impact will GDPR have on cybersecurity programs? Danny Rogers of Terbium Labs weighs in on the topic.
The attackers behind SamSam ransomware have been focusing not on infecting individuals' computers, but rather the systems of large organizations that they hope will pay for a "volume discount" - in one case, $46,000 - to decrypt all of their systems at once.
Phishing is one of the most devastating threats hitting organizations every day. It's the most dangerous and costly cyber threat across the globe. Just one successful phishing attempt against your employees provides the foothold that cyber criminals need to access your entire corporate network.
A joint study...
Employees at Mesa Systems, a residential, commercial and logistics-based transportation solutions provider, were being tricked with highly sophisticated spear phishing emails causing much confusion in the workplace and a ton of overhead for the IT Department. So what did they do?
This case study reviews how Mesa...
Your company is not alone. Phishing threatens every organization around the world, large and small. Attackers consider phishing a go-to technique to gain access to the network because it yields great success. With limited IT staff, budget constraints and employees working on any device from anywhere, keeping up with...
What are the top cybersecurity threats and trends on security experts' radar? McAfee's Raj Samani and Steve Povolny discuss Olympic Destroyer malware, cryptocurrency mining, the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal and more.
Two recent security incidents involving ransomware attacks on vendors serve as the latest reminders of the risks business associates pose to healthcare organizations. What steps should entities take to mitigate those risks?
The city of Atlanta's ransomware outbreak cleanup and response tab has hit $2.6 million after a March attack froze corporate servers, employees' PCs and resident-facing portals. Some security experts say the breach response funds would have been put to better use preventing the outbreak in the first place.
The high-profile breaches of Fortune 100 companies are the ones that get the headlines, but small and midsized businesses should not breathe any sighs of relief. They are very much still targets, says Austin Murphy of CrowdStrike. He offers cybersecurity advice to SMBs.
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Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Assessing cryptocurrencies' role in the latest ransomware and malware attacks. Plus: Facebook's revised estimate on account details accessed by Cambridge Analytica.
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