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The Maritime Transportation System ISAC welcomes John Felker as Senior Advisor

Sr. Advisor Felker brings additional maritime cybersecurity partnership expertise to information sharing and analysis center

November 12, 2020

John Felker, former Assistant Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency brings significant public-private sector relationship building expertise to the Maritime Transportation System Information Sharing and Analysis Center’s (MTS-ISAC) nonprofit, community focused mission.

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9 reasons digital fraud is on the rise

Jordan Reynolds

November 12, 2020

What is causing digital fraud to rise year over year? From current trends and consumer attitudes to technological enhancements and more sophisticated tactics, let’s take a look at the top nine reasons digital fraud is rapidly increasing:

How the cloud changes everything

Oliver Tavakoli

November 12, 2020

Organizations' migration to the cloud is a broad term that encompasses many different trends: (1) Moving existing applications from private data centers to AWS, Azure, or the Google Cloud Platform as cloud service providers (CSPs), often referred to as lift-and-shift or infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS); (2) Completely restructuring how applications are built to make heavier use of prepackaged services available on these cloud service platforms – often referred to as lift-and-reshape, serverless, or platform-as-a-service (PaaS); (3) Choosing to forgo running copies of standard applications instead of having the application vendor host them is sometimes referred to as drop-and-shop or software-as-a-service (SaaS).

Bringing greater attention and awareness to cybersecurity practices in the global public health sector

Stanley J. Mierzwa

November 12, 2020

With the emergence of major public health issues, or crises, such as COVID-19, grant funding for research and program development will be made available from various government agencies to help with the response. Additionally, foundations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or Ford Foundation may provide the precious funds to perform the vital work to battle the at hand issue. If fortunate, those in receipt of funding to pursue the global health issue to be addressed will often utilize technology either developed or custom created and implemented to address the critical response, or in the case of COVID-19, slow the spread or research the creation of vaccines.

Italian bottling plants deploy security wearables for contact tracing and social distancing

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. in Italy deploys wearables for social distancing

November 12, 2020

Italian bottling company S.I.BE.G. srl invested in wearables for two of its plant and its headquarters locations to help with contact-tracing as well as ensure employees and visitors adhere to social-distancing guidelines.

Insider threat for financial institutions a security risk

Insider threats present big risk to financial institutions

November 12, 2020

In new research from HelpSystems interviewing chief security officers in financial institutions about the security challenges they face, more than a third (35%) of survey respondents cite insider threats as one with potential to cause the most damage in the next 12 months.

the world's largest brands continue to deal with website spoofing

Fake login pages are spoofing the world's largest brands – Where does it end?

Ian Baxter

November 12, 2020

Spoofed websites are a common avenue for cyberattacks. To better understand the scope of this phenomenon, it’s important for security professionals and organizations to know just how widespread the problem is.

Apple's new requirement puts additional focus on consumer and data privacy

Maria Henriquez

November 11, 2020

Starting on December 8, Apple will require all third-party developers to detail their app’s privacy information, according to an Apple post. Security experts note that this new update (iOS 14) puts additional focus on user privacy, and in particular gives users better visibility into their personal information that is shared with third parties.

5 minutes with Mark Kedgley – Minimizing security threats of alert fatigue

Maria Henriquez

November 11, 2020

Security alerts are imperative for effectively mitigating and preventing cyberattacks. But, a key challenge of modern threat protection solutions is the sheer number of alerts they generate – leading to “alert fatigue.” To learn more about the dangers of alert fatigue, we talk to Mark Kedgley, CTO at New Net Technologies (NNT).

Tackling the challenges of detecting P2P botnets

Alessandro Di Pinto

November 11, 2020

While the technical root causes are the same, the impact of an IoT botnet attack on consumer versus enterprise and industrial devices is vastly different. An attack on a consumer gadget could be limited to a privacy issue, whereas the effect of a successful breach on a commercial device can have a significant production or safety cost. That’s why it’s more critical than ever for IT and OT security professionals to understand and be prepared to defend against this growing threat.