Report: Average Organizational, Per Capita Data Breach Costs Reach New Highs
Data breaches remain a constant concern among boards and executives. Part of the reasoning behind this anxiety is the cost of responding to a data breach. Most years, not only does the per capita cost of a record compromised in a breach go up – so, too, does the total organizational cost. For 12 years, […]
The Cloud Isn’t Magic – What You Need to Know About the Latest US Citizen Data Leak
News travels fast in the information security community, and the combination of politics, cloud and cybersecurity make for a rapidly moving headline. You’ve no doubt read about the disclosure of 198 million records by a political data analytics firm by now. This isn’t a case of malicious hacking, but of misconfiguration. These records were simply […]
Know Your Enemy: From Adware to Worms, the Whats and Hows of Common Cyber Attacks
Cyber crime is no longer the province of the computer super-geek. In fact, it can almost be said to have gone mainstream with exploit lists, downloadable network tools and scripts – even hacking IT support – all available online at bargain prices.