Electric car manufacturer Tesla has sued a former employee for sabotage, alleging that he "unlawfully hacked the company's confidential and trade secret information and transferred that information to third parties" while leaving a trail designed to implicate other employees.
A former CIA software engineer who is facing child pornography charges is a possible suspect in the largest-ever leak of classified information from the spy agency. While Joshua A. Schulte has not been charged with the leak, prosecutors have indicated they will soon indict him.
As of Q1 2018, the global cybersecurity community finds themselves inundated with both internal and external advanced threat actors who are stealthier, more resilient and sadly, more effective than they have ever been before. Many organizations are coming to terms with deciding whether their security posture is...
As threats and attacks become more frequent, the alerts and alarms to be investigated become more unmanageable. Plus, by the time the warnings are checked, the damage may already be done. We need a new paradigm that moves the enterprise from reactive to predictive. Can user behavior analytics and machine learning...
Whether it's insider or third-party vendor access, organizations are realizing they need to do more with their privileged accounts and systems. But traditional approaches often leave organizations with wide gaps in security. Sam Elliott of Bomgar explains what companies need to look for when it comes to access...
A recently published 2017 survey of over 400 security professionals in the U.S., U.K. and Germany 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...
Traditional identity and access management (IAM) controls, though extensive, are static. Once a malicious user gains access, they are free to exploit the system up to the extent of the account's set privileges.
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The digital transformation has created a whole new set of attack surfaces that must be defended, in addition to the existing infrastructure you've been protecting for years. So how can you ensure your hybrid environments, administrative power, and automation tools are not exploited by an attacker?
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The security model deployed by credit and debit card systems is significantly different than traditional corporate data security solutions. You may think the difference is Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards. However, they are primarily best practices. PCI is not what makes payment card security special.
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As the threat landscape continues to evolve, you need a practical and robust way to protect privileged access in your enterprise. Analytics that detect new threats and automatically mitigate them are a great way to achieve this.
Download this whitepaper and learn key steps to utilizing threat analytics such as how...
Is your organization exposed to an attack that misuses SSH keys?
You know that your organization is using SSH to safeguard privileged access. But you may not realize that your SSH keys could be vulnerable to insider and cyber threats.
The majority of those we surveyed didn't. Results from a 2017 study show that...
Organisations must replace their traditional, defensive security strategies with a proactive, intelligence-driven offense to prevent and disrupt sophisticated, agile threats. Next generation intelligence enables organisations to incorporate cyber threat hunting into their security strategy, and turn their defence into...
The cyber threat analysis discipline blends aspects of intelligence analysis, information security and forensic science. By using cyber threat analysis, one can detect infiltrations faster, regardless of their source. Pairing advanced platforms with a human is the most effective way to detect an...
This eBook introduces IT professionals to next-generation multi-factor authentication (MFA), an approach to authentication that goes well beyond usernames and passwords to provide the right level of security assurance at the right time, anytime. But that's not all: Next-generation MFA also streamlines authentication...
An in-depth look at the DMARC anti-spoofing system - which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this past week said it will require federal agencies to adopt - leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, continuous monitoring of the insider threat.
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