French film production and distribution company Pathe fired the two senior managers overseeing its Dutch operations after they fell victim to a business email compromise scam and approved $21 million in transfers to fraudsters. Many organizations remain at high risk from such scams.
A vulnerability is only as bad as the threat exploiting it and the impact on the organization. Security and risk management leaders should rate vulnerabilities on the basis of risk in order to improve vulnerability management program effectiveness.
Gartner receives frequent inquiries from clients who are...
The security operations center (SOC) faces mountain challenges: lack of personnel, disparate security tools, multiple alerts that must be run down, prioritization of alerts and the transition between incident detection and incident response.
Security affects and is affected by operational and IT considerations....
Organizations are increasingly moving their mission-critical applications and data to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and taking advantage of the massive compute power of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform for AWS provides extensive and detailed visibility over Amazon EC2...
More than two weeks after announcing that the Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, had been hacked, the Department of Health and Human Services has revealed that the breach exposed a wealth of information, including partial Social Security numbers and immigration status.
Choosing the right platform to build your agency's security operations center is arguably more important than choosing any point security product. But are you aware of the criteria you should consider when evaluating which Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platform to choose?
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By establishing a trusted digital relationship with users, insurers can enable legitimate consumers to apply for new policies and legitimate providers and insurance professionals to log in to their accounts without onerous authentication requirements, while requiring users identified as high risk to fulfill additional...
To deliver a better, frictionless experience, organizations should consider real-time, multilayered, omnichannel identity trust assessments that analyze a wide variety of intelligence - including network, device, environment, behavioral and global intelligence.
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Bankers Life is notifying more than 566,000 individuals, including Medicare supplemental insurance policyholders, that their personal information was exposed in a hacking incident. Employee credentials were compromised, enabling unauthorized access to certain company websites containing personal data.
An analysis of a crackdown on criminals' use of encrypted communications leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also: a preview of ISMG's Healthcare Security and Legal & Compliance summits, including expert insights on vendor risk management.
Once again, a supposedly secure service allegedly marketed to criminals has proven to have limits. Dutch police have busted a "cryptophone" operation, allowing them to decrypt more than 258,000 encrypted chat messages, leading to a drug lab bust, 14 arrests and the seizure of cash, drugs and weapons.
When it comes to IT infrastructure, it's fair to say the perimeter has left the premises. In fact,
the perimeter has mostly disappeared. We are living in a new reality, one crowded with new types of dynamic IT assets.
Whether
it's discovering short-lived assets like containers, assessing the state of cloud...
This 2018 Osterman Research Survey Report focused on understanding current security processes and how organizations are working to improve and automate them.
The research was conducted in the US, EMEA and APAC regions with 465 professional respondents who were knowledgeable about security policy management in their...
Digital transformation (DX) continues to drive growth across financial services firms, creating new opportunities to increase revenue and foster innovation. Cloud - whether public, private or a hybrid approach - is foundational to achieving DX objectives, as is secure, resilient and scalable network connectivity....
HSBC Bank is warning some of its U.S. customers that their personal data was compromised in a breach, although it says it's detected no signs of fraud following the "unauthorized entry." Security experts say the heist has all the hallmarks of a credential-stuffing attack campaign.
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