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One hundred billion spam emails are sent out each day. With such daunting numbers, what can businesses do to protect themselves, and their customers' data, from hackers? 

Nearly three out of four organizations have been plagued by at least one security breach or incident in the past year, with about 60 percent of breaches categorized as serious.

Respondents to a survey on third party risk report that third party risk in their organization is increasing significantly.

The big news at this year’s RSA show was big data and the Cloud.

When discussing cybersecurity, a color can make all the difference. I recently spoke with Christopher Camejo, Director of Threat and Vulnerability Analysis, for NTT Com Security, about the differences between a white hacker, blue hacker and black hacker, and a red penetration test.

Tell somebody that you’re planning to make a plan, and you’ll get some snide looks. But tell somebody that you have a good plan in place, and it instills a sense of preparation and confidence.

Hacking a connected car in Michigan could warrant up to a life sentence behind bars if recently proposed legislation is passed into law.

After the leak of the Panama Papers and a string of ransomware attacks, will these new developments lead to new priorities for lawyers, doctors and enterprises at large? Can financial losses or the damage to the reputation of a health system or law firm lead to a new sense of urgency to update accepted security practices and even codes of conduct with hospital data? Will regulatory bodies mandate more training for these two distinguished professions that have largely opted out of serious cybersecurity training up until now?

While the majority of global organizations say that it is ‘vital’ their organization is insured against information security breaches, less than half (41%) are fully covered for both security breaches and data loss and a third have dedicated cybersecurity insurance.