The vision is chilling. It’s another busy day. An employee arrives and logs on to the network only to be confronted by a locked screen displaying a simple message: “Your files have been captured and encrypted. To release them, you must pay...”
2017 Global Vulnerability Management Market Leadership Award REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, announced today that it has received Frost & Sullivan’s 2017 Global…
WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 If you haven’t heard of the Vault 7 WikiLeaks data dump, you’ve probably been living under a rock. The leak unveiled new, yet unsurprising, classified material from the CIA; allegedly sharing information on the U.S. agency’s hacking…
Mitigating Cyberattacks New tools and technologies help companies in their drive to improve performance, cut costs and grow their businesses but as companies adopt cloud services in greater numbers and refine internal processes for development and operations, security considerations must…
Financial Services Most Targeted More than 200 million financial services records breached in 2016, Over 900 percent increase from previous year CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) Security today announced research from its IBM X-Force Research team…
General Electric Co said on Wednesday it is fixing a bug in equipment used in electric power systems after three New York University researchers said they identified a vulnerability that could be exploited to shut down parts of the electric…
Malware in the Cloud It’s no secret that cloud adoption has exploded in the enterprise over last few years. However, this aggressive cloud adoption trend has also opened the floodgates for a host of new threats and elevated the risk…
Selfie Drone Privacy Issues The growing concept of privacy is one that I find very interesting and this is where the selfie drone come into play. Recently a new product has been advertised on TV. It is a personal drone,…
5 Top Paying IT Certifications Security-related certifications pay on average over $17,000 per year more than the median IT certification salary. Citrix certifications have annual salaries that range from $99,411 to $105,086 with a median salary of $102,365. AWS Certified…
BakerHostetler’s 2017 Data Security Incident Response Report NEW YORK, April 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The BakerHostetler 2017 Data Security Incident Response Report highlights the critical need for senior executives in all industries to understand and be ready to tackle the…
Effective Cybersecurity Strategy A number of trends contribute to today’s reality in which businesses can no longer treat cybersecurity as an afterthought. These include a rapid increase in the number of internet connected devices, an increased dependency on third party…
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