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What keeps you awake at night? We asked IT security professionals the same question and found that these issues are top of mind: malware and spear phishing, securing mobile devices, employee security awareness and new technologies that detect threats capable of bypassing traditional signature-based defenses. In previous years cyberattacks were on a steady and alarming rise. But now, data shows...

Today Frost & Sullivan, a leading analyst firm and growth partnership company, announced that Centrify has earned the North American Product Leadership Award for its Next-Gen Access Solution for Zero Trust Security. The report specifically noted Centrify’s success as a security company comes by challenging traditional approaches to security and using a unique philosophy to address the problem. Centrify...

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The Widening Gap Data breaches by insiders are very challenging to catch. The gap between the rise of insider threats and speed of hunting them down is increasingly widening. According to 2017 Data Breach Investigation Report by Verizon, a great majority of insider and privileged-misuse breaches go undetected months or even years (Figure 1). To make matters worse, it has...

For GDPR compliance initiatives to work effectively, there has to be buy-in from the boardroom. That doesn’t just mean releasing the necessary funds to bolster efforts ahead of 25 May, but understanding the need for long-term cultural and process changes to the organisation in the years to follow. However, with less than 100 days to go until the compliance deadline,...

Posts from The State of Security for 03/02/2018

We recently saw a new DDoS amplification attack vector via memcached servers that culminated in two massive DDoS amplification attacks on February 28. Both attacks were mitigated successfully. Here’s how memchached servers work and how the attacks unfolded. Memcached servers Unless updated within the last two days, memcached servers listen on UDP port 11211 by default. This can be exploited to produce...

The Zero Trust Security approach could empower organizations and protect their customers in ways that go far beyond typical security concerns. On January 12, 2018, cybersecurity firm Trend Micro revealed that Russia-linked hackers tried to infiltrate the US Senate, leveraging phishing attacks to harvest access credentials. These tactics suggest that the hackers were laying the groundwork for a widespread compromise of Senate...

In 2017, we saw a number of changes to the world of financial threats and new actors emerging. As we have previously noted, fraud attacks in financial services have become increasingly account-centric. User data is a key enabler for large-scale fraud attacks, and frequent data breaches – among other successful attack types – have provided cybercriminals with valuable sources...