The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City is prohibiting U.S. government employees from to the resort town Playa del Carmen.

Cleveland Ohio’s E Prep and Village Prep School has a system that notifies a parent when a student is absent.

Travel risk is a top priority among European companies, yet travel security risk mitigation programs are seen as undermined due to communication inefficiencies.

According to an Intel Security survey, Security Operations Center operators acknowledge an inability to keep up with cybersecurity alerts or triage relevant events for investigation.

Essentially, one-third of analysts’ time is being spent on processing alerts that have unknowingly already been processed, and at present SOC teams are left with little ability to make this distinction resulting in massive manpower drain. 

People ignore software security warnings up to 90 percent of the time, according to a new study from Brigham Young University.

A recent survey by Rapid 7 found that security professionals are struggling to detect and investigate incidents because the monitoring solutions available do not provide visibility into today’s modern IT environments and cannot give users the insight they need to make decisions quickly.
 

Interpol has issued a global security alert in connection with suspected al-Qaeda involvement in several recent prison escapes including those in Iraq, Libya and Pakistan.