2017 was the year when cyber attacks finally became front-page fodder for Indian news media. It is little surprise that this coincided with the country becoming the second largest smartphone market. The lure of India for cybercriminals has never been as high and with the government embarking...
Maybe you’ve been feeling left out because you weren’t among the lucky few hundred million or billion who had their personal information stolen in either the Equifax or Yahoo!breaches. Well buck up, camper: Both companies took steps to make you feel better today. Yahoo! announced that, our bad!: It...
Cybersecurity threats are increasingly sophisticated and targeted. Hackers who want your information or want to disrupt your operations are looking for any way into your network. In an interconnected world, these hackers are increasingly looking to an organization’s supply chain partners, especially those with network...
Most MSPs are missing out on advanced security revenue areas line incident response and remediation, SIEM, secure web access & more. End users of all sizes are faced with a myriad of digital threats that can cause problems ranging from business disruption to reputation damage —...
More data records were leaked or stolen by miscreants during the first half of 2017 (1.9 billion) than all of 2016 (1.37 billion). Digital security company Gemalto's Breach Level Index (PDF), published Wednesday, found that an average of 10.4 million records are exposed or swiped every day. During the...
Growth in digital channels and transactions has exponentially increased chances of security threats over the last decade. The recent security threats, WannaCry and Petya, quickly became major concerns for businesses globally. According to a recent report by Kaspersky, Petya affected over 2,000 organizations globally. Unlike WannaCry, which...
Many hacks, breaches and failures occur because of a series of bad decisions, poor strategy & a lack of enforcement of well-known security practices. by Forrester Research • Aug 21, 2017 After reading through some other blogs and strategy papers, (Don’t judge me. To some of us,...
Cyber-criminals start attacking servers newly set up online about an hour after they are switched on, suggests research. The servers were part of an experiment the BBC asked a security company to carry out to judge the scale and calibre of cyber-attacks that firms face every...
Nearly 90 percent of organizations have faith that the security techniques and technologies they have in place provide the protection they need. And almost 60 percent believe they are less vulnerable from a security threat than they were as recently as one year ago. These...
As the times change, the security community needs to adapt. We live in an imperfect world, as Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer of Facebook pointed out in his recent BlackHat 2017 keynote address. Instead of trying to punish each other, hackers and innovators need to work...