My family and I traveled for the Thanksgiving holiday; we visited some of my wife’s family in Charlotte, North Carolina. Charlotte is a great city with much to do, including beautiful outdoor spaces and great restaurants. We even got to see our beloved Providence Bruins play the local Charlotte Checkers hockey team. I’ve also never […]
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The keys to a successful second line of defence There are many risk management methodologies in existence but it is not uncommon to come across large firms still following today simplistic, dysfunctional or flawed practices, in particular around operational risk management. The main issue with many of those approaches is that they are plagued by
Keep appointing pure technologists in CISO roles and you’ll never win The Wannacry ransomware attack that affected so many large firms in May 2017 led to a number of animated discussions amongst InfoSec communities. The corrective patch (fixing the vulnerability targeted by the malware) was out since March for supported systems and many firms were
In 2015, The ISACA’s Global Cybersecurity Status Report conducted an online polling of 3,439 ISACA members in 129 countries, including 1,211 members in the United States. The survey revealed that out of the more than 3,400 members of the IT association, a whopping 83 percent volunteered that cyber attacks were among the top three threats
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typographyimages / Pixabay Amid threats of hacking and password theft, Google has introduced a free security app to protect your email account. Google Authenticator generates 2-Step Verification Codes on your phone. You can learn more about the 2-Step Verification here. The 2-Step Verification is offered on Gmail and social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and
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Halloween is right around the corner. Costumes, candy, trick or treat — every shadow is a potential fright, every bump a ghost! Halloween comes once a year, but for your organization, invisible threats to your data and productivity happen daily. While the news is filled with stories of external cyber attacks, it’s still important to
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The idea of cyber threats to a business is a relatively new phenomenon. Many established businesses and startup businesses are not ready to deal with the threats that they face. They do not have the technology or the people to manage the threats and to protect the business. The result if they do not protect
Google has fittingly chosen October to make several security-related announcements. Dubbed as the Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the search giant announced that it will introduce a host of security enhancements to Chrome and Gmail for a more secure online browsing. For instance, Google has improved Chrome’s Safe Browsing Technology to prevent unsuspecting users from unwittingly giving
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Security Negligence: Failure to Patch By now, most of the world has heard of the monstrous security breach that occurred at Equifax. Its CEO recently took ‘early retirement’ which is no surprise since the debacle exposed millions of consumer’s personal data. If the incident never happened, he would probably still have his corner office. In
Cybersecurity expert Symantec is looking to cut down on its data center costs by moving some of its workload to Microsoft Azure. The deal between the two companies, which was revealed on Monday, would see Symantec delivering its Norton product line to its customers from Azure. Microsoft announced that Symantec has already moved “105 critical
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