Google has run out of patience with Symantec's digital certificate business. It has outlined a plan that over time will have its Chrome browser reject all of Symantec's existing digital certificates and force all of its future certificates to be reissued every nine months.
With the rapid changes in the threat landscape and the risks introduced by DevOps, the cloud and other new elements, organizations need to have a continuous vulnerability assessment program as a security baseline, says Richard Bussiere of Tenable Network Security.
Cloud services firm Coupa is one of the latest business email compromise victims, after a fraudster pretending to be its CEO faked out the HR department and stole all of its 2016 employees' W-2 forms. Security experts say rigorous training remains the only viable defense.
FBI Director James Comey worries about data corruption, and he's focused on hackers altering data. But if government leaders feed false information into computer systems, what should IT and IT security practitioners do to protect data integrity?
Security product testers have architectured their test suites to adhere to the technologies of the past 10 years. However, as endpoint security and the threat landscape continue to evolve, so must testing suites evolve as well. Advanced methodologies and a more robust testing criteria are essential to keep...
Most organizations that enable users to perform online transactions have implemented security measures to address fraud. Currently, one of the most common safeguards used in a wide array of products/services is two-factor authentication (2FA).
In recent years, 2FA has become employed by global tech leaders like...
Many IT professionals use remote administration tools to troubleshoot and fix PC problems remotely, just as if they were sitting behind the keyboard themselves. But these tools are also used for different purposes today. Both nation states and hacktivists use modified these tools, creating Remote Access Trojan's...
As the New Year unfolds, finding a breach prevention provider will be critical in order to safeguard an organization's assets. NSS Labs subjected nine cybersecurity market leaders to comprehensive, rigorous testing to determine how well each product handled current advanced threats and attack methods. All vendor...
Do your competitors and peers have a better cybersecurity game plan than you? If simply answering that question seems exhausting, this eBook is here to help.
Today's chief information officer knows they can't outsource risk. Yet every year, cyber risk demands more and more time from the already-busy CIO.
This...
Acknowledging the urgent IT security challenges the nation faces, a cybersecurity commission named by President Barack Obama encourages the incoming administration to adopt some of its recommendations in the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency.
Do your competitors and peers have a better cybersecurity game plan than you? If simply answering that question seems exhausting, this eBook is here to help.
Today's chief information officer knows they can't outsource risk. Yet every year, cyber risk demands more and more time from the already-busy CIO.
This...
"How secure are we?" That's one of the most common questions asked by boards and senior managers. But security and technology leaders do not always have ready answers, says Jacob Olcott of BitSight Technologies. Are they even using the right security metrics?
In an interview about cybersecurity metrics, Olcott...
Changes in NIST's upcoming revision of its security and privacy controls guidance acknowledge the view that security and privacy are concerns for all sectors, not just the federal government.
In the face of evolving cyberthreats, organizations of all sizes need a more resilient cybersecurity architecture.
In an interview about achieving resilient cybersecurity, Kaczmarek discusses:
How security leaders can prioritize their defenses again the many threats they face;
The benefits of using a hybrid...
"How secure are we?" That's one of the most common questions asked by boards and senior managers. But security and technology leaders do not always have ready answers, says Jacob Olcott of BitSight Technologies. Are they even using the right security metrics?
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