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68 great ideas for running a security department

Looking for inspiration? Want to learn a few new ways to elevate your security game? Can you spare five minutes to think strategically and long-term instead of just putting out another fire?To read...

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Data breaches will affect 1.5 billion people by 2020

IDC predicts that by 2020, more than 1.5 billion people, or roughly one-quarter of the world's population, will be affected by data breaches.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please...

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This is how much spear phishing costs companies

New research from messaging security provider Cloudmark and technology research company Vanson Bourne provides new insight into IT professionals' views and experiences with spear phishing attacks, as...

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Data destruction 101: There's more to it than wiping your drive

In 2009, a team of journalists who were investigating the electronic waste, purchased a computer in a Ghana market that was found to contain "sensitive documents belonging to U.S. government...

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2016 data breach blotter: The damage so far

Another day, another data breachImage by ThinkstockThere were 736 million records exposed in 2015 due to a record setting 3,930 data breaches. 2016 has only just started, and as the blotter shows,...

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Panama Papers leak explained: What you need to know about the Mossack Fonseca...

You've doubtless heard about the Panama Papers, a leak of 2.6TB of documents from the one of the world's largest offshore law firms, Mossack Fonseca. The dump of over 11 million files containing...

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By the numbers: Cyber attack costs compared

Data breaches caused by malicious insiders and malicious code can take as long 50 days or more to fix, according to Ponemon Institute's 2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study. While malware, viruses, worms,...

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Study reveals security gap in big data projects

Ideally, the ultimate output of big-data analysis can provide a company with a valuable competitive advantage. But those results aren’t getting much additional security, according to an IDG Enterprise...

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Study: More than 50% of small businesses were breached in the past year

A new study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by password management provider Keeper Security analyzed the state of cybersecurity in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and found...

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Who's responsible for data compliance? 25% of execs don't know

According to the 2016 State of Compliance survey conducted by data management and integration provider Liaison Technologies, one-quarter of top executives are unclear who in their organization is...

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Despite costly attacks, 85% of business leaders confident in preparedness

Eighty-five percent of organizations believe they have the right controls in place to protect against such attacks. Yet, 40 percent of them have been victims of cyber attacks within the last six...

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Hacking the 2016 election: A timeline

History has yet to judge the 2016 presidential election, but from where we sit in the early days of 2017, it’s hard to imagine that it will ever be relegated to a footnote.To read this article in full...

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Data breaches will affect 1.5 billion people by 2020

IDC predicts that by 2020, more than 1.5 billion people, or roughly one-quarter of the world's population, will be affected by data breaches.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

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This is how much spear phishing costs companies

New research from messaging security provider Cloudmark and technology research company Vanson Bourne provides new insight into IT professionals' views and experiences with spear phishing attacks, as...

View Article

Data destruction 101: There's more to it than wiping your drive

In 2009, a team of journalists who were investigating the electronic waste, purchased a computer in a Ghana market that was found to contain "sensitive documents belonging to U.S. government...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

2016 data breach blotter: The damage so far

Another day, another data breachImage by ThinkstockThere were 736 million records exposed in 2015 due to a record setting 3,930 data breaches. 2016 has only just started, and as the blotter shows,...

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Panama Papers leak explained: What you need to know about the Mossack Fonseca...

You've doubtless heard about the Panama Papers, a leak of 2.6TB of documents from the one of the world's largest offshore law firms, Mossack Fonseca. The dump of over 11 million files containing...

View Article


By the numbers: Cyber attack costs compared

Data breaches caused by malicious insiders and malicious code can take as long 50 days or more to fix, according to Ponemon Institute's 2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study. While malware, viruses, worms,...

View Article

Study reveals security gap in big data projects

Ideally, the ultimate output of big-data analysis can provide a company with a valuable competitive advantage. But those results aren’t getting much additional security, according to an IDG Enterprise...

View Article

Study: More than 50% of small businesses were breached in the past year

A new study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by password management provider Keeper Security analyzed the state of cybersecurity in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and found...

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