Tripwire Black Hat Survey: "68% of Pros Felt Cyber Security Lacking After WannaCry & Petya Attacks"

Aug 13, 2017 8:21:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Over two-thirds of Infosec Pros who were asked at Black Hat if they felt their organizations had made the necessary cyber security improvements since the WannaCry and Petya attacks ...

43% of C-suite execs name cybersecurity as No. 1 operational challenge

Jul 20, 2017 3:42:28 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A global survey over 400 C-suite execs by the management consulting firm A.T. Kearney showed that cybersecurity (43 percent) is the top operational challenge they faced. Also, a whopping ...

Cyber Security Pros Work Weekends And Still Feel Unprepared

Jul 15, 2017 10:30:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Recent surveys by Farsight and Anomali find that 57% of InfoSec pros work weekends, and nearly a third of survey respondents noted they work on average 10-hour days, but also, one in ...

UN Report Shows the Whole World Needs a Cybersecurity Upgrade. Oh, Really...

Jul 7, 2017 5:29:31 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Joseph Steinberg at Inc. Mag wrote : "A UN report released this week shows that despite global awareness of the proliferation of cybercrime and cyber-spying, many nations - including some ...

Security Awareness Training Can Lower Your Cyberinsurance Premium

Jun 25, 2017 10:15:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New-school security awareness training might even pay for itself from Day 1! How? Call your cybersecurity insurance carrier or agent and specifically ask if you get a discount on the ...

Federal Contractor? Insider Threat Training Deadline June 1- Don't Lose Your Clearance

Jun 7, 2017 4:38:21 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Insider Threat Training Requirement for US Gov't Contractors (Deadline May 31, 2017) SANS just alerted US federal contractors that wish to maintain their clearances must have completed an ...

How A Fake Cybersecurity Statistic Raced Through Washington

May 29, 2017 11:02:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Nextgov wrote: "It’s the kind of figure that can make your jaw drop, the kind that forces lawmakers and public officials to get off their duffs and do something, that drives home the way ...

How Good Is Antivirus Software At Protecting Itself? 32 Products Tested:

May 8, 2017 7:01:53 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

For the third time now, the experts at AV-TEST examined a large number of the security software applications on the market in terms of how well they protect themselves. The focus was on ...

Warren Buffett: "Cyber Security Is The Number One Problem With Mankind".

May 7, 2017 12:15:48 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Business Insider just wrote: "Warren Buffett sees cyber attacks as a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear weapons. "I'm very pessimistic on weapons of mass destruction generally ...

Cyber Security: “We have met the enemy and it is us.”

May 5, 2017 5:16:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Laura DiDio, Principal at ITIC, a research and consulting firm based in the Boston area. “We have met the enemy and it is us.” This quote aptly describes the current state of security ...

UK Cybersecurity Report: "Ransomware Is Urgent Issue"

Apr 19, 2017 12:10:15 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today, the UK Government issued a comprehensive report called: "Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2017" and covered the skyrocketing ransomware infections. The report highlighted: "The ...

The three ‘B’s’ of cybersecurity for small businesses

Apr 19, 2017 11:16:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I just found a great article by Scott Shackelford, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics; Director, Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance; ...

[ALERT] You Want To Fix This MS-Word 0-day Threat Today

Apr 12, 2017 7:43:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Monday night, researchers at Proofpoint sounded the alarm about a critical 0-day threat known as CVE-2017-0199 in Microsoft Word that allowed booby-trapped Dridex phishing attacks be sent ...

IT Security Is Broken Bad

Aug 18, 2013 11:48:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

With the TV show Breaking Bad in its last season, this seems to be a fun title. However, the topic is not all that much fun. You should realize it's not a question of when you will be ...

Forbes: IT Security Industry To Expand Tenfold

Aug 15, 2013 10:31:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Richard Stiennon, Forbes contributor makes a stunning prediction. He claims that most organizations have woefully underspent for IT Security and now that governments around the world have ...

91% of cyberattacks begin with spear phishing email

Nov 29, 2012 3:27:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Antony Savvas at Computerworld UK had a good write-up about this quite interesting news: "Some 91% of cyberattacks begin with a "spear phishing" email, according to research from security ...

$345,000 Cyberheist Settles After Three Years Dispute

Nov 27, 2012 9:08:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Patco Consulting was one of the first companies to seek protection via the courts after more than half a million dollars was stolen out of their bank via an account takeover by eastern ...

One phishing email exposes millions of people to data theft in South Carolina cyberattack

Nov 21, 2012 1:45:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

NBC News reported: COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A single malicious email sent to workers at the South Carolina Department of Revenue last August enabled an international hacker to crack into state ...

VCs Validate Security Awareness Training

Nov 18, 2012 6:32:20 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I am very encouraged to see our friends at PhishMe getting 2.5 Million in Venture money to expand their business. With this new investment, Christopher Steed, Vice President at Paladin ...

Alarming number of merchants unaware of PCI DSS

Nov 7, 2012 9:38:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Help Net Security had the story: The last four years have been marked by continued growth in small business data compromise, yet small business owners are still missing the point of the ...

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