I will get straight to the point: The time is right for the financial services (FS) industry to leverage the power of the cloud. It dovetails quite nicely with retail banking’s competitive moves to provide users with more flexible choices, banking simplification and an improved, positive customer experience. Indeed, I am encouraged that roughly 70% […]
In 2018 the threat landscape evolved at a breakneck pace, from predominantly DDoS and ransom attacks (in 2016 and 2017, respectively), to automated attacks. We saw sensational attacks on APIs, the ability to leverage weaponized Artificial Intelligence, and growth in side-channel and proxy-based attacks. And by the looks of it, 2019 will be an extension […]
For years, cybersecurity professionals across the globe have been highly alarmed by threats appearing in the form of malware, including Trojans, viruses, worms, and spear phishing attacks. And this year was no different. 2018 witnessed its fair share of attacks, including some new trends: credential theft emerged as a major concern, and although ransomware remains […]
Many enterprises are in transition to the cloud, either building their own private cloud, managing a hybrid environment – both physical and virtualized—or deploying on a public cloud. In addition, there is a shift from infrastructure-centric environments to application-centric ones. In a fluid development environment of continuous integration and continuous delivery, where services are frequently […]
Are you overwhelmed by the number of security events per day? If so, you are not alone. Alert Fatigue is Leaving You Exposed It is not uncommon for security administrators to receive tens of thousands of security alerts per day, leading to alert fatigue – and worse – security events going unattended. Tellingly, a study […]
True or False? 90% of small businesses lack any type of data protection for their company and customer information. The answer? Unfortunately true. Due to this lack of care, 61% of data breach victims are specifically small businesses according to service provider Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations. Although large corporations garner the most attention in […]
A little while ago, security professionals from my firm watched as hackers began probing the network of a large financial institution. The hackers took their time, poking here, prodding there, until they had a pretty good idea of the shape of things. The company recognized their incumbent security solution had shortcomings and had first installed […]
CSO Online | Apr 20, 2018 Host Steve Ragan reports from the show floor at RSA 2018, talking with guest Israel Barak, CISO at Cybereason, about his firm’s recent honeypot research, which gathered information showing how the bot landscape is evolving. Similar Security
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CSO Online | Dec 18, 2017 Executives at cloud services vendor Akamai — David Lewis, global security advocate; Andy Ellis, CSO; and Charlie Gero, CTO — talk with host Steve Ragan about the evolving role of security in the enterprise. Similar Security