Infosecurity Blogs
Sheep vs Cyber-Insurance
Cyber-insurance can offer an additional level of protection to your organisation but can it give the desired level of protection?
Infosecurity: Zip Up and Lose the Fear
How are professionals implementing security architectures? How is how peopple working affecting efficacy of these systems?
Your Not-So-Typical Cybersecurity Awareness Tips
For those of us in the cybersecurity profession, the term “awareness” should not stop at educating users. As leaders in our field, the term must invoke a determination to address a workforce in crisis.
Experian: It’s Our Data So We Must Demand MORE
The Experian breach shows how our data and our lives are exposed to hackers, cyber criminals, state sponsored activities, and even authorized agencies.
The Public Sector and Visual Privacy
The public sector is arguably one of the market sectors that most closely appreciates the need for visual privacy as part of overall security strategies and is acting accordingly.
The Rise of the Mobile Worker Increases the Risk of Visual Hacking
The rise in mobile working and the ability to view other people’s screens is potentially a criminal’s dream. There’s no need for computer hacking expertise; instead, discreetly point a smartphone at a screen and click away or simply memorize what can be seen
Only Consultant Surgeons Need Apply
When it comes to securing the enterprise, your firm may pay close attention to obvious infrastructure security assets along with delivering against governance and compliance regimes. Yet it may be that your organisation can be both insecure and compliant at the same time
Why Security Professionals Need to Start Prioritizing Visual Privacy
The visual hacking threat and ways to address it.
Visual Hacking Exposed – Results of the 3M Visual Hacking Experiment
The results of a ground-breaking study carried out by the Ponemon Institute, in association with 3M, for the first time puts some context around the very real ‘visual hacking’ risk
Isn’t It Time to Prioritize Visual Security?
As we all start to work more in open plan areas, or carry out work on trains, planes or in coffee shops, the opportunities for ‘visual hacking’ increase.
Defense Support to Commercial Nation State Intrusions
With immense capacity and advanced technical capabilities, the military is well prepped to support the commercial sector handling complex nation state intrusions
Spelling Bee (Input from the Hive Mind)
For a researcher, curiosity is usually an advantage: in fact, it’s probably a survival characteristic. However, it’s sometimes a curse
Keeping It Classy When It Comes To Data Security
The subject of classifying data has been propelled into the public domain out of the acts of one lady candidate who is running for office in the US - and I believe her actions open up a much wider debate on the techy subject of classifying data.
The Fly in Google’s Alphabet Soup
Good alphabet soup, like a Scrabble board, has 26 letters just like the English alphabet. We use them to form words, sentences, thoughts, and ideas. But Google’s Alphabet is a murkier recipe – it is a parent holding company – for a behemoth data collection endeavor
Five Challenges Facing Security Startups
Not every security startup makes its founders multi-millionaires. For every billion-dollar success story, thousands of companies will develop security products you will never hear about, let alone buy
Cyber Threat Intelligence – No Longer Just a Nice To Have
Information Leakage is possibly one of the most common, and misunderstood security risks faced today, and potentially one which impacts organizations every single day. When linked to electronic distance information gathering, it can, and does pose significant security risks to any business, or government agencies alike.
Network Security: Securing the Ever-Expanding Boundary
Organizations of all sizes need to ensure they are fully prepared to deal with ever-emerging challenges by equipping themselves to better deal with attacks on their business as well as their reputation
The rise of digital natives and their enthusiasm for cloud services
As digital natives enter management positions and shadow IT deployments become an accepted norm, the choice is no longer whether or not to adopt cloud-based services, but about the security measures that are put in place to support their use.
