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KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, reviewed the results of tens of thousands of simulated phishing tests over the course of Q2 2019 and found that more than 50 percent of those related to social media had “LinkedIn” in the title. With this information, organisations need to train their users how to recognise and manage phishing emails that come into the corporate network. KnowBe4’s analysis shows that...

Navisite, a part of Spectrum Enterprise, the enterprise-focused arm of Charter Communications, Inc., and Alert Logic, the SIEMless Threat Management™ company, today announced the availability of an enhanced, fully integrated portfolio of Managed Threat Detection and Remediation services for enterprise cloud clients. Navisite is leveraging Alert Logic’s award-winning SIEMless Threat Management platform to expand security offerings for clients. Alert Logic’s platform is tightly integrated in Navisite’s managed security service, enabling automated threat monitoring and remediation,...

Securonix, Inc., the leader in next-gen SIEM, today announced that it has achieved SOC2 + HITRUST Type 2 certification for the Securonix SaaS environment. This is the latest advancement in Securonix’s ongoing commitment to provide a highly secure and industry compliant environment for protecting and safeguarding client information. The certification validates Securonix’s adherence to state and federal security, privacy, and regulatory standards for healthcare data. The Securonix SaaS platform operates on AWS, the most secure...

By Jamie Field, MD, TopLine Film It’s been a tough time for the UK fintech industry. First, Investec pulled the plug on Click & Invest (its robo-advice venture) and, a week later, Loot went into administration. Hendrik du Toit, the co-chief executive of Investec, later said of the fintech industry as a whole: “to think you can create a parallel financial sector to the existing one is a fallacy.” It seems that the fintech industry...

The annual European Cybersecurity Blogger’s Awards, sponsored by Synopsys and hosted by Eskenzi PR, took place on Tuesday night in London. The fun and lively awards ceremony was compered by Canon Europe’s director of information security, Quentyn Taylor and Javvad Malik, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4. Infosecurity bloggers and judges voted for their favourite cybersecurity related blogs, vlogs, Twitter and Instagram accounts and the results were revealed at the Hand & Flower Pub in Olympia....

The solution is making its debut at Card Forum 2019, the annual gathering of card and payment executives from the industry’s leading issuers, networks, retailers and innovators. Card Forum 2019 is being held this week in New Orleans. comforte AG has over a decade of history working with payment service providers (PSPs) to achieve compliance with data security regulations, in particular PCI DSS, as well as with more recent legislation such as the EU's General...

By: Andrew Clarke, director of strategic alliances & channel partnerships, One Identity. Within the VDBIR, one of the factors that continues to plague the public sector are breaches that use privileged credentials, either by misuse or by error – with that alone accounting for 30% of breaches. This arises due to uncontrolled and unmanaged privileged accounts – or the accounts required for critical administrative tasks. These are often performed by third parties and therefore become...

Gigamon Application Intelligence provides visibility into complex digital apps, helping companies with their digital transformation A failure to transform digitally, and keep pace with the likes of Airbnb and Uber, has been cited as the main reason over half of the Fortune 500 companies have disappeared since 2000. But to successfully execute a digital transformation, companies must see, manage and secure the complex digital applications that are at the heart of their evolution – whether...

Expanded Free Version of the World’s Most Widely Adopted Vulnerability Assessment Solution. Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, has announced Nessus® Essentials, an enhanced free version of its market-defining vulnerability assessment solution (formerly Nessus Home). Nessus Essentials is designed to be used by students, professors and people who are starting their cybersecurity careers, helping the next generation to quickly and easily master vulnerability assessment and hone their skills. Global demand for cybersecurity professionals has outstripped...

If you’ve loved working in cybersecurity and want to give back you can do so by supporting the Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards. The Awards have been set up to reward all those great women and men who work tirelessly behind the scenes, day in – day out to protect us from cyber-attacks but rarely get any kind of recognition. At last you can nominate these folks and it doesn’t cost anything – but hold...