Opinions & Analysis

IT security leaders in businesses across the globe are stuck with their hands behind their backs when it comes to fighting off cybercrime. They lack influence in the boardroom and find it hard to justify the budgets they need; inevitably making their businesses more vulnerable. The phenomenon is one of the findings of a new report from Kaspersky Lab, which has found that 86% of CISOs now believe cybersecurity breaches to be inevitable, with financially...

By Luke Rodeheffer and Mike Mimoso Most often, headlines fixate only on the loss of sensitive personal data and payment card information in the wake of a data breach. There is another—and often ignored—piece to this segment of the underground economy: cashing out by criminals, in particular through fraudulent purchases. A network of illicit communities support this part of the theft and fraud lifecycle, and offer a range services that include the creation of shipping...

Joe Collinwood at CySure addresses misunderstanding surrounding cookies and consent in terms of GDPR The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018 with great fanfare, and rightly so. It is the most significant change to data protection legislation in Europe for over two decades and puts individuals back in the driving seat of how their data is used. However, there continues to be a lot of confusion within the...

Written by Ewen O’Brien, EMEA Director, BitSight In light of the almost daily news of companies suffering security breaches, the need for assessing the risk profile of third- and fourth-party suppliers has never been more necessary than it is today. A company may have its own computing infrastructure secured, but the rest of its digital supply chain often remains overlooked. The recent attacks reported by Bloomberg show an increasing severity and sophistication of global supply...

Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organisations, announced with Lastline®, the leader in AI-powered network security, a partnership agreement that will incorporate Lastline’s advanced malware detection technology into Tripwire’s Malware Detection Service. Tripwire’s resulting solution combines Lastline malware analysis with Tripwire® Enterprise's change detection capabilities to identify malware as soon as it is introduced to a system. "Cyber incidents always involve some kind of change to...

By Asaf Cidon, VP email security, Barracuda Networks Facebook is never far from the news agenda, so it was no surprise to see the company under the media spotlight again when it was revealed that a recent hack exposed the personal information of 30m users. After polling visitors to Cloud Expo earlier this year on their views of Facebook and data privacy, we took to the floor at the IP Expo show in London earlier...

New figures published by Cifas show an alarming increase in incidences of fraud among young people. The number of identity fraud victims among under-21s has reached a new peak, increasing by 24% in 2018. Cifas is urging banks to ‘do more to inform and educate young people’ as a 26% increase of under-21s acting as ‘money mules’ is also revealed Today, Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service, has released startling new figures showing a...

Flashpoint, the global leader in Business Risk Intelligence (BRI), today announced that Senior Malware Analyst Ronnie Tokazowski has accepted the prestigious JD Falk Award from the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), on behalf of the Business Email Compromise (BEC) Working Group. The award recognises people who are committed to making a better online world, and Tokazowski is being honoured for creating this group in 2015. Since then, the group has helped stop...

Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT) (TASE: ALLT), a leading global provider of innovative network intelligence and security solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide, released findings from its latest Telco Security Trends Report that examines the confidence of Internet of Things (IoT) device security by consumers living in connected homes. The report reveals that consumers have low confidence in the security of their IoT devices and are willing to pay extra for security to safeguard...

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today released the latest findings of the Breach Level Index, a global database of public data breaches, revealing 945 data breaches led to 4.5 billion data records being compromised worldwide in the first half of 2018. Compared to the same period in 2017, the number of lost, stolen or compromised records increased by a staggering 133 per cent, though the total number of breaches slightly decreased over the...