U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a long-expected executive order that bans the purchase of telecommunication equipment from nations deemed to pose a spying risk. Also, Huawei was banned by the Commerce Department from buying U.S. components without obtaining a license first.
As governments around the world continue plans to build out their nations' 5G networks, worries persist about whether Chinese manufacturers can be trusted. But the British government apparently is ready to allow Huawei to supply "noncore" parts of its network, and the Netherlands may be ready to follow suit.
The world of work is mobile and distributed, particularly for large organizations and global brands. These organizations in finance, consulting, technology, government, and more tend to have many branch offices and traveling workers handling their clients' sensitive information. It's challenging to scale secure...
The skyrocketing adoption of Microsoft Office 365 has made it a valuable target for cybercriminals. While Microsoft's security tools and capabilities are a great start, many enterprises moving to Office 365 are finding that they need greater protection across all their cloud applications. The Palo Alto Networks...
Blocking DNS-based threats is a major challenge. DNS is everywhere and critical to running your business. It also represents a pervasive but easily overlooked attack surface, and bad actors are using this to their advantage.
Our Unit 42 threat research team reports that more than 80 percent of malware uses DNS to...
Changes in development models, architecture designs, and the infrastructure where we run applications over the past 5-10 years have made modern applications look nothing like they did a decade ago. So why are most companies still using legacy web application firewall (WAF) defenses that were not built for modern web...
SOC processes are broken, analysts are feeling the cybersecurity job fatigue, and enterprises are still at risk. SOC leaders often struggle to understand how to make their teams more effective and end up spending their budget on point solutions that add to the problem of data overload. How do you improve security...
Watch this brief video interview to learn more about how the city of Westland achieved their security goals by harnessing AI to gain the most real-time visibility into their environment.
Cyber criminals are taking relentless aim at financial institutions. Cargills Bank is taking a proactive approach to better safeguarding customers with a cognitive security solution, IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson. Analysts can readily examine a broad range of threat data and gain actionable insights to make decisions...
Security automation plays a significant role when maintaining an organization's Cyber Resilience, according to The Ponemon Institute's fourth annual study on the Cyber Resilient Organization.
This new study, sponsored by IBM Security, will show security leaders:
The key factors that hinder the ability for...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) bridges this gap and unlocks a new partnership between security analysts and their technology. But it's not humanly possible for your SOC team to keep up with the growing threat landscape while dealing with routine security operations tasks.
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In recent years, Las Vegas has become a prototypical smart city. Between its fully autonomous vehicles and its array of IoT sensors, the city aims to embrace innovation without compromising the security of its 650,000 residents and 42 million annual tourists.
Yet local governments know that internet-connected...
Much like private companies, state and local governments of all kinds are going through a digital transformation at an unprecedented pace: migrating sensitive data to the cloud, installing internet-connected infrastructure, and offering services powered by smart devices.
At the same time, cyber-criminals are also...
The exits of the Department of Homeland Security secretary and Secret Service director are prompting discussion about the continuity of U.S. cybersecurity policy because the agencies play a key role in securing infrastructure and investigating financial cybercrime.
Protecting your digital resources and services with username and static password as the only authentication method is not secure enough. Passwords can be easily stolen through social engineering, phishing emails or spoofed websites where people are asked to share their login credentials.
Using multi-factor...
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