DDoS attacks may be out of the headlines, but they have hardly disappeared as a significant business concern.
In this new 2015 DDoS Impact & Response Study of organizations in the U.S. and UK, we find:
55% of respondents say they have experienced as many or more attacks as in the past year;
60% say the attacks...
Organizations think they have done everything right, yet still they are breached. What has gone wrong? RSA's CTO Zulfikar Ramzan says it's time for security practitioners to shift to a new prevention mindset.
Amit Yoran, president of RSA, says Asian organizations must re-think their approach to security. He outlines five key steps to building a resilient cyber defense mechanism. But how do security leaders respond?
Genesis: The Nation State APT - Dr. Dale Meyerrose (Major General, USAF, Retired)
Today: The Enterprise as a Target - Eduardo Perez, (SVP, North Americas Risk, Visa)
Many elements of the breaches we now see on a daily basis are firmly rooted in mechanisms developed by nation state adversaries. We will start the...
PII breach insurance is becoming commonplace and has some value, but what about damage that goes way beyond the embarrassment, potential fraud and loss of consumer confidence resulting from PII theft? The motivations and objectives for many attacks are much broader than just financial gain, ranging from hacktivism,...
The absolute worst time to develop a breach response plan is directly after you have discovered a breach. The absolute best way to have your response team fail is to have them untrained on rarely practiced procedures while being overly reliant upon expensive, improperly configured technology. It is proven that humans...
Even though many traditional defense mechanisms can be circumvented, it is essential that a proactive, layered, defensive security program be put in place and managed effectively. This will not prevent the persistent well-organized targeted attacks, but will eliminate 99 percent of the background noise and the vast...
The wildfire growth of mobile apps has added to the security challenges of financial institutions that provide this highly in-demand method of account access. The risks are substantial but there is a way to reduce exposure while enhancing customer convenience.
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Organizations are getting increasingly prioritizing incident response capabilities by putting investigation firms on retainer, or creating their own internal teams, says Patrick Morley, president and CEO of Bit9 + Carbon Black.
Fighting fraud requires a well-rounded, defense-in-depth strategy that makes good use of appropriate threat intelligence, says Chris Richter of Level 3 Communications.
Attackers today continue to refine their distributed denial-of-service attack capabilities, delivering downtime on demand. The increase in attack effectiveness and volume demands new types of defenses, says Akamai's Richard Meeus.
Law enforcement officials estimate that fewer than 200 people in the world build the core infrastructure and tools relied on by cybercriminals who would otherwise lack such capabilities. What's the best way to stop them?
The lead cybersecurity official for Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency dismisses charges that the U.K. conducts mass surveillance. But critics question the government's introduction of the Investigatory Powers Bill.
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