In spite of heavy investments in security technology and top-notch security personnel, retailers and hospitality firms have an Achilles Heel unique to their business–the point of sale (POS) device. With POS devices handling most of the payment card transactions around […]
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“You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
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A recent study from Kaspersky Lab found that it costs significantly more to protect a virtual infrastructure. The survey determined that virtual servers are more likely to run mission-critical applications or contain sensitive data–making a successful attack against the virtual
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TalkTalk–a London-based phone and broadband company–has been breached by hackers. The attack could possibly have compromised sensitive data on all of its 4 million customers. A TalkTalk spokesperson called it a “significant and sustained” attack. I know it’s almost the
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Mobile has greatly increased the number devices that threaten enterprise organizations—large and small. Any device that touches a company’s mobile ecosystem can impact its security—including corporate-owned, employee, vendor and customer devices. In addition to devices, user activity and actions on
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European regulators are serious about data protection reform. They’re inches away from finalising the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is a rewrite of the existing rules of the road for data protection and privacy spelled out in their legacy
5 things you need to know about the proposed EU General Data Protection Regulation Read More »
They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but when it comes to cyber security, healthcare organizations need a stronger prescription. Healthcare is a top target for hackers today because security defenses may be fairly easy to breach
Top 3 prescriptions for healthcare in the age of hacking Read More »
Information security is everyone’s job. Every person is responsible for exercising some common sense and cautious skepticism and doing his or her part to protect company data and network resources from exploits and compromise. Most of those people also have
The buck stops at the CISO when it comes to information security Read More »
2014 was dubbed as ‘the year of the data breach’. With many new data breaches dominating the headlines in 2015, including Anthem, the White House, banking attacks, and the latest employee data theft at the US federal government, one can
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It’s a simple premise that applies to virtually all areas of your life: You have to assess where you are in order to formulate a plan to get where you want to be. If I just show you a map
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