Trump won the election and must now face the stark realities of what it takes to run a nation, and actually be the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Funny thing about governing, though–making wild claims and […]
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Every year at the RSA Conference hundreds—maybe thousands—of security vendors crowd into the Moscone Center in San Francisco with claims that their products or services are better. “Better” is a relative measure, but generally speaking the assertion is either that
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Organizations and IT security professionals spend a lot of time focusing on guarding against external threats–building up the defensive wall that keeps internal systems and data safe from outside attackers. Those efforts are all well and good, but miss the
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Every day there seems to be a new malware threat that we hear about, from remotely controlling cars and medical equipment, to attacks on well-known security vendors such as Kaspersky Lab and Bitdefender. Each threat seems to be bigger and
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The standard security tools like firewalls and antimalware suites do an adequate job of defending against most malware and exploits, but attackers figured out long ago that the easiest part of the security model to break or circumvent is the
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Breaches big and small have been in the news, from small organizations losing banking files to global groups like Sony losing seemingly everything to hackers. But with the recent Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack that was revealed recently, with
The OPM data breach was probably inevitable Read More »
The challenges in protecting hospitals from cyber attacks are very similar to those faced in ICS and SCADA environments; the equipment used in hospitals is not user-serviceable and therefore often running out-of-date software or firmware. This creates a dangerous situation
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Last week hackers stole the personal information of 4 million federal workers after the Office of Personnel Management and Interior Department were compromised. Another case of hacking was reported this week and this time the victim is the U. S.
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I’ve been saying for years that the traditional methods of defending against malware are flawed and unsustainable. It’s a reactive security model in the first place–the bad guys always get the first move. With millions of new malware exploits and
You can’t defend against every possible scenario, and you can’t defend yourself effectively if you don’t understand who the enemy is or what tools and tactics the enemy is likely to employ. Threat intelligence is critical for effective security because
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