Infosecurity Opinions

  1. Professional Sports Teams are Risking a Cybersecurity Own Goal

    The world of professional sport faces a significant cyber-threat due to the data teams hold and their high profile, writes James Hampshire

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      James Hampshire

      Senior Consultant, Control Risks

  2. Organizations Need to Break the Reactive Cycle

    Today’s businesses face the most dynamic and challenging security landscape ever seen. Traditional approaches are no longer sufficient, writes Rob Lay

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      Rob Lay

      Enterprise and Cybersecurity Solutions Architect, Fujitsu

  3. Why Did Cybercrime Get So Easy?

    The rise in cybercrime can be attributed to the new age of MaaS (malware-as-a-service), says Carl Leonard

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      Carl Leonard

      Principal Security Analyst, Raytheon | Websense

  4. Hackers are Powerless with Zero Knowledge

    Every day hackers are being equipped for their next attack, as more and more users are trusting organizations with their personal information online. But with zero knowledge, hackers can be rendered powerless, says Steve Watts

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      Steve Watts

      Co-founder, SecurEnvoy

  5. Open Source Vulnerabilities Call for Stronger Secure Shell Key Management

    The Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability woke everyone up to the risks that open source software can pose

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      Matthew McKenna

      chief strategy officer, SSH Communications Security

  6. The Government is Offering £5000 Vouchers to SMBs: Will it Really Help their Security?

    £5000 vouchers may be a big step in the right direction but more needs to be done to incentivize SMBs to invest in their cybersecurity, says Corey Nachreiner

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      Corey Nachreiner

      CTO, WatchGuard Technologies

  7. You Can Identify Hackers Before they Attack

    Ntrepid Chief Scientist Lance Cottrell discusses techniques businesses can implement to identify the attackers among their other visitors by using their own tools against them

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      Lance Cottrell

      Chief Scientist, Ntrepid

  8. It’s Time to Change How We Think About SSL/TLS

    With continuous certificate monitoring available, there’s no reason organizations should not know about vulnerable deployments and immediately fix them, says Jason Sabin

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      Jason Sabin

      Chief Security Officer, DigiCert

  9. Why Are We Pretending Encryption Could Have Saved UCLA & OPM?

    The Office of Personnel Management and UCLA Health have both been under fire in the media this summer for failing at one of the most universal standards for data security: encryption

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      David Gibson

      CISSP, VP, Varonis

  10. How to Prepare for the Cloud Application Explosion

    To cope with the exponential rise of the app, data and cloud market, web security solutions must offer CAC capabilities, says Ed Macnair

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      Ed Macnair

      CEO, CensorNet

  11. Windows Server 2003 end of life – what does this mean for your business?

    With the Windows Server 2003 end of life date around the corner, what does the switch off of support actually mean for your business? We take a look.

  12. Everybody’s Watching Facebook Vs Belgium Because Everybody is Facebook

    In privacy cases, European internet companies may not be subject to just their home regulator, explains Sam Pfeifle

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      Sam Pfeifle

      Publications Director, International Association of Privacy Professionals

  13. Compliance Doesn't Have to be Painful

    Organizations are placing far too much emphasis on the compliance certification and not enough on the compliance process, says Dan Maloney

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      Dan Maloney

      VP of Marketing and Business Development, AccelOps

  14. Security Alerts: You Only Have 7 Minutes to Decide

    On average, an IT executive has only seven minutes to determine whether their organization is under attack

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      Márton Illés

      Product Evangelist, BalaBit

  15. Future Proof Your Data Protection: GDPR and Beyond

    If GDPR doesn’t mean much to you yet, it soon will, writes Alessandro Porro

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      Alessandro Porro

      VP of International, Ipswitch

  16. Are Car Tracking Devices Safe and Secure?

    The European Parliament passed a new eCall law in April which states that, from 2018, every new car will contain a black box. But what are the security implications? asks Gary Newe

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      Gary Newe

      Technical director, F5 Networks

  17. Productivity and Security Don’t Have to Be a Trade-off

    The modern workplace is awash with enterprise cloud apps, with employees and organizations alike increasingly seeking greater productivity – but this doesn’t have to mean a decline in security, says Eduard Meelhuysen

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      Eduard Meelhuysen

      VP EMEA, Netskope

  18. The Scope of the Mobile Banking Problem

    Financial institutions present many opportunities for electronic theft, and cyber-attackers’ improved techniques and ever-more-aggressive malware makes them increasingly vulnerable, writes Jan Valcke

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      Jan Valcke

      President and COO, Vasco Data Security

  19. Cloud is the New Model for Innovation

    Steve Schmidt discusses how the cloud is enabling security departments to embrace innovation and deliver new projects. He takes a look at the lengths cloud providers go to in order to ensure the highest levels of security for all customers, including those in traditionally security-conscious industries

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      Steve Schmidt

      CISO, Amazon Web Services

  20. What is the True Cost of a Data Breach?

    Laurance Dine explains Verizon’s assessment model for gauging the financial impact of a security breach

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      Laurance Dine

      Global Partner, X-Force Incident Response, IBM

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