The appropriate use of predictive analytics, going beyond a "set it and forget it" approach, could dramatically improve breach detection, says Teresa Grogan, CIO of the consultancy VertitechIT .
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report offers an update on how Russian bots and trolls are spreading misinformation on vaccines via social media - and the public health impact of the campaign. Plus: Tips on disaster recovery, internet of things security.
It's less than 10 weeks until your country's elections; do you know where your government's information warfare defenses and election security strategy are? The FBI says it's moving to counter information operations, while DHS is bolstering election security. But will it be enough?
Police in Shanghai are investigating the apparent loss of 130 million customers' personal details from Huazhu Hotels Group. The data exposure may trace to the Chinese hotel group's developers accidentally uploading to GitHub access credentials for a production database.
Air Canada is forcing 1.7 million mobile app account users to reset their passwords after it detected unusual login behavior that it says may have exposed 20,000 accounts, including passport information. But the company is enforcing password complexity rules that experts advise against.
Microsoft appears set to patch a zero-day local privilege escalation vulnerability after a researcher published proof-of-concept exploit code for the flaw. That's a relatively rare turn of events these days, owing to Microsoft's bug bounty program rules.
Three months after the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect, the U.K.'s data privacy watchdog says that the number of data protection complaints it has received from individuals has nearly doubled.
Industry analysts first coined the term Identity-as-a-Service, IDaaS in 2006. But today, the vast majority of IDaaS implementations still focus on the "A" - access management - leaving organizations to piece together the rest. IBM's Michael Bunyard discusses how to put "Identity" back in IDaaS.
U.S. consumers now own about 870 million IoT devices. In an interview, Al Pascual of Javelin Strategy & Research, discusses the challenges involved in securing the exploding IoT landscape.
A previously unnamed U.S. energy company that agreed to a record $2.7 million settlement after it left 30,000 records about its information security assets exposed online for 70 days in violation of energy sector cybersecurity regulations has been named as California utility PG&E.
Philips and Becton Dickinson have each issued multiple alerts this year regarding cybersecurity flaws in some of their medical devices. Some security experts say the two companies' transparency about cybersecurity issues - including new alerts issued last week - should be emulated by other manufacturers.
T-Mobile has suffered a breach that may have exposed personal data for 2.3 million of its 77 million customers, and one security researcher says the hacker appears to be keen to sell the stolen data.
How is risk management evolving as a result of ubiquitous cybersecurity risks? Jennifer Bayuk, CEO of Decision Framework Systems, provides an overview.
In many organizations, overworked security analysts are trailing the bad guys in technology and knowledge, and this gap leads to increased risk, says Jeff Michael of Lastline.
A tragic accident involving the drowning of a young boy also turned into a privacy breach nightmare for the toddler's adoptive parents, a lawsuit filed against an Oklahoma county hospital alleges.
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