Early in the adoption of enterprise mobility, iOS was considered the “better” choice. A more stable and consistent operation system was preferable for developing custom apps, and Apple’s iOS operating system was believed to be inherently more secure than Google’s Android due to the controlled app store ecosystem and better app sandboxing mechanisms. Fast forward to today and we see that…
Fraudsters are a smart group. With each fraud prevention method that’s introduced, they figure out ways to work around it. Organizations must be careful when using technologies that fraudsters may have compromised, but that doesn’t mean throwing everything out and starting from scratch. As with many things, in security and fraud prevention one tool is never enough. An alarm system makes your home…
It's no secret digital consumers increasingly purchase goods and services via cross-border transactions. Digital commerce has essentially created a global economy without borders. In fact, according to Nielsen’s Global Connected Commerce Report, in February 2016, 57 percent of the respondents made a cross-border e-commerce purchase in the past six months. Recognizing this trend, businesses are…
By Alberto Yépez, managing director of early stage venture capital firm Trident Capital Cybersecurity The cybersecurity industry has a talent shortage, yet not many realize just how severe it is. And, more importantly, they don’t realize what corporations struggling with the problem must do to get a grip on it. To solve the challenge, corporations must develop new hiring and training strategies…
The flight was long, and all you want to do now is get to your room, have a drink, and go to sleep. You sit down at the desk in your room, log onto the hotel’s Wi-Fi and log into your email. This is about the time your phone beeps. It’s almost dead. Luckily, your room has a charging station right on the desk… How convenient! The iPod needs to be charged too, so it is slipped into the hotel’s…
At the 2016 RSA Conference, there was a lot of buzz surrounding the importance of global threat intelligence sharing. In fact, of the more than 500 exhibitors at the annual conference, 79 companies include threat intelligence sharing as part of their business model. However, such information sharing only works when done right—in an anonymized way that takes into account each user’s full digital…
With a 38 percent rise in security incidents between 2014 and 2015 and a 26 percent increase in the cost per breach, organizations are under pressure to reduce risk. Unfortunately, hiring qualified staff to do that is becoming more difficult, with over 200,000 cybersecurity jobs going unfilled. It is no surprise that analysts are forecasting rapid growth in the use of managed security service…
By Venkat Rangan, CTO at Clari A lot has been written about cloud applications and what an organization needs to do to protect their information assets when moving their applications to the cloud. The Cloud Security Alliance in their The Notorious Nine Cloud Computing Threats summarizes the threats to an organization when they sign up for a SaaS application or engage with a SaaS provider, but very…
The history of technology is replete with instances of security researchers finding a flaw in a product. The vendors then discount the issue and mock the findings; saying it’s only a theoretical vulnerability. They may even resort to suing the researchers. When the vulnerability becomes widespread, these vendors then run to patch their insecure product. We are in that situation now with…
The Cybersecurity Act of 2015 is approaching its three-month birthday, but you can be excused if you’re oblivious to that. After all, many people probably don’t know it even exists. Very quietly, the law—the first major piece of Congressional cybersecurity legislation, one designed to address the explosive growth of successful cyberattacks—was signed into law in mid-December 2015 by President…
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