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Two new reports from lead author Professor Nick Jennings of Imperial College London and other cybersecurity experts assert that device manufacturers have a larger burden to protect consumers from cybersecurity attacks than the device users themselves. The report points out that although it’s important for users to be as proactive as possible in that regard, many people don’t know the most effective ways to do so. It suggests using a safety mark system that acts...

OTX Endpoint Threat Hunter Delivers Simple, Fast Threat Visibility to Assess Business Risk from Malware and Other Threats. At RSA Conference 2018, AlienVault®, the leading provider of Unified Security Management® (USM) and crowdsourced threat intelligence, today announced the launch of its OTX Endpoint Threat Hunter™, a free threat-scanning service in the Open Threat Exchange® (OTX™) available to any registered OTX user. This first-of-its-kind service natively leverages over 19 million indicators of compromise (IoCs) contributed to...

A new Total Economic Impact (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by AlienVault, a leading crowdsourced threat intelligence provider, examined the potential return on investment (ROI) for organisations that deployed the AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) Platform and has revealed excelling results for the product. Organisations that deployed the AlienVault solution saw an 80 percent improvement in threat detection and incident response time, effectively reducing the risk of a security breach and bringing down the...

New figures from the FCA show that reported data hacking attacks against financial services companies have quadrupled in the last year. The new statistics, contained in a freedom of information response to audit, tax and consulting firm RSM, show that reported incidents of loss of data resulting from hacking have risen from 4 in 2016 to 17 in 2017. There were also two separate incidents of ‘data leakage’ reported to the FCA. The figures also...

SANS Report Sponsored by DomainTools Reveals Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Gaining Momentum as Organizations Battle to Keep Up with Hackers] As cyberattacks and attackers become more blatant and pervasive each year, a new SANS Institute report, in conjunction with DomainTools, shows organizations around the globe are turning towards Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) to detect, respond, and ultimately prevent attacks. DomainTools, the leader in domain name and DNS-based cyber threat intelligence, co-sponsored the SANS survey and...

Druva, the global leader in cloud data protection and management, today announced the results of its Druva 2017 AWS Cloud Data Protection Survey, which reveals a disconnect between the perceptions of cloud data protection and its reality. The survey solicited insights from IT professionals across 20 industries, including technology, energy, financial and healthcare, regarding the state of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud adoption, enterprise secondary storage, data protection and archiving needs. According to results, one...

Enables greater flexibility for deploying automated DDoS mitigation at the scale, speed and efficacy Corero is best known for Corero Network Security (LSE: CNS), a leading provider of real-time DDoS defense solutions, announced today the availability of its SmartWall Network Threat Defense – Virtual Edition (vNTD) with full detect and mitigate capabilities. The SmartWall vNTD is a natural extension of the Corero family of automated DDoS protection solutions, enabling seamless deployment of high-performing, scalable, cost-effective protection...

The Information Security Forum (ISF) today announced the release of the ISF GDPR Implementation Guide, the organizations latest digest which presents best practices for guiding a compliance program ahead of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR Implementation Guide builds on the recently released ISF digest, Preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation, which summarizes the key requirements of the new legislation and lists the questions an organization needs to address to...

The data protection and security landscape is all set for change next year with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).  There will be regulatory burdens, but you can also use GDPR  to bring some focus on what you do and improve your security stance. If you’re serious about security, GDPR can help. Remember… The new rules are part revolution/part evolution - the new system builds on the current one if you already comply...

With mobile devices set to become the primary way to verify customer identity, Callcredit launches new suite of products to provide positive associations between identity and key digital attributes of email address and/or telephone number Research launched today by Callcredit Information Group, reveals that whilst 73% of fraud professionals think mobile devices will be the key facilitator of identification in the future, over half (60%) feel that they will present the biggest single point of...