91% of cyberattacks start with a phishing email . Why are they still so prevalent – and successful? It seems like every day another high-ranking employee falls for a scam and loses millions in company money. How long have security experts been fighting phishing attacks? How much damage can they c
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation will take effect in May 2018. The Regulation governs the privacy practices of any company processing EU citizens’ data, whether or not that company is located in the EU. One of the GDPR’s requirements is that public authorities and companies processing per
It would be a severe understatement to say the cyber-landscape has drastically shifted in the past several years. From mere nuisance to real threats on real lives, cyberattacks have grown to be a paramount the issue – and not just for the small-to-medium sized company, but for gigantic c
What happens to the victims of data theft, once hackers get hold of their identity? We were tempted to say “digital identity”, but that would not have been complete. Once the personally identifiable information (PII) or sensitive personal information (SPI) is in the hands of malicious entities, it c
Alarm or alert fatigue is much older than our current cyber-technology. It represents the state of de-sensitization to alerts due to their overwhelming frequency or number, and it was previously met in industrial environments. As the denomination suggests, individuals whose main activity resides in
Once a company’s IT system has been breached or infected, there are standard procedures to follow, in order to make sure all malicious elements are removed and for the system to safely re-engage in the usual activities. Bigger companies employ specialized services for cyber-security system setting u
The rate of information increase nowadays is unprecedented, making big data look like a virtual triangle-shaped bundle, whose base is continually growing larger as we speak. The older information lies somewhere beneath this immediate bunch of huge data, and this structure determines the prevalence
Any network, from small to complex, needs a comprehensive network monitoring foundation that enables the network administrators to track network behavior and events, in order to intervene if necessary. The network monitoring tools come in software or software-hardware form. The continuous network
In late 2014 the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), Association of National Advertisers (ANA), and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) created the New York-based Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) for the purpose of “eliminating fraudulent digital advertising traffic, com
Shadow data is a logical derivative of shadow IT, an organizational issue that we have approached in a previous article on our MobileCurated publication. When “intra-enterprise information-technology solutions (…) compensate the busy schedule of the official IT department”, organizational data meets
