Although the ransomware plague took a nosedive in terms of the victim count years ago, it’s still alive and kicking. It used to home in on any computers indiscriminately, but at some point, the malicious actors realized they could squeeze a lot more profit out of the enterprise than out of individual users. This shift made businesses the most coveted target for ransomware operators.
VivaVideo, Chinese "spyware" app with at east 100 million installs on the Android Play Store, is requesting dangerous permissions, including the ability to read and write files to external drives and an user's specific GPS location.
To apply true holistic security best practices and reduce significant risks to the mainframe, security teams must embrace an integrated mainframe security strategy.
The US Government Accountability Office reviewed four federal agencies and found that they did not have policies for coordinating assessments with states and none of them had policies for coordinating assessments with each other.
The risks of an attack are not new, but as incidents become more sophisticated and persistent, organizations need to move from cybersecurity to cyber resilience.
When we do a risk assessment, we evaluate the facility’s needs and identify any gaps in their physical security barriers and policies and procedures. Why should you integrate security early in the design process?
Many weeks have passed since organizations around the globe closed their physical doors and transitioned to full-scale remote work. This ‘new normal,’ as many are calling it now, has brought upon countless changes for IT teams.
Extending the perimeter by instituting a corporate security intelligence program enables companies and organizations to stay well ahead of threats and often helps inform strategic and operational decision-making.
Why does the practice of Data Economy typically requires a solid understanding of the characteristics of the underlying data resource? And how can that data be transformed into useful intelligence, where these processes are carried out with the upmost care to represent the interests of the Data Subject?