Congressional Votes on Controversial Surveillance Law Close Door on Privacy Debate—Or Do They?

Everywhere Americans look today, threats to their privacy are prevalent. Whether hackers are gaining access to our financial data or social media accounts, our location is being compromised by the GPS technology in our phones, or Internet of Things devices such as digital assistants and connected Barbie dolls passively listening to conversations in our homes, privacy is proving to be increasingly elusive. With that backdrop, the recent congressional votes to continue a warrantless surveillance practice used by the National Security Agency provides the latest evidence that privacy continues to…

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From the IoT to Insider Threats, 2018 Figures to Keep Security Leaders on Their Toes

As the world looks forward to saying goodbye to the crazy year that was 2017, security experts are chiming in about what to expect in 2018, and the news is not good: insider attacks, tax scams, election hacks, and holes created by the Internet of Things lead the list of threats that cyber security teams can expect to be most prominent in the coming year. Probably not the Christmas gift list they had in mind. Given what we saw in 2017, there's no reason not to believe the experts. With organizations as varied as Equifax, Uber and the Securities Exchange Commission having revealed significant…

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Cyber Criminals Are Turning to a New Source of Valuable, Loosely Protected Data, and You Won’t Believe What Industry It’s In

It's time for today's cybersecurity awareness test: What industry has accounted for 2 percent of all data breaches during 2017, more than healthcare, social media or retail? Finance would be a good guess, but it would be skewed by the scale of the Equifax breach. Government would make sense, too, given that the IRS was breached earlier this year and the SEC in September revealed a substantial breach that occurred last year. But as surprising as it is, the answer is education. Ryan Cloutier, an edtech security specialist, offered this surprising reality check about education breaches during an…

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Ditching Textbooks and Teaching Cybersecurity Via News Headlines: Modern Times Call for Modern Measures

In a constantly changing field like cybersecurity, nothing stays the same for long. And as Jim Lewis, a senior VP at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has learned first hand, this makes teaching about cybersecurity a challenge. Lewis this spring started teaching a section of a social engineering course to cybersecurity majors at the U.S. Naval Academy. Once it became apparent that the textbooks available to support the course were all several years old, Lewis opted to ditch the traditional approach and adopt a different source of reading materials: daily newspapers. And why…

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Financial Services Organizations Are in Need of a Cyber Security Wake-Up Call

There's little to suggest that the money you've entrusted to the financial institutions you do business with is in jeopardy. But the data surrounding that money? That's another story. Financial services companies are braced for a period of continued and expanded cyber threats, and the really bad news is that many of them aren't prepared to withstand the onslaught. Recent surveys paint a picture of an industry that sees the writing on the wall but often finds itself working with the technological equivalent of whiteout. At the NACHA Payments 2017 conference in Austin in April, TD Bank polled…

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Having a CISO In Place Is No Longer An Option—It’s a Business Reality

Talk about your double-edged swords. The fact that American companies continue to bring CISOs on board is evidence that IT security is rapidly evolving into an ever-more-important component of business success in the 21st century. But it also serves as the latest reminder of how far Corporate America has to go in fully grasping just how important protecting customer data and safeguarding consumer privacy is. That it's taking some companies this long to bring a CISO on board is somewhat astounding. The fact that some of the biggest breaches in recent years hit consumer brands such as Yahoo, …

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RSAC 2017: Securing An Increasingly Insecure World

Ah, another year, another endless series of security incidents and growing threats to keep the IT security world on edge. (And gainfully employed—let's not forget that part.) As the InfoSec world converges on San Francisco for next week's RSA Conference, there are plenty of topical themes attendees can expect will be filtered through the gauntlet of keynotes, sessions and workshops. And as in past years, those themes run the gamut, from large-scale data breaches and fast-growing threat categories to political hacking and the risks posed by new technologies. Of the major security stories from…

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