There is no such thing as ‘designing an artificial intelligence (AI) strategy’ because AI should be part of the business strategy. Before you start designing an AI system, ask yourself this: what are your business challenges and how can technology deliver value and assist your employees? Security is one of the biggest headaches for any organisation. Hackers are constantly looking for weak spots to break into the data bank. In truth, they only need to strike once to get lucky, whereas an organisation requires an army of people to work around the clock to stop bad actors from breaking in.…
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One year on from the global outbreaks of WannaCry and NotPetya, which established ransomware as one of the most notorious cyber threats on any businesses’ radar, organisations around the world are continuing to fall prey to new attacks. A fully-fledged ransomware infection can potentially cripple an organisation by locking away mission critical files and systems, and many firms will quickly cave in to the criminal’s demands and pay exorbitant fees in the hope of quickly restoring operations. The total cost of infection can quickly reach hundreds of thousands of pounds due to lost revenue from downtime and the time and…
The Washington Post this morning reported on newly refocused efforts of the US Department of Justice in its July 2 Report of the Attorney General’s Cyber Digital Task Force. Jeff Hudson, CEO at Venafi: “Simply put: giving the government backdoors to encryption destroys our security and makes communications more vulnerable. Government mandated backdoors will allow cyber criminals to undermine all types of private, secure communications. With all of the rhetoric around the topic of encrypted backdoors, it’s easy to lose sight of the facts — any government that mandates backdoors is no different from the world’s most authoritarian governments. At this moment, citizens…
News broke over the weekend that 157 gigabytes worth of sensitive documents for over a hundred manufacturing companies were exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to Level One Robotics. 10 years of assembly line schematics, factory floor layouts, robotic configurations, employee driver’s licences and more were exposed via a publicly accessible server. The server was not restricted by IP or user, and the data set was downloadable to anybody, providing they had the right knowledge. Luke Brown, VP EMEA at WinMagic: “If I had a dollar for every preventable incident of data compromise, I’d be a very wealthy man. Companies have…
In a bid to curb the menace of misinformation forwards, Facebook-owned WhatsApp has started testing a ‘suspicious link detection’ feature. The feature was made available in WhatsApp Android beta 2.18.204, to a limited number of users. Corin Imai, Senior Product Manager at DomainTools: “We are seeing more and more companies move toward protecting their customers’ data through limiting the sharing of known-bad domains. WhatsApp has done so with the release of their suspicious link detection feature, which focuses on reducing the spreading of links that can contain phishing attempts. With this method of reducing the consumption and sharing of dangerous domains, they are helping to…
It has been reported that the source code of Exobot, an Android banking Trojan, has been leaked online. The malware has spread rapidly, targeting Android users via malicious apps. Thomas Richards, Associate Principal Consultant at Synopsys: “Now that the source code for the Trojan has been released, other hackers or criminal organisations can create new variants. By making new variants, the Trojans might bypass signature based anti-malware detection on mobile devices. Additionally, the hackers/criminal organisations can make changes and feature additions to the Trojan. Users should only install applications from verified sources. For Android, this is the Google Play Store.”
News broke that hackers working for Russia claimed “hundreds of victims” last year in a giant and long-running campaign that put them inside the control rooms of U.S. electric utilities where they could have caused blackouts, federal officials said. They said the campaign likely is continuing. IT security experts commented below. Tim Helming, Director of Product Management at DomainTools: “The goals of nation-state actors are various, but in the case of Russian cyber actions against the United States, it is known that among their chief aims is to destabilize American institutions and to sow uncertainty and fear. With the recent reports of Russian…
BBC News today reported that the new Chrome 68 browser has resulted in high-profile websites displaying “Not Secure” warnings to visitors because the websites aren’t secured with HTTPS: Chrome browser flags Daily Mail and other sites as ‘not secure’ Kevin Bocek, Vice President of Security Strategy and Threat Intelligence at Venafi: “As expected, several high-profile websites now greet Chrome users with a ‘Not Secure’ warning from today. Understandably, this might create some confusion and concern – but people shouldn’t worry, it’s actually a sign that the internet as a whole is becoming more secure. The fact is, websites should be secure as a…
Tony Pepper, CEO at Egress Software: “Today we have seen reports highlighting that a huge data breach in Singapore has resulted in the personal data of 1.5m people – a quarter of the country’s population – being stolen from a government health database. “Given the sensitivity of the data accessed, we are once more confronted with the reality that the healthcare industry continues to be a sector increasingly vulnerable to cyber hackers. Far from being a problem consigned to Singapore, this a global issue. You only have to cast your mind back to the WannaCry attack in 2017 to understand…
Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) is the process of leveraging people and technology to secure sensitive data present on employee devices. EMM automates security configurations on devices so they’re ready for corporate use. It also enables you to keep security threats at bay, regardless of their attack vector. Whether the threat comes from an app, the Internet or the device itself, EMM solutions can prevent critical data loss and unauthorised data access. How can EMM be deployed in a way that enhances an organisation’s mobile security? What problems around mobile security will it solve? Any enterprise’s primary concern should be securing…