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Expectations vs. Reality: Five Ways to Improve Cybersecurity Awareness Nine out of 10 health care organizations have been breached since 2013. That is a mind-boggling statistic. And it gets worse. According to Trustwave’s 2015 Security Health Check Report, hackers are causing some costly damage: [T]he number of individuals who have had their medical records compromised […]

5 Ways to Keep Mission-Critical Data Safe in the Cloud Criminals go where they can do the most damage with minimal effort. It’s why, for years, hackers targeted Windows rather than Macs – it was where the users, and in turn the data, were. And now we’re seeing a steady migration from one platform to […]

How to Prepare for the Ever-Changing Evolution of Malware Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post that stated that SMBs tend to have their head in the sand when it comes to BYOD security concerns. I referenced a study by Kaspersky Lab when I wrote: Nearly a third of SMBs don’t see BYOD as […]

Expectations vs. Reality: Five Ways to Improve Cybersecurity Awareness The other day I made a passing reference to the financial consequence of the Experian breach, which was its tumble in value on the stock market. Most SMBs don’t have to worry about their businesses crashing on Wall Street, but the costs involved in a breach […]

A New Security Approach to Combat Today’s Threats National Cybersecurity Awareness Month certainly started with a bang, and not in a good way. My inbox was blowing up on Friday afternoon with alerts about the Experian breach involving T-Mobile wireless customers, and before I could catch up on that news, the emails shifted direction to […]

7 Security Mindsets to Protect Your Vital Business Assets Usually, turning the calendar from one month to the next is no big deal. However, in the security world, October 1, 2015, is a pretty big deal. First, October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. Second, today is the day […]

7 Security Mindsets to Protect Your Vital Business Assets If you’ve ever wondered just how much damage someone with approved access to your network can do, I’d like to direct your attention to a couple of studies that have recently been released. An Intel Security study on data exfiltration found that insiders are responsible for […]

Redefining Enterprise BYOD: Meeting Tomorrow’s Demands You’d think by now that we’d all have a better handle on BYOD and its security needs. According to a new BYOD security survey by Bitglass, we aren’t even close. The survey was actually two studies. In one survey, the researchers turned to those using their own smartphones in […]

A New Security Approach to Combat Today’s Threats The other day, I talked about the growing dangers of malicious apps hidden in the operating system’s official app marketplace. And we’ve long known about the risks of downloading apps from third parties. However, a new report from Alcatel-Lucent revealed a new threat to mobile networks: our […]

7 Security Mindsets to Protect Your Vital Business Assets New research from two security companies shows that DDoS attacks are a lot more serious than previously thought. The nuisance attacks are doing more than shutting down websites, shutting out customers, and giving IT staff the unwanted task of fixing the problems. They are now being […]

Why C-Level Execs Should Care More About IT Security Security protocols are put in place to protect business interests. But are these security protocols also hurting your business? Having a good security infrastructure in place is absolutely necessary in today’s work environment, but a new Dell study shows that good security has a negative impact […]

A New Security Approach to Combat Today’s Threats The number-one rule of safely downloading apps is to use the official app marketplace, whether it is the App Store or Google Play, or a vendor’s store. That’s why the news from Bitdefender researchers is so alarming. They discovered sophisticated CAPTCHA-bypassing Android malware in Google Play apps. […]