QUESTION TO OUR EXPERT PANEL MEMBERS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST: What are your recommendations in addressing the problem of shortage of cyber security professionals? RESPONSES: [su_box title=”Andrew Agnes, Founding Member, Host Unknown” style=”glass” box_color=”#a45bb4″ title_color=”#060706″]Is there really a shortage of cybersecurity professionals? I’m going to let you in on an industry secret which may take you by surprise so brace yourself; the majority of reports produced about the low availability of “qualified” professionals are usually based on data collated and reported by global, non-profit, independent associations (or consortium’s) who are advocates for validating people’s competencies. Well, them or recruitment agencies.…
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Following the news that Amazon has revealed it will no longer accept advertisements that use Flash after September 1, Tim Erlin, director of security and risk at Tripwire says “This is driven by recent browser setting updates from Google Chrome, and existing browser settings from Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari, that limits Flash content displayed on web pages. This change ensures customers continue to have a positive, consistent experience on Amazon, and that ads displayed across the site function properly for optimal performance.” [su_note note_color=”#ffffcc” text_color=”#00000″]Tim Erlin, Director of IT Security and Risk Strategy at Tripwire : “While it may…
Senior executives from Securonix and STEALTHbits Technologies commented on Jeb Bush’s statements this week that encryption “makes it harder for the American government to do its job while protecting civil liberties to make sure evildoers aren’t in our midst.” [su_note note_color=”#ffffcc” text_color=”#00000″]Stewart Draper, Director of Insider Threat for Securonix : “U.S voters want MORE privacy through encryption and are holding companies accountable for securing their data now more than ever. With the knowledge of how extensive the data collections have been, there is a good deal of trust that will need to be earned back by the U.S government. Finding…
Digital data has become central to all our lives and businesses from the largest multi-national organisations to the smallest family run start-ups now store the majority of their data in bytes instead of boxes. Current estimates are that there is now up to five zettabytes (the equivalent of one trillion gigabytes) of information on the planet and it could be ten times that by the end of the decade. Many of us blissfully assume that the data we store electronically will be eternally safe. However, the real world is fraught with potential ‘data disasters’. The data loss scenarios painted in…
With the impending EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the horizon, are you aware of the impact this will have on your current data management policies, processes and systems? For many businesses the realistic answer to this question is “I don’t know” and for most it will be “no”. No matter what industry you are in, if you handle other people’s data you are responsible for keeping it safe and bound by law to comply with data protection regulations. This applies to data whilst it flows between departments, moves across different systems, is passed between individuals, transitions onto new…
Quarterly Report Examines Cybercrime Attacks Detected by the ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Network, Which Analyzes More Than One Billion Transactions Monthly ThreatMetrix®, the fastest-growing provider of context-based security and advanced fraud prevention solutions, today announced the release of its “ThreatMetrix® Cybercrime Report: Q2 2015,” which examines cybercrime attacks detected by the ThreatMetrix® Digital Identity Network (The Network) during Q2 2015. These attacks were detected during real-time analysis and interdiction of fraudulent online payments, logins and new account registrations. During this period, The Network analyzed more than 3 billion transactions, and detected and stopped more than 75 million attacks in real time.…
DomainTools, the leader in domain name and DNS research, released its first annual BSides survey revealing that 35 percent of security experts believe leadership within their organization lacks a “healthy paranoia,” with 21 percent of leadership “relying on hope as a strategy” to avoid a cyber security breach. Conducted live during the week of Black Hat, the findings indicate that nearly half of those polled worry that the DNA of their organization is not security-driven, citing a “lack of situational awareness” within the company. Not surprisingly, the number one complaint was that the leadership team was making decisions without involving…
Being at the forefront of fraud prevention, our level of awareness for fraud related schemes is definitively higher than it is for any other business. We live to fight back fraud 24 by 7, and being one of the pioneers in the industry to champion DMARC and knowing its benefits. we decided to deploy the DMARC policy in monitoring mode, as you can see here : P=none means no action is taken on emails that fail the authentication protocol, however, we have the visibility as to who is spoofing our domain and for what purpose. Knowing that it was a…
Plenty of Fish, another dating site, has been targeted by hackers. People who visited Plenty of Fish in the last few days are likely to have had malicious spying software installed on their computers, which would have then tracked all of their keystrokes. So the hackers can see everything a person is typing – including when they log in to their online banking. Security Specialist, Mark James from IT Security Firm ESET, gives insight into what happened, the hacker’s motivations, as well as advice for users and the affected company. Any more insight into what happened? “Malvertising has been around for…
According to a survey by information systems and communications security Thales and Ponemon Institute, more than half of all respondents said their organization transfers sensitive or confidential data to the cloud. Despite the transfer of sensitive information, 35 percent of respondents said their use of the cloud actually decreased their security posture. More than 60 percent felt the cloud provider held the primary responsibility for protecting their data, yet more than half admitted they have no idea what their cloud provider does to protect the data. As more consumers and companies fully adopt the cloud, security threats will become more…