The fact that Federal agencies are prime targets for the most sophisticated cyber threats is undeniable. If cyberattacks are inevitable, then robust capabilities for security investigation, threat hunting, and rapid response are essential. Government cybersecurity professionals require visibility across their silos of...
As of January 1, 2018, all SWIFT customers must self-attest to their compliance with the new SWIFT Customer Security Program (CSP). The program is designed to respond to the wave of cybercrime targeting SWIFT installations that began with the Bank of Bangladesh breach back in February 2016 and has swept across the...
Manual processes cultivate a silo-based approach to compliance, risk management, and IT security, with individual groups or departments focused on specific risks or guidelines. Regulatory requirements, operational risks and cyber-threats are now entwined and more complex. This paper outlines six key areas in which...
Spear phishing is the common trigger to many of the most popular - and successful - targeted attacks. How can organizations improve their defenses to better spot - and stop - spear phishing?
Spear phishing and messaging-based threats tend to be the first attack vector that criminals are using today in targeted...
Hospitals and healthcare organizations must ensure that both their mundane and highly-sensitive information is protected and compliant, which is where content aware data loss prevention comes in.
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How to identify project priorities and...
It's frightening what criminals can buy on the dark web. But it's even scarier that they may be buying your own security certificates to use against you. Venafi recently sponsored a six-month investigation into the sale of digital code signing certificates on the dark web. Conducted with the Cyber Security Research...
As certificate counts within the average organization rise to tens of thousands, it has become exponentially harder to manage them effectively. Many organizations turn to their certificate authorities (CAs) to protect the keys and certificates that each CA issues. The basic tools CAs provide are certainly a step up...
Enterprise intelligence combines human-led analysis and computer-driven analytics to provide actionable insights for your enterprise, so you can disrupt and neutralize threats.
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How often insider misuse is responsible for security incidents;
The average cost of a single data...
Verizon has made a strong case for continual PCI DSS awareness with its new study of payment card data security. But like many vendors that conduct their own studies supporting their business cases, Verizon makes suspect logical stretches.
Today's business climate is one of unprecedented regulatory growth, data complexity and cybersecurity concerns. There is a corresponding increase in media attention, customer awareness and Board-level scrutiny.
Organizations must demonstrate that they have a viable process for managing risk and compliance (broadly...
Implementing clouds in heavily regulated environments is either unscalable and slow, because of legacy audit requirements and processes, or simply implemented without audit controls. While these may seem like acceptable risks, the 20 million euro minimum penalty under GDPR, and the threat of blanket ransomware...
Office of Personnel Management Chief Information Officer David DeVries says negative aspects of a Government Accountability Office report on steps OPM is taking to secure its IT paint an incomplete and not fully accurate picture of the agency's cybersecurity posture.
As organizations migrate workloads to cloud computing, they benefit from flexibility and agility, but security operations grow increasingly difficult, especially when it comes to ensuring adherence to critical regulations, such as PCI-DSS, NERC or the EU's GDPR. Gaining the needed visibility into cloud environments...
Sixty-five percent of security leaders consider their organizations' security postures to be above average or superior, as compared to peers in their sectors.
Yet, only 29 percent say that they are very confident in the effectiveness of their security controls, and nearly half say that they have gaps in detecting...
It's not enough to comply with government and industry regulations such as SOX, PCI, MICS, and HIPAA. Organizations must also prove their compliance to auditors on a regular basis. Even companies not bound by regulatory requirements may need to confirm their adherence to internal IT security policies.
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