Are cyber-threats keeping you up at night? You are not alone, dear reader. As hackers have become more skilled, there has been a rise in the number, severity and sophistication of cyber-attacks inflicting organizations of all sizes, all around the world. According to infosecurity-magazine.com ,
“If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What’s more, you deserve to be hacked.” – Richard Clarke While the former National Coordinator for Security for the United States does make a valid point regarding the importance of a strong security posture, money won’t keep you
The cybersecurity market continues its steady growth, with a 7 percent increase in 2017 – $86.4 billion, and going up to $93 billion in 2018, according to Gartner’s latest forecast. But information security is just part of the larger cybersecurity market that includes: IT security, consumer sec
Compartmentalization in cyber security is exactly what the term lets us assume it would be. In order to reduce risks, experts employ a smart firewall and divide users into categories. Nevertheless, at this year’s RSA conference multiple vendors discussed a different type of compartmentalization. D
Surveillance is a passive cyber-threat. It does not block computers or alter the software. It is just lurking in the shadows, taking note of every single action cyber-users perform. According to a MonsterCloud report, mass surveillance is the public enemy number one in 2017. It managed to even
It is not hard to decode M2M technology, even for the less experienced of us. An abbreviation for machine to machine communication, M2M involves networked devices communicating among themselves. Without any manual assistance from humans, that is. M2M and IoT While IoT is all the tech online buzz
Sustainability in cyber-security may seem like a made up notion, but it isn’t. We stumbled upon it in CSO Online’s article on how DDoS Dyn attacks could have been prevented. When putting things into perspective, cyber sustainability makes a lot of sense. Especially in cyber-security. But let’s extra
As some of you may have noticed in different occasions, sometimes our Internet interactions come up as puzzling experiences. For example, I spotted this foreign-sounding words in the denomination of a Facebook image whose link I received while being logged out of my account: Beveiligingscontrole.
What should a company mark down as ‘done’ when it comes to a strong cyber-defense internal policy that also depends of its employees, besides using the right software tools? Cyber awareness policies, obviously. We have previously approached the recommended organizational cyber-strategies when it com
In-depth cyber defense sees the process of stopping attacks as being only half of the protection activity. Going to the roots of the incident or of the event and thus preparing the system in order to fend off future similar situations is the subsidiary defense move that completes any cyber-shield.
