One of the most-heard complaints from security experts is that often they find their work repetitive ("The CFO's laptop has been compromised... again!"), which results in the desire of trying something "new", meaning "leave for another company." Another common complaint is that the work is very compartmentalized, and...
In this seminal report on the state of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry, 20 of the industry's leading CISOs share how attackers have evolved over the past year, the biggest concern these security leaders have (HINT: it's not cybersecurity for most) and how confident they are in their cybersecurity...
The goals of cybercriminals using automated bots are always the same - account takeovers, fake account creation, theft of unused gift card balances, and similar types of criminal activity that disrupt normal business operations.
This report presents the results of an in-depth survey on current practices that larger...
Despite the growing cybersecurity threat targeting mobile financial services applications, many financial institutions are failing when it comes to protecting their apps. Research conducted by advisory firm Aite Group uncovered widespread security deficiencies among mobile consumer finance apps leading to the exposure...
Best practices for protecting mobile banking apps
Mobile banking applications present financial institutions with an opportunity for tremendous revenue growth. They also create an attractive attack vector for bad actors looking to steal the trove of personal information these apps collect. Recent global surveys show...
Before public cloud services, large-scale computing infrastructure was expensive, hosted on-premises and reserved for big enterprises, governments, and universities. Now, anyone with a credit card can access an unlimited supply of cloud apps and computing power.
While cloud computing offers many benefits, its...
Estimating potential cyber intruder activities and what attack path they may take to access our critical assets is important in understanding how we prioritize our security measures.
This whitepaper focuses on an optimized method for automatically assessing those attack routes taking into account the challenges found...
It seems that every security vendor is hyping Artificial Intelligence (AI), creating unrealistic expectations and causing some security pros to simply tune it all out. The reality is that AI is a powerful, indeed essential, component of security against today's advanced threats. The attacks simply are too numerous,...
The impact of chargeback rates is abundantly clear and easily measurable, but the financial impact of false declines - rejecting perfectly good customers over fear of fraud - is largely underestimated. In reality, these
mistakes, which are all too common but difficult to track, end up costing merchants significantly...
Fraud is scary, and there are many valid reasons for retail merchants to decline suspicious transactions in the name of fraud prevention. But often, in the quest to avoid abuse, risk-averse vendors take defensive measures too far. According to industry data, the average merchant loses 5.5% of their revenue to false...
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The financial services industry gets phished more than most. How well do banks and other institutions defend themselves? In some respects quite well, but no one should be complacent.
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How FinServ maintains an above-average resiliency to...
Organizations need full visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud activity, app and vendor details, usage trends, and risk profiles to enable cloud adoption in a secure and organized fashion. Once you understand the landscape, then you can start to make decisions and manage usage.
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The 2019 Insider Data Breach survey gathered responses from 252 U.S. and 253 U.K.-based IT leaders (CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and IT Directors) and 2004 U.S. and 2003 U.K.-based employees to assess the root causes of these employee-driven data breaches, as well as the frequency and impact of such instances.
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Asset management - it's not the most exciting thing in the world. In an industry with technologies like automation, machine learning, and AI, asset management doesn't get a whole lot of attention, but it's foundational and one of the biggest problems organizations face today.
Security teams' jobs continue to get...
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