Sue Poremba

Yesterday, I wrote that Javvad Malik, security advocate at AlienVault, had three reasons for why the Internet of Things (IoT) is at risk for ransomware: the growth (and growing pains) of IoT, the evolution of ransomware, and end users who aren’t aware of the risks. I already covered the growing pains of IoT. Today, we’ll […]

Last week, I mentioned a comment from Javvad Malik, security advocate at AlienVault, who said he expects to see an uptick in ransomware in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. He told me that with ransomware being one of the most rapidly growing areas of cybercrime, the logical next step is for it to infect the […]

The 2016 presidential election ushered in new era. As Grant Shirk, senior director of Product Marketing at Vera, pointed out, it was our first true cyber election. Not only did much of it play out in social media, particularly on Twitter and Facebook, but the election brought attention to how stolen data can be used […]

Why do phishing attacks work so well? I don’t think cybercriminals are smarter than the average end user, but they are awfully good at staying one step ahead of us. Just when we think we are on to all of their tricks, they come up with a new one, even more sneaky and devious and […]

8 Tips for Ensuring Employee Security Compliance Digital transformation is a hot business and technology buzz word right now, according to InfoWorld, which also stated: If your company has not been applying digital technologies over the last 40 years, you don’t exist. The time-share, mainframe, departmental computing, client-server, PC, ERP, Internet, cloud, and mobile eras […]

5 Ways Health Care Can Achieve Stronger Data Security Internet of Things (IoT) security – or lack thereof – is going to be front and center in 2017. One of the first reported IoT security concerns comes from the medical industry. The Food and Drug Administration announced that St. Jude Medical cardiac devices are at […]

8 Tips for Ensuring Employee Security Compliance End users do not like using two-factor authentication (2FA) options, and that feeling is getting worse as the need for multi-factor authentication increases. IT decision makers told SecureAuth that three-quarters of their end users complain about having to use 2FA, with 10 percent saying they “hate” it. I […]

5 Steps to Protect Executives from a Whale-Phishing Attack While wading through the hundreds of security predictions I received last month, most of what I saw was expected – thoughts about the future of ransomware, DDoS attacks, the Internet of Things security, and even artificial intelligence and machine learning. What did surprise me was the […]

5 Steps for Proactive Cyber Risk Management The holidays are often prime time for cyberattacks. Both companies and consumers have their guard down – businesses are closed or fewer employees are on call or monitoring the networks and more people are accessing the internet away from their secure connections. However, this holiday season was surprisingly […]

Regular readers of my blog know that I’m a proponent of security education and awareness training. I’m especially so after conversing with friends about the recent Russian hacks on our elections and other security incidents. It concerns me how little the average person knows about cybersecurity in general – what it can do and how […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017 Ransomware increased by 10 percent from October to November, according to a report from Check Point. Nathan Shuchami, head of threat prevention at Check Point, told Beta News: Ransomware attacks are still growing in volume for a simple reason — they work, and generate significant revenues for the […]

When I asked security experts for their 2017 predictions, ransomware was mentioned more often than anything else. But close on ransomware’s heels were the security concerns surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT). This isn’t surprising, considering the rising popularity of the IoT in both enterprise and consumer settings and with the recent attack caused by […]