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Insights and opinions on data protection, privacy and cybersecurity contributed by thought leaders from around the world.

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Cyber Security Insights

BadUSB: A Growing Cybersecurity Threat

December 19, 2022

BadUSB attacks have proliferated in the last year for a simple reason — they work as long as curiosity is part of human nature. The impact of BadUSB is tantamount to allowing an unknown hacker to sit at an employee’s unlocked computer and directly attack the network from the inside.

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Cyber Security Insights

Running in Place: Staying Afloat With Language-Level Vulnerability Management

December 16, 2022

Security vulnerabilities in languages like PHP, Python, and Java may involve updating the language. The problem is that when a language level update is released, it traditionally does not simply address security issues – it introduces other, unrelated, language changes which may break existing code.

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Cyber Security Insights

Five Best Practices for Consumers to Beat Phishing Campaigns This Holiday Season

December 15, 2022

The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and with it, a surge in hacker activity. The massive increase in online shopping around the holidays offers hackers ample opportunity to deceive shoppers with social engineering attacks like phishing campaigns.

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Cyber Security Insights

Leveraging the Attack Surface – A Novel Approach in Navigating the Threat Landscape

December 15, 2022

A combination of EASM with CMDB delivers real-time visibility of the entire stack. Previously unknown or unmanaged assets come into focus and automated workflows weed out vulnerabilities at scale, which simplifies the previously overwhelming proposition of exhaustive investigation and patching, asset by asset.

Cyber Security Insights

Lessons Brands Can Learn From Midterm Election Disinformation

December 14, 2022

You can’t control bad actors targeting your brand and customers. What’s most important is to ensure that you’re monitoring for the abuse of your brand online so that you can take action as quickly as possible to disrupt impersonation attacks before your brand falls victim.

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Cyber Security Insights

Expert Cybersecurity Predictions for the Next 5 Years

December 14, 2022

Cyberattack methods are constantly changing as criminals find new ways to automate breaches, crack strong networks, and target vulnerable systems. From a growing need for intelligence-led security to increased infrastructure protections, organizations must look years into the future to stay ahead of the attacks of tomorrow.

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Cyber Security Insights

5 Information Security Quick Wins for SMBs

December 13, 2022

As an SMB, what can you do to prevent cybersecurity attacks and safeguard your data and critical assets? Hint: Give your data privacy and information security practices a check-up. Get your ISO 27001 certification.

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Cyber Security Insights

Software May Be Eating the World and Your IT Budget

December 13, 2022

The economic landscape requires due diligence when it comes to enterprise level SaaS spending. Shadow IT hides wasteful spending, and organizations must manage costs associated with bulky and hidden SaaS platforms.

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Cyber Security Insights

As Apple Drives Consumers Towards a Passwordless Future, Are Enterprises Ready for the Next Generation of Authentication?

December 12, 2022

Apple, Google and Microsoft have been working closely with the FIDO Alliance to introduce passkeys, which are a much more secure and effective successor to password-based security. This commitment is likely to drive a rapid change in consumer behavior and expectations. But will other enterprises be ready to respond?

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Data Protection Insights

Respect for Consumers Is the Answer To Varying Data Privacy Laws

December 9, 2022

The combination of brands being held accountable for violating consumer privacy laws, the roster of new – and varying – US privacy laws set to take place in 2023, and consumers themselves increasingly opting out of sharing their personal data is amounting to something of a rising tide in terms of consumer privacy.

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Running in Place: Staying Afloat With Language-Level Vulnerability Management

Five Best Practices for Consumers to Beat Phishing Campaigns This Holiday Season

Leveraging the Attack Surface – A Novel Approach in Navigating the Threat Landscape

Lessons Brands Can Learn From Midterm Election Disinformation

Expert Cybersecurity Predictions for the Next 5 Years

5 Information Security Quick Wins for SMBs

Software May Be Eating the World and Your IT Budget

As Apple Drives Consumers Towards a Passwordless Future, Are Enterprises Ready for the Next Generation of Authentication?

Respect for Consumers Is the Answer To Varying Data Privacy Laws

Lead EU Cybersecurity Agency to Receive Early Access to Mythos AI

Who Will Break Who: Microsoft or Mythos?

Commercial Location Data Used to Track Deployed U.S. Military Across Theaters of Operation

Carnival Cruise Data Breach Exposes Nearly 6 Million People in Cyber Attack Linked to ShinyHunters