The Chinese government concedes the attack on U.S. Office of Personnel Management computers emanated from China, but it contends the culprits were criminals, not individuals working for the Chinese government or military. Some experts in the United States aren't buying the Chinese government's explanation.
Target Corp. has reached a proposed $39.4 million settlement with a group of financial institutions that sued the retailer over fraud losses and expenses suffered as a result of Target's December 2013 data breach.
The advent of cloud computing is beginning to transform the way companies engage with customers, partners, and suppliers to increase flexibility and streamline operations. Cloud computing makes it much easier for the organization to implement new business services and to create new revenue opportunities much faster....
Data breaches continue to have a major financial impact on organisations, as well as on their reputations. The 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) evaluates recent breaches and vulnerabilities, and looks at how they affected organisations in multiple industries and countries. While the DBIR is full of...
The average total organisational cost of a data breach has been on the rise. In part, these costs are due to delays in breach detection, which can often take weeks to months after the initial compromise. Delays occur because security teams do not have actionable forensic data to pinpoint compromised hosts or identify...
Today, inundated with frequent headlines about high profile security breaches, cyber risk has joined
the list of concerns for business executives. Executives need to know if their organisation is managing cyber risk adequately, and they must be able to communicate that information upward to their board members who...
Over the last twelve months the world has seen costly and destructive cyberattacks target organizations of all sizes regardless of industry or geography. With so much at stake, organizations need to know where their security programs are effective and where they are falling short.
Tenable has developed the...
Most businesses use the cloud for at least some applications - collaboration, email, backups and disaster recovery. And many more plan to in the next 12 months. According to "Orchestrating Security in the Cloud," a SANS survey, 40 percent of businesses store or process sensitive data in the cloud. But is it safe from...
To avoid being breached, you have to get your defenses right every single time. To breach you, hackers only have to get their attack right once. Experts advise breaches are inevitable. According to Ponemon Institute, the average time to resolve a cyber attack is 45 days, with an average cost of $35,647 per day. The...
The SANS 2015 survey of the incident response capabilities of more than 500 security professionals found good news and bad news. The good news is that reported malware incidents, breaches, and remediation time declined slightly compared to last year, indicating a maturing of defenses and incident response...
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The security of Internet-connected toys is in the limelight after toymaker VTech acknowledged suffering a data breach that affects 5 million accounts and personal information and photographs relating to more than 200,000 children.
While cyberattacks will continue to menace healthcare and other business sectors next year, organizations can't afford to overlook addressing risks tied to insiders, who are responsible for most data breaches, says Michael Bruemmer of Experian Data Breach Resolution.
Can your security team detect and identify intruders before data disappears? Are you confident that former employees and contractors no longer have access to your critical systems? These are among the questions we set out to answer in the 2015 Privileged Access
Management Study, sponsored by Hitachi ID Systems, and...
Ireland's Cyber Crime Conference in Dublin drew a capacity crowd for a full day of security briefings, networking, hotly contested capture-the-flag and secure-coding challenges, as well as a chance to sharpen one's lock-picking skills.
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