When managing an enterprise security platform, visibility into the innerworkings of all the security tools and
processes present in the environment is critical, but it's often the last measure put in place, if at all. This lack of
visibility makes it difficult to ensure systems operate correctly and increases the...
Despite everything you've spent on data-centric security, there still is a security gap that is burgeoning at an alarming rate when it comes to protecting sensitive data. The growing complexity of users outside your organisation, methods of sharing information, and the number of devices data reside on are continually...
IoT and OT risks are well publicized. But too often they are discussed in a consumer context. Tom Dolan of ForeScout Technologies wants to raise these topics in terms of enterprise risks - and how to mitigate them.
WhatsApp has agreed to appoint a grievance officer for India who will handle complaints about fake news. The nation's government had demanded the action in the wake of recent mob violence triggered by fake news spread on the social media platform. But will the appointment have a significant impact?
The sheer volume of data justifies the need for analytics software. It isn't realistic to expect human analysts to visually examine multiple streams of video data in real time. In addition to efficient storage and retrieval processes, police departments need sophisticated video analytics to sort through the footage...
Applications are consistently amongst the top attack targets for bad actors, and our goal is to provide comprehensive protection where it is needed most. WAFs have evolved into tools that can greatly reduce the risk of an application breach. Today's top-performing WAFs are continually updated and offer a variety of...
The kill chain's evolution, geopolitical tensions, and the digitization of industries have all contributed to the staggering rise of the cybercrime economy.
Tom Kellermann, current chief cybersecurity officer at Carbon Black and former World Bank Treasury deputy CISO, surveyed 40 of the world's top financial...
Many enterprises provide third-party remote application access in the same ways they did 20 years ago. From occasional access for a third-party contractor to the complete outsourcing of services, enterprises are opening their networks through VPNs, proxies, and remote desktops technologies.
However, two key...
Identity management is becoming increasingly important in this era where massive data breaches and credential harvesting are a regular occurrence. To make matters worse, mobility and cloud have increased the attack surface. Businesses that have unreasonable expectations from users on access hygiene and rely on...
Experian is transforming from a credit reporting agency to a customer-driven data services company, and at the heart of all its services lies the need for secure, user-friendly authentication at every stage of the employee and customer experience. That's no small task, and they had to start with an established...
File-less malware is a huge security challenge for organizations today, and traditional email security controls aren't sufficient to meet the challenge. It's time for a new approach email security.
The big issue is: The malicious payloads shift so much. It's really easy to do 100 variants of the same malicious...
Businesses across the UK and Europe spend billions each year on identity and access management, but almost all of this money is spent on protecting the digital identities of humans - usernames and passwords.
On the other hand, businesses spend almost nothing on protecting machine identities, even though our entire...
The definition of "machine" is undergoing radical change. The number and type of physical devices on enterprise networks has been rising rapidly throughout Europe and the UK, but this is outstripped by the number of applications and services they host.
At the same time, cloud adoption has spawned a tidal wave of...
Even though SSH keys are the credentials that provide the most privileged access in an organisation (including root-level privileges), they are routinely untracked, unmanaged and unmonitored. This guide provides four steps to protect and take control of your SSH keys to minimise your risk of intrusion.
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A recently published survey of more than 400 security professionals in the UK, Germany and the US measured how well their organizations implemented security controls for SSH keys. The results show that most organizations are underprepared to protect against SSH-based attacks, with fewer than half following industry...
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