This Week's Gurus

The role of automation in incident response John Bruce, CEO & co-founder, Resilient Systems Faster response can make the all the difference when faced with a cyber threat.  Getting there is an emerging priority for cybersecurity professionals, and organisations are still working to develop an expertise and develop best practices. Automation is becoming a trend as organisations see it as a way to become faster – but there are limits on using automation in IR....

Tackling cyber security as a collaborative team Matthias Maier, Security evangelist, Splunk  Cyber security has long been seen as a technology problem. Speak to any security professional and the proverbial ‘needle in the haystack’ often comes up when sifting through the different components in the wake of an attack. Barely a week goes by without large corporations hitting the headlines as a result of a malicious attack, and in this landscape we need to be...

Beating the cyber criminals at their own game By James Chappell, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Digital Shadows The age of digital business has, for the most part, been positive. It has increased the ease and speed of communication while at the same time as reducing the cost. But with more than 3 billion individuals interacting across social media, mobile and cloud services every day it means that digital footprints are increasing. With this comes...

Infosec 2040 – Neural Implants Hacked By Mike Small, senior analyst, Kuppinger Cole What does the future hold for IT security? That was the question I was asked to address in my talk to the 50th anniversary meeting of the BCS IRMA (Information Risk Management and Assurance) group.  Here are some thoughts on the evolution of information security over the next 25 years made with help from the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway. Making...

Smart watches: don’t let your network become a fashion victim By Andrew Young, VP at Watchguard The rapid development of mobile processors and internet bandwidth continues to significantly influence the way we work. Whilst employees use as many as three or four personal devices to tap into the corporate network from anywhere at any time, they often give little - if any - thought to the subsequent security implications which arise from granting network privileges...

The Retailers Guide to Black Friday By Fred Touchette, senior security analyst at AppRiver What started as a US marketing initiative is unarguably now a popular Christmas tradition – both in the US and UK too. Black Friday, the first Friday after Thanksgiving, is when historically bricks and mortar US retailers reduce prices in a bid to kick-start the gift buying season. Today it is no longer confined to just physical stores as online promotions have become...

How to secure banking transactions with mobile devices, if at all possible  Clearly, banking with your smartphone is quick and handy. But again and again, we hear about huge breaches of mobile banking transactions. Greedy hackers are becoming more and more aggressive and their attacks more elaborated. Is there still a way to make mobile transactions relatively secure?  Often mobileTAN is being praised as a safe and flexible alternative to online banking with transaction authentication...

Don’t allow your Wi-Fi to become a security risk By Mike van Bunnens, Managing Director, Comms365 Guest Wi-Fi is a standard offering for growing numbers of organisations from hotels, cafes and sports centres offering free Wi-Fi to customers, to businesses providing Wi-Fi for partners, suppliers and customers visiting the office. But how many organisations have any idea about the way in which that Wi-Fi network is being used? Not only does the company have a clear...

Generation Z: adept with technology but vulnerable to fraud Andrew Thomas, managing director, CSID Europe This year’s school and university leavers make up the first wave of Generation Z: those born after the creation of the Web, and the first that has only ever known the always on, always connected world in which we now live.  Much is made of their facility with modern devices, and the ease with which they juggle quantities of information...

Why Identity is the perimeter you should care about Traditional Options for Protecting Your Network’s Perimeter Most, if not all organisations protect themselves at the perimeter with one or more firewalls, and additionally, many organisations add layers of protection inside the network and the DMZ. Vendors offer a vast array of products to help, including intrusion detection systems, intrusion prevention systems, email filtering, and anti-virus and anti- malware software. Organisations can also choose more modern...