It’s No Longer Feasible to Manage Threats Individually, Given the Sheer Volume of Security Gaps That Exist. Faced with hundreds, thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities across their IT infrastructures leaves security practitioners at a virtually insurmountable disadvantage. The result is often lengthy dwell...
The West Holland region is the ideal gateway to Europe for cyber security companies. It is home to the largest security cluster in Europe: The Hague Security Delta (HSD). Due to the presence of the national government, military and intelligence agencies and international organizations, an...
The expression "fog of war" refers to the dramatic increase in uncertainty—a decrease in situational awareness—encountered by soldiers and commanders in military operations. Where is the enemy? What does it consist of? Where is my own army in relation? This was a very literal limitation prior...
The REAL problem with encryption: you're doing it wrong! Encryption has made itself famous lately by helping bad guys hide secrets from good guys. If the most powerful supercomputers in the world can't break the mathematical laws of encryption, how can the FBI, NSA and CIA decipher...
A curated list of cybersecurity podcasts to help security experts and enthusiasts stay on top of emerging threats. From the rise of ransomware to the blooming IoT exploit market, in the coming months security professionals at organizations as diverse as governments agencies, enterprise companies, and SMBs...
Most small-business owners (78 percent) still don't have a cyberattack response plan, even though more than half (54 percent) were victim to at least one type of cyberattack. About 60 percent of those who did experience a cyberattack said it took longer than a month to...
We've all had them. Those emails you read with a growing sense of dread which tell you to change the password you use on this account, that social network or one of the many other online services you use. Those emails are common given that almost...
Brian Krebs is one of the unsung heroes of tech journalism. He’s a former reporter for the Washington Post who decided to focus on cybercrime after his home network was hijacked by Chinese hackers in 2001. Since then, he has become one of the world’s...
Every few years, a researcher replicates a security study by littering USB sticks around an organization's grounds and waiting to see how many people pick them up and plug them in, causing the autorun function to install innocuous malware on their computers. These studies are...
Fully 74 percent of IT pros say their organization is vulnerable to insider threats, a recent survey found. A recent Bitglass survey of more than 500 IT professionals found that one in three respondents said their enterprise has experienced an insider attack in the last year,...