Infosecurity Opinions

  1. Phishing Prevention Begins with Education

    The most effective way to prevent this is to educate people about what to look for and avoid, which means understanding why they fall for phishing messages in the first place

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      James Mason

      Service Security Manager, Fordway

  2. Reducing Time Spent Reacting to Emergencies

    About one-third of the time of IT operations is spent dealing with emergencies.

  3. Using Machines to Understand When Normal isn't Normal

    Is AI a means to make the incident responder’s job a lot easier?

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      Barry Shteiman

      Director of Threat Research, Exabeam

  4. The Password Takes its Last Breath

    Behavioral biometrics activities cannot be hacked or duplicated, as no one can imitate exactly how another person uses their phone.

    1. Yair Finzi

      Co-founder and CEO of SecuredTouch

  5. Why Cyber Attacks are Not as Scary as they Sound

    The truth is that there are already excellent processes and diligent professionals that have kept us safe, and will continue working to keep us safe.

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      Patrick Dennis

      President and CEO, Guidance Software

  6. The Silent Risk: The Risk of File-Less Cyber Attacks

    Silent attacks which make it past the gateway and pose the greatest risk to an organization?

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      Tony Rowan

      Chief Security Consultant, SentinelOne

  7. Are Data Brokers Actually Secure?

    If data brokers are going to amass ever-greater collections of user data, it would make sense that this user data is protected adequately.

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      Alex Haynes

      CISO, IBS Software

  8. HTTPS for the Masses, and Attackers

    10% of all phishing links are now hosted on such “secure” sites, but takedowns require the

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      Abhishek Dubey

      CEO of RedMarlin

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      Shashi Prakash

      Chief Scientist at RedMarlin

  9. Don't Let Malware Hit You on the Way Out

    Enterprises are not doing enough to secure their organizations when it personnel leave.

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      Noa Arias

      Director of Marketing at Semperis

  10. Could GDPR Shrink Big Data?

    Regulators should take into account the immense task that GDPR compliance will involve, as businesses face losing the capacity to exploit commercially-valuable data.

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      Yves Le Roux

      Co-Chair of the (ISC)2 EMEA Advisory Council, (ISC)²

  11. Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts

    The reality is that many organizations are still failing to implement some of the fundamental measures that can protect against external and insider threat.

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      Brian Chappell

      Senior Director, Enterprise & Solution Architecture, Beyond Trust

  12. Preparing for GDPR: Pay Attention to Third Party Services

    The wages of ignorance in this case are likely to be sanctions – which, as we have seen, can be substantial.

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      Hadar Blutrich

      CTO, Source Defense

  13. The Best Steps in a Cyber Incident

    Have you ever paused to consider what you would do if your company becomes a victim of a data breach?

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      Marty Puranik

      Founder and CEO of Atlantic.Net

  14. Why the Cloud Could Be Your Most Secure Place for Data

    Though most are warming up to cloud security, in several industries there is still a misconception by some that the cloud doesn’t offer the same levels of data security as traditional on-premise data centers

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      Niall Browne

      CISO , Domo

  15. Five Essential Steps to GDPR Survival

    Five key steps organizations can follow in order to get ready for GDPR.

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      Eckhard Herych

      Faculty Member of the CGOC

  16. Why SD-WANs are Just the Beginning of WAN Security

    SD-WANs make it easy for IT to use tunneling to segment traffic over the network.

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      Dave Greenfield

      Secure Networking Evangelist, Cato Networks

  17. The World's Authentication Problem

    The reason we’re so bad at authentication is that we’ve built a number of deeply ingrained habits around the use of shared secrets as a method of authentication.

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      Steve Shapiro

      CTO of Tokenize

  18. Are Words Harming the Security Industry?

    To make claims that oversell and clearly cannot be substantiated is harming the credibility of the security industry.

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      James Maude

      Senior security engineer at Avecto

  19. How AI Can Help Close the Security Gap

    If leveraged correctly, AI can help close the gap between the growing threat landscape and our cyber-defense capabilities.

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      Gaurav Banga

      Founder and CEO of Balbix

  20. Why it's Time for a Cybersecurity Sharing Economy

    Reasons why more companies should consider joining the cybersecurity sharing economy.

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      Liz Maida

      Founder, CEO and CTO of Uplevel Security

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