November 21, 2016
By Vijay Ramanathan, Vice President of Product Management, Code42 It’s time to flip our thinking about enterprise information security. For a long time, the starting point of our tech stacks has been the network. We employ a whole series of solutions on servers and networks—from monitoring and alerts to policies and...
November 18, 2016
By Jon King, Security Technologist and Principal Engineer, Intel Security And you thought virtualization was tough on security … Containers, the younger and smaller siblings of virtualization, are more active and growing faster than a litter of puppies. Recent stats for one vendor show containers now running on 10% of hosts,...
November 14, 2016
By Raj Samani, EMEA CTO, Intel Security “How many visitors do you expect to access the No More Ransom Portal?” This was the simple question asked prior to this law enforcement (Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre, Dutch Police) and private industry (Kaspersky Lab, Intel Security) portal going live, which I didn’t have...
November 11, 2016
By Susan Richardson Smart entrepreneurs have long employed differential pricing strategies to get more money from customers they think will pay a higher price. Cyber criminals have been doing the same thing on a small scale with ransomware: demanding a larger ransom from individuals or companies flush with cash, or...
November 04, 2016
By Susan Richardson, Manager/Content Strategy, Code42 What’s the most effective thing you can do for cyber security awareness? Stop talking about it, according to a new study that uncovered serious security fatigue among consumers. The National Institute of Standards and Technology study, published recently, found many users have reached their saturation point...
November 02, 2016
By Jacob Ansari, Manager, Schellman On Oct. 21, Dyn, a provider of domain name services (DNS), an essential function of the Internet that translates names like www.schellmanco.com to its numerical IP address, went offline after a significant distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack affected Dyn’s ability to provide DNS services to...
October 31, 2016
By Ryan Mackie, Principal and ISO Certification Services Practice Director, Schellman Introduction ISO 27001 North American GrowthISO/IEC 27001:2015 (ISO 27001) certification is becoming more of a conversation in most major businesses in the United States. To provide some depth, there was a 20% increase in ISO 27001 certificates maintained globally...
October 27, 2016
By Evelyn de Souza, Data Privacy and Security Leader, Cisco Systems and Strategy Advisor, Cloud Security Alliance Everything we know about defeating the insider threat seems to not be solving the problem. In fact, evidence from the Deep, Dark and Open Web points to a greatly worsening problem. Today’s employees...
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