Data in non-production environments represents a significant percentage of total enterprise data volume. Non-production environments also carry more risk than production environments because there are more direct users, says Ilker Taskaya of Delphix, who discusses how organizations can reduce that risk.
Medical device vendor Becton Dickinson and U.S. federal regulators have issued security alerts about vulnerabilities that potentially put certain infusion pump products from the manufacturer at risk for remote hacker attacks.
Data breaches, incident response and complying with the burgeoning number of regulations that have an information security impact were among the top themes at this year's Infosecurity Europe conference in London. Here are 10 of the top takeaways from the conference's keynote sessions.
Upgrading to a new OS can be a significant headache for IT teams, taking
up a lot of man-hours and IT budgets. Since there is no automatic in-place
upgrade to transition from Win7's 32-bit to Win10's 64-bit version, the
migration process can be extremely time-consuming - involving multiple
manual steps that can...
Carelessness, a lack of security awareness, unclear data ownership and poor toolsets are root causes of insider breaches, says Tony Pepper, CEO of Egress, which recently surveyed CISOs and employees to trace the cause of insider breaches resulting from both intentional and unintentional loss.
Crowdsourced bug bounty programs help organizations identify severe vulnerabilities in their apps and infrastructure. But that gamification model has been evolving to supply not only penetration testing but also deep dives by single researchers, says Bugcrowd CSO David Baker.
ISMG's Healthcare Security Summit, to be held in New York on June 25, will feature a top-notch roster of expert speakers, including regulatory and law enforcement authorities, CISOs from leading healthcare provider organizations and technology thought leaders.
Not long ago, organizations could control their perimeter with relative ease. However, with companies looking toward digital transformation of business processes, myriad communication and collaboration apps are being adopted, even if they aren't given the official stamp of approval from security departments. How do...
A Google security researcher has disclosed what he calls an unpatched bug in the main cryptographic library used in newer versions of the Windows operating system that he claims could affect an entire fleet of Windows-based devices.
Britain's biggest businesses continue to inappropriately expose servers and services to the internet, putting the organizations and data at risk, according to a study by Rapid7. Tod Beardsley describes the findings, including a widespread lack of phishing defenses as well as cloud misconfigurations.
License plate and traveler photos collected at the U.S. border have been compromised after a federal government subcontractor was hacked. While Customs and Border Protection officials claim the image data hasn't been seen online, security experts say it's already available for download via a darknet site.
Given today's increasing IT complexity and scale, it's become imperative to break down the barriers between Security and IT groups and align them including their tools, processes, and skills around a common goal: delivering a fast and secure user experience while enabling business agility.
For CIOs and CISOs who...
On Tuesday, Information Security Media Group will host a Fraud & Breach Summit in Seattle that will focus on critical issues facing CISOs and their security teams. Here's a preview.
Similar to security deficiencies often found in the U.S. healthcare sector, weak security controls and practices are putting Australian patient data and hospital services at high risk for serious cyberattacks, according to a new government audit.
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