The digital and the physical merge to create a tangled terrain Austin. Global cybersecurity leader Forcepoint™ today released its 2017 Cybersecurity Predictions Report. This year’s report examines the increasing convergence of the technological and the physical worlds and the long term implications of this new digital ecosystem on organizations and institutions worldwide. Cybersecurity experts from Forcepoint and Raytheon collaborated to develop these predictions. The full report may be downloaded here. “The security challenges rising from the rapid integration of the digital and physical in 2017 will be felt globally,” said Kris Lamb, vice president of Forcepoint threat protection R&D and security labs. “As these spheres…
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Addressing the trust factor in security orchestration and automation Any conversation about using automation in cybersecurity inevitably wanders into a discussion about trust. IT and security professionals simply have trouble “taking the leap” and trusting in software to manage tasks that have always relied upon personal experiences, years of training and in many cases, gut instinct, to take the proper actions. While some vendors choose to pit automation vendors against human cyber analysts in an all or nothing battle royal, the reality of how automation can complement human intelligence is a bit more nuanced and subtle. But the question of…
As we stand, in the first quarter of the 21st century, we have found ourselves in love with technology. So much in love that we rush out at the first chance of getting the latest technology, standing in queues overnight, just for a glimpse of the new iPhone or game. But, perhaps we are reaching the end of the honeymoon period and now need to take stock of where we stand with our ardent lover, technology. Technology has taken over our lives. We use it from dusk to dawn. The alarm on our smart phone is set to wake us…
In relation to the compromise of the Adult Friend Finder website, David Emm, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab commented below. David Emm, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab: “Online daters are going to feel a familiar lurch of fear when they hear about the compromise of the Adult Friend Finder website, just 16 months after the Ashley Madison hack and the resulting publicity, shaming and blackmail. From the information available, it appears this is the second time the Friend Finder networks have been compromised, and by the same method of attack, highlighting how little companies have learned from past…
76 percent of consumers surveyed by Computop, planned to shop online this holiday season, but consumers varied widely on which security authentication features they would consider setting up for online purchases. 35% of the respondents of this survey said they would set up fingerprint IDs, 12 percent selected retina scans, 7 percent chose voice recognition and 2 percent noted pay by selfie, but 41 percent of total respondents said they would not choose any of the above with 26 percent of respondents concerned that their biometric data could be spoofed, and 11 percent did not trust biometric payment authentication at…
Following the news about TalkTalk story that a 17 year old has admitted to hacking the company, Laurance Dine, Managing Principal, Investigative Response at Verizon Enterprise Solution commented below. Laurance Dine, Managing Principal, Investigative Response at Verizon Enterprise Solutions: “The fact that a 17-year-old was able to breach the defences of a major organisation and steal the personal data of 160,000 customers using a piece of off-the-shelf hacking software is a little sobering to say the least. What it shows is that hackers don’t need to be particularly innovative to be successful. Indeed, the DBIR 2016 showed that many cybercriminals are still using…
Friend Finder Network Inc was hacked in October of 2016 for over 400 million accounts representing 20 years of customer data which makes it by far the largest breach we have ever seen. This event also marks the second time Friend Finder has been breached in two years, the first being around May of 2015. IT security experts from Imperva, Rapid7 and NuData Security commented below. Amichai Shulman, founder and CTO of Imperva: “With all the hacks in the news and dumps of millions of user names and passwords, it’s astonishing but not surprising that people continue to use simple passwords across multiple…
The very successful digitisation trend over the past 20 years has produced huge efficiencies in every type of corporation and government. But the dark side is that the security industry has largely failed to evolve the standard security architecture to keep pace with these broader changes in IT. The firewalled perimeter remains the primary defence in IT security. Yet every major data breach in the pandemic of breaches taking place around the world shows how simply firewalls can be bypassed. If a government worker clicks on the wrong email and falls prey to a phishing attack, a hacker can leapfrog…
The exponential surge in online fraud and cybercrime saw almost 6 million offences committed last year, meaning around one in 10 adults in the UK were victims. According to the latest findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, fraud has now become the most prevalent crime in the country with people 10 times more likely to become a fraud victim than they are to suffer a theft. What is clear is that fraud is an insidious problem that challenges all businesses in the UK and around the globe. For far too long, fraud has been viewed as a victimless crime.…
Employees at every level and across every industry are reminded regularly that information is vital to their business. In order to make the most of business information, easy access is critical. Whether it’s an email with the latest financial figures, a marketing strategy PDF, a print out of a CV including hand-written notes or a customer contact list, having the information readily to hand enables businesses to serve their customers and employees. Given the importance of information to business success, you would expect employees to take every possible step to manage information securely. Yet, with file servers overflowing and increased…