The past days have brought bad news for Huawei—and the worst might be yet to come. President Trump issued an executive order giving the federal government the power to bar American companies from doing business with foreign suppliers that could pose a threat to national security. Chinese firm H
For most people, a new year means a fresh start. For security managers, each year brings a new wave of increasingly sophisticated cyber threats—and staying on top is not easy. Cybercriminals are constantly innovating and finding new ways to compromise corporate data, and staying one step ahead is t
Normally, updating system software as frequently as possible would be a good thing. You get new features, patch bugs, and keep your security software up to date with the latest threats. Unfortunately, in the case of Windows 10, it’s a bit more complicated. According to a recent Microsoft blog post
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
