Infosecurity Opinions
How to Hold on to Your Workforce During the Job Hunting Season
Losing employees can pose a serious organizational challenge. With the cost of employee turnover estimated to be as much as 1.5 to 2 times an employee’s salary, how can companies retain their workforce and protect their bottom lines?
Web Isolation: The Evolution of Enterprise-Ready Isolation
Isolation is based on the concept of creating an “air-gap” between the web and users, to eliminate the possibility of threats reaching and infecting devices.
Cybersecurity in 2017: Recruitment is Key
As the cost and frequency of breaches continue to increase, companies are learning the value in investing in the improvement their cybersecurity systems.
Why Containerisation Matters More Than Ever Before
As organizations mobilize, they cannot afford to compromise corporate security: yet mobility is in a constant state of flux, with new innovations in communication, collaboration and productivity-enhancing technology continuing to disrupt and confound conventional security practices.
How to Outsource Security Services: Tips for Small Businesses
Considering the sophisticated cyber-attacks which SMBs may face, it’s not particularly practical to form an IT team to monitor the network and keep an eye on regular employees’ activities.
Cyber Insurance: Coming of Age in 2017?
As large-scale attacks and disclosures of massive data-breaches were reoccurring along the year, we realized once again that allocating tremendous efforts and resources to your cybersecurity defense does not provide any guarantee you won’t experience an incident.
The Fog of the Cybersecurity Challenge
Gearing an educational system to train workers at a rate ten times the current levels currently achieved by colleges and universities, and in just three years, does seem a massive challenge!
Want Stronger Network Security? Pay Attention to Your Packets
We are facing a crime scene built from a complex structure of servers, networks and applications, scattered across many different geographical locations
Securing the Connected Car
Often dubbed a “data center on wheels,” the connected car is one of the fastest-growing markets in the ecosystem that makes up the Internet of Things (IoT).
Advancing Infosecurity Standards Through Consensus
As a collaborative process, consensus is designed to satisfy a wide group through inclusion, information and participation.
How to Encourage Employees to Not Only Practice, but Actually Promote Cybersecurity Awareness
How to Encourage Employees to Not Only Practice, But Actually Promote Cybersecurity Awareness
The Connected World: ‘With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility’
The connected world becomes more and more embedded in the way we function, play and work.
IoT Denial of Service Botnets and SCADA Attacks to Plague 2017
With 2016 now behind us, it’s time to reflect on the security incidents that troubled our year and look to the challenges ahead
What is the Real Cost of DNS Security Attacks to UK Business?
Around 20 percent of businesses have been subject to cache poisoning (data corruption) in the past 12 months – more than US organizations, along with a higher amount of DNS Amplification attacks.
Porn Gets Pwned: for Hackers, XXX Means Exploit, Extort and Expose
The xHamster breach is the latest in a string of compromises involving adult websites, including Ashley Madison, FriendFinder, Brazzers and Pornhub. Hackers may be targeting these sites not simply because of their lacklustre security, but because the sensitive information they house can be easily monetized via blackmail.
How will Mirai Emerge in 2017?
Although a certain level of technical capability is required to install and operate Mirai, it has the potential to act as a force multiplier for a range of actors engaging in DDoS attacks, including hacktivists, extortionists, and politically-inspired actors.
How to Build a Culture of Cybersecurity
In spite of the highest levels of management insisting that it is a priority to protect data, why is it that some of us take those enabling actions? Why isn't everyone on board with cybersecurity?
Failing to Prepare is Preparing to Fail with Network Security
What, though, can companies do to help ensure that they are protected against enormously damaging breaches? A look at how organizations can help ensure their networks, sensitive data and other critical infrastructure are safeguarded from the huge number of threats now in play.
Raising the Stakes: Serious Cyber Security Preparations for 2017
The four trends, according to the ISF, that will shape the world of cybersecurity in 2017.
The Non-Refundable Fundamentals: Estimating the Cost of a Data Breach
Quantifying the financial impact of a data breach before it occurs is like assuming you can win roulette using insider trading
