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Cyber Incidents: The Human Factor

January 9, 2020

Apparently, we are getting in our own way when it comes to advancing cybersecurity. According to a leading 2018 study by the Ponemon Institute LLC (sponsored by IBM), the three primary causes of data breaches were malicious or criminal attack, system glitch and human error. While the study reports that the length of time to identify and contain, and the cost, were lower for data breaches caused by human error as opposed to the other categories, it is an issue that nearly 27 percent of data breaches are caused by human error.

The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence as a System

Derek Manky

January 9, 2020

Artificial Intelligence (AI) rests on the verge of transforming both business and society. Financial firm UBS forecasts that next year, the AI market will be worth $12.5 billion due to huge improvements and broader adoption of the technology. And BCG Henderson Institute found that though most leaders have not yet seen significant impact from their AI initiatives, they firmly expect to within the next five years.

Education & Training

Death by Association: Family Terror Networks

Dean C. Alexander

Kevin Harrington

January 8, 2020

It is dangerous to be related to a terrorist, let alone a senior terror operative. Such an association can lead to one's imminent death while participating in an attack encouraged by a family member.

How K-9 Programs are Force Multipliers

How do you know if a K-9 program is right for you, and how do you get started?

Maria Henriquez

January 6, 2020

What are the challenges that the team at the North Greenville University Office of Campus Security faced when implementing its K-9 program?

Eric Clay: Addressing Healthcare Security Challenges

How does Eric Clay, System Director of Public Safety for CoxHealth, address common healthcare security challenges, and what initiatives has he taken to improve the safety of staff and patients?

Maria Henriquez

January 3, 2020

Providing a safe and secure environment where clinical staff can focus on administering excellent patient care requires the CoxHealth Public Safety team to address all challenges head-on. How does Eric Clay, System Director of Public Safety, provide a safe and secure environment?

Metrics and ROI That Matters in 2020 and Beyond

If enterprise security continues to mature as a business function, in most enterprises, senior management will ask for a set of metrics to measure performance.

January 1, 2020

What is the point of spending time, resources and money on your security program if you can't tell whether it's working or not? It's just as important to establish the right metrics for a security program as it is to have such a program in the first place.

Cyber Tactics

New Year Prognostications: A Perennial Guide for the Perplexed

John McClurg

January 1, 2020

2020 heralds a few major shifts that will transform cybersecurity: ransomware attacks, artificial intelligence, facial recognition and mobile cybersecurity.

Career Intelligence

Considerations for Your Security Career in 2020

Jerry J. Brennan

January 1, 2020

As we enter the new year, conversations within the security community often inevitably deal with issues and programs that will be of greatest concern to leadership in the coming months.

Security Talk

Election Infrastructure Remains Vulnerable to Attacks

Diane Ritchey

January 1, 2020

In 10 months, U.S. citizens will elect a new president. As the race heats up and election day nears, a key component of the U.S. election infrastructure remains vulnerable to cyberattacks and misinformation campaigns.

Anomaly Detection in SOC – Friend or Foe?

Lots of security vendors talk about integrating innovative techniques using Artificial Intelligence. In cybersecurity, this often boils down to supervised or unsupervised anomaly detection of measures attributes. However, in many cases there is a big gap between the identification of anomalies and transforming them into actionable data.

Haim Zlatokrilov

December 27, 2019

There are lots of buzzwords floating around cybersecurity: machine learning, artificial intelligence, supervised and unsupervised learning … In many cases these advanced technologies are based on anomaly detection.