Articles Tagged with ''data security''

 Nine of the country’s largest payment card issuers who participate in the Payments Security task force estimate that they will have issued more than 575 million chip-enabled payment cards by the end of 2015. 

The Cisco 2014 Midyear Security Report, released at Black Hat U.S. examines the “weak links” in organizations that contribute to the increasingly dynamic threat landscape.

A Russian crime ring has stolen 1.2 billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses.

Moving information from enterprise data centers or in-network servers to a cloud environment is often chosen as a means to offload IT maintenance costs, provide a higher degree of physical safeguards and facilitate easier scaling to accommodate business growth.

Recipients can now receive view-only files, which cannot be downloaded, forwarded, or copied and pasted; files can be watermarked, and not available for editing; users can search files for key words and phrases

According to security researchers at IBM and the Cyber Security Intelligence Index, 95 percent of successful hack attacks or incidents were because of some type of human error.

An organization has to look at the whole picture when thinking about the risks and acceptable use policy regarding wearable technology.

Despite heightened awareness of insider threats, most organizations continue to grapple with how to mitigate risks to their networks and sensitive information.

The FBI has warned healthcare providers their cybersecurity systems are lax compared to other sectors, making them vulnerable to attacks by hackers.

According to the Ponemon Institute's ninth annual Cost of Data Breach Study, the consolidated total cost of a data breach increased 15% in the last year, to $3.5 million.