data protection - News, Features, and Slideshows

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  Ransomware, the reoccurring revenue model for cybercriminals

  Ransomware will make even the most experienced IT professional shiver..

  Craig Ford | 11 Mar | Read more

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  Curtin University collaboration helps Cisco explore new analytics-based security models

  Real-world usage data to refine scanning of encrypted traffic without decrypting it

  David Braue | 08 Mar | Read more

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  What do ASD Essential Eight changes mean for your organisation’s security?

  The recent and unexpected update to the Australian Signals Directorate’s Essential Eight Maturity Model serves to keep the ASD’s guidelines relevant going forward and address the latest weak points in IT security. What stays the same though is the ASD’s guidance on practical updates on how to stay ahead.

  Alex Duffy, emt Distribution | 06 Mar | Read more

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  Business executives can’t spell cybersecurity without r-i-s-k

  Well-entrenched reporting structures and stilted conversations about risk are still preventing many CISOs from effectively communicating with their direct reports and company executives, a security analyst has warned as Melbourne prepares to welcome thousands of networking and security specialists for the annual ​Cisco Live! conference.​

  David Braue | 28 Feb | Read more

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  The week in security: Cybercriminals celebrate NDB’s first anniversary with... more breaches

  The week in security: Cybercriminals celebrate NDB’s first anniversary with... more breaches

  David Braue | 25 Feb | Read more

• How to achieve better third-party security: Let us count the ways

  No enterprise is an island. In a connected world, a business cannot function without multiple relationships with third parties -- outside vendors, contractors, affiliates, partners and others.

  Taylor Armerding | 30 Jun | Read more

• How to defend against the OpenSSL Heartbleed flaw

  CSOs need to take a number of steps as soon as possible to protect their organizations against the OpenSSL vulnerability that has shaken the tech industry, experts say.

  Antone Gonsalves | 10 Apr | Read more

• How to Test the Security Savvy of Your Staff

  How do you know your employees retain what you teach them in company-required security awareness training? You don't -- unless you regularly test their security savvy and effectively address their mistakes during post-test follow-up sessions.

  Kim Lindros and Ed Tittel | 24 Feb | Read more

• Your Twitter account has been hacked! Here's what to do about it.

  Kirsty woke up to find that someone else had taken control of her Twitter account. I tell her how to get it back.

  Lincoln Spector | 09 Sep | Read more

• Send attackers on a wild goose chase with deception technologies

  Midsized companies with revenues from $100 million to $1 billion spent an average of $3 million on information security as of 2014 per "The Global State of Information Security Survey 2015" from PwC.

  David Geer | 18 Aug | Read more

• The 4 most insecure areas of online behavior

  Security experts and users follow a drastically different set of best practices to protect their security online, according to a new report from Google.

  Kristin Burnham | 12 Aug | Read more

• CRM backups or audit trails? Yes, please

  Like nearly any transactional system, usable CRM data backups are tricky because the data is always changing and dependent on coherency across several tables. Ideally, you'd fully quiesce the system and do a full backup every day, or enable the online backup. But with modern cloud systems and 7x24 customer access (via portals or mobile apps), you can't take the system down, and cloud vendors like SFDC don't provide a full backup more often than once a week. The situation with audit trails is different: they may reliably capture all the changes, but you may only be allowed to track a limited number of fields (the default in SFDC is 20 per object).

  David Taber | 30 Jul | Read more

• Data explosion offers challenges, opportunities to security pros

  230 million patients. 3,300 hospitals. 900,000 healthcare professionals. 98 percent of U.S. pharmacies. More than 700 different electronic health record platforms. 764 million medication histories. 6.5 billion transactions processed last year alone.

  Maria Korolov | 17 Jul | Read more

• Cyber insurance: Buy, but be aware

  "Caveat emptor" - buyer beware - is the most common warning to those shopping for big-ticket items. That, apparently, applies in spades to buying cyber insurance.

  Taylor Armerding | 10 Jul | Read more

Whitepapers about data protection

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  Key Considerations when adopting an SSL/TLS Strategy

  According to research by F5 Labs, more than 81% of all web page loads are now encrypted with SSL/TLS, which means that we are moving very quickly toward an Internet where nearly every piece of data in transit will be encrypted. However, the rise of SSL/TLS isn’t all good news. Attackers are increasingly hiding insidious attacks within encrypted traffic—which means that the security protocol itself has become a threat vector. Regaining visibility into that encrypted traffic is one of the most important steps you can take to protect your apps, your data, and your business Find out how today.

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  2018 Global Threat Intelligence Report

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  Your Email is your weakness: Australian Orgs know they should be more cyber resilient

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  Deep Dive: Cyber Resilience for Email