My grandpa used to tell me that although you should reach for the clouds you should also always keep your feet firmly on the ground else your success will not last long. He never saw a cellphone in his lifetime […]
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It’s fairly simple, really. If you don’t have access to sensitive systems and data you don’t really need access to then attackers who steal or compromise your login credentials won’t have access either. One of the keys to effective security
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Imagine that it’s your responsibility to identify new malware threats, and conduct malware analysis to figure out how it works, and what it does so you can engineer an effective defense against it. Now, consider the fact that there is
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What do UMass Memorial Medical Group, Harel Chiropractic & Massage, and Morgan Stanley have in common? They all lost valuable data this year due to an insider breach. All organizations engage in some form of employee risk management when they
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Two-factor (or multi-factor authentication) is a very effective way of providing an additional layer of security for systems and data. It’s relatively trivial these days for attackers to compromise usernames and passwords, and two-factor authentication puts another line of defense
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Tech pundits and vendors have been prematurely declaring the death of email for over a decade. However, email remains the dominant form of communication for businesses and individuals around the world despite it’s shortcomings. A Radicati Group report claims that
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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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A major threat to the increasingly popular virtual currencies was recently discovered by researchers from Kaspersky and INTERPOL. The identified threat has the capacity to embed malware, illegal data, child sexual abuse images or other malicious or elicit data in
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If you’re a consumer or end-user there isn’t much (if anything) to get excited about yet. For IT admins, however, the new and improved features in the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview are very good news. Microsoft has
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In a session today at SXSW Yahoo showed it still has the ability to innovate with the introduction of new initiatives set to make its email platform more secure and simplify its email service. Yahoo believes that the ideas behind
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