Warning: Attackers behind the recently revealed Facebook mega-breach may still be able to access victims' accounts at some third-party web services and mobile apps, and Facebook has offered no timeline for when a full lockdown might occur - although there are no signs of third-party account takeovers.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning will have a significant impact on lowering the cost of securing an organization because it will reduce the need for advanced skillsets, predicts Rapid7's Richard Moseley.
An ongoing security operations center challenge is trying to get the right data to the right person at the right time. The problem is compounded by there being "too much data and not finding the right people to deal with the data," says Mischa Peters of IntSights. What can help?
Numerous technology firms now offer facial biometrics recognition search tools for big data sets. But information security expert Alan Woodward warns that these big data sets must be "considered and regulated very heavily" or else we'll be "living in 1984 without knowing it."
A computer security researcher has discovered a vast marketing database containing 340 million records on U.S. consumers. The database is the latest in a long line of databases to have been left exposed to the internet without authentication, thus putting people's personal data at risk.
Hybrid cloud adoption is accelerating within the financial services industry and few organizations have a solid understanding of how to secure hybrid cloud.
Most companies employ an array of cloud services from an array of providers, each with its own set of security controls, frameworks and products that increase...
The regulator and legislative fallout of the global financial crisis continues to place intense pressure on the financial industry.
Not only is the volume of regulations growing, so is their complexity a result of the diverse and inconsistent array of regional and jurisdictional mandates being imposed on financial...
As big-data analytics matures, it will play a bigger role, but security information and event management software, or SIEMs, will also remain essential, contends Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
It is said that "Data is the new oil." If that's the case, then organizations need to do a far better job inventorying and securing their wells.
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It is said that "Data is the new oil." If that's the case, then organizations need to do a far better job inventorying and securing their wells, says Laurence Pitt of Juniper Networks. He offers insights on leveraging and securing data.
The latest statistics on data center breaches show that perimeter firewalls are still not impenetrable. But what cyber criminals count on is what they will find beyond the perimeter - a hardware-centric security model that has remained unchanged for years.
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Since its debut two years ago, Watson for Cyber Security is now being used by analysts to help their enterprises defend against attacks. Security operations centers are using it to address challenges around the skills gap, to relive pressure from analysts and to process unstructured data.
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Earlier this year, IBM announced the availability of Watson for Cyber Security, described as "the industry's first augmented intelligence technology designed to power cognitive security operations centers." But how will Watson complement human security teams? And what do beta customers say about their initial...
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