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The best way to protect accounts and data from credential stuffing and online phishing attacks is to stop reusing the same passwords on multiple accounts. All accounts—but especially accounts related to work, retail, finance, and government—should be protected with strong, unique passwords. What are a few best practices to ensure employees are safer online?

Testing for illegal drugs is an ongoing battle. To mitigate the opioid pandemic, rapid detection and identification of illegal drugs is critical for campus safety, police officer and criminal investigators.

Although distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is an old school attack vector, it continues to be a serious threat to organizations. The monthly number of such attacks exceeds 400,000. To top it off, cybercriminals keep adding new DDoS mechanisms to their repertoire and security providers aren’t always prepared to tackle them. Here are 26 different types of DDoS attacks your security team needs to be ready for. 

Biometrics has the potential to make authentication faster, easier and more secure, as long as it is handled with due care. Based on this, what can companies and governments do to offer a safer digital environment for consumers?

Chris Hallenbeck, CISO for the Americas at Tanium, has led security and IT operations, incident response, endpoint detection and built and deployed teams for incidents of national security. What initiatives has he implemented as a CISO, and how does he gauge the success of his team?

American Electric Power has named Therace Risch to a new position as senior vice president and chief information & technology officer.