There’s a reason why National Cybersecurity Awareness Month coincides with the Halloween season. After all, what’s scarier than a cybercriminal making his way into an organization? Well for starters, how about the employee that may unknowingly be to blame for […]
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Cryptocurrencies are catching on with investors and traders based on their rapidly rising values, although digital currency markets remain quite volatile due to wide fluctuations in valuations, both up and down. However, such wild price swings are not the only
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Most companies have invested significantly in technology to protect their systems and data from hackers. But what’s often overlooked in cybersecurity—the human element—is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous. IBM reported in 2014 that human error is a contributing
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Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 006 My guest on this episode of the Inner Circle podcast is Corey Williams, Senior Director of Product Management at Centrify. The focus of our chat is next-gen access, and how the principle of zero trust
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Think an overcrowded inbox is scary? An empty inbox is even scarier. Imagine how your organization would be affected if you suddenly lost access to every one of your emails. Consider all the resources (money, time and manpower) that would
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Halloween is upon us. Which gives me the perfect excuse to tell this Halloween horror story: An adversary has targeted your organization and commenced a campaign to breach your defenses, establish a foothold and begin to either gather up your
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Think back for a second to the late 1990s (if you were alive and in the workplace), when every so often the nightly news included some vaguely apocalyptic sounding reference to a computer virus sweeping the globe. It was inevitably
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There is something to be said for having the right knowledge to avoid a cyber threat. In spite of using relatively little security tools, security professionals are generally less likely to become compromised. On the other hand, many average or
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This last year or so has been somewhat of a showcase for how not to do security. Much of last month was hundreds of thousands of us dealing with the fact that the NSA likely spent millions finding an exploit
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Can we just assume at this point that there is no such thing as confidential or secret data? I mean, if it hasn’t been compromised and exposed yet, it seems like it’s only a matter of time and opportunity. The
