State and local governments face a rising tide of ransomware attacks resulting in costly service and productivity disruptions. Often, these attacks involve compromised user credentials. Public agents must rethink their approach to controlling who or what can access IT resources and under which circumstances.
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Today's digitally connected operations present complex challenges for organizations that want to accelerate innovation and drive business objectives while ensuring they are managing their increasing digital risk. Organizations must bring together security and risk management leaders and teams to reduce the business...
As a security leaders, too often you are brought to the table after a digital transformation project has been initiated, so you are forced to take a reactive position. But Adam Bosnian of CyberArk sees an important, proactive role for security. And a good start is by ensuring privileged access management is a key...
The EU's second Payments Services Directive is alive and well. And although PSD2's Regulatory Technical Standards have technically been in place since September of this year, they won't actually be actively enforced or supervised for roughly one year. But where are financial institutions now re: compliance and...
Companies are outsourcing cyber security infrastructure and expertise as budget and talent limit the abilities of IT departments. Nucleus found that the SIEM capabilities of IBM QRadar on Cloud (QRoC) helped customers realize value and maintain agility as their security and business needs change.
Attackers are becoming more dangerous and as the regulatory compliance environment continuously evolves, basic tools just can't keep up. Ask yourself these 5 critical questions before upgrading to a SIEM solution.
Is automation making more promises than it can keep?
Automation is still on the upward hype-cycle, according to Garner's 2019 Hype Cycle for Threat-Facing Technologies, which means that security teams too often expect stellar results from automation solutions with little expert oversight. The reality is the...
As an IT or OT security leader, you must be able to communicate cybersecurity compliance, risk posture, and Return on Security Investment (ROSI) to management. Hundreds of these security leaders have already made the transition to an integrated risk management approach to cyber program management, reconfiguring the...
11 Best Practices to Minimize Risk and Protect Your Data
By now, we are all too aware of the consequences of a data breach:
Brand damage
Loss of customer confidence
Potentially costly litigation
Regulatory fines
However, most organizations are not as familiar with how to prevent these attacks. They still spend...
Uncover six security issues that can ruin any CISO's day, and learn how to prevent them.
CISO Alex is having a very bad day. His company's new app has critical vulnerabilities - a lot of them - and Alex has to get them all fixed before the app debuts at the launch party tonight. Can he beat the clock - and the...
Every chief information security officer (CISO) is unique. They each have varying modes of operation that are influenced by long and distinguished careers. To understand CISO strategies and approaches, we decided to conduct a study. We gathered data in a series of extended in-person interviews with 25 CISOs with the...
Numerous regulations and standards have been introduced globally to help curtail online fraud. What makes EMV 3-D Secure (also sometimes referred to as 3-D Secure 2.0) stand out? The big differentiator with EMV 3DS in emerging regulations and standards is that it's tied to law - not just recommendations.
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Multifactor authentication is gaining traction - but it also is causing additional user friction when deployed poorly. No matter whose research you cite, a startling high percentage of recent breaches are the result of stolen or weak credentials. Yet, enterprises still struggle to take advantage of multifactor...
Securing user accounts from both bots and human attackers has become one of the most fundamental challenges of delivering modern applications and services. Attackers continuously develop ever more sophisticated techniques for taking over user accounts.
Aggressive security policies lead to false positives and...
Cloud solutions, the mobile workforce, the skills gap - these are among the security impacts that don't get enough attention when discussing digital transformation.
Download this exclusive eBook on digital transformation and learn about:
Security topics that don't get enough attention;
New security gaps created...
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