Deception technology seems to be oriented towards high-maturity organizations, but the truth is it can offer security benefits to almost any size of company. Nowadays, even small or local businesses are targeted by threat actors. Even worse, these businesses are often less prepared and have fewer recourses when it...
From 2018 to 2020, the number of insider threat incidents increased by a staggering 47%. Security and risk management leaders must evaluate and strengthen their insider risk program, including surveillance of high-risk workers and anomaly monitoring of critical applications and data.
This report provides a deeper...
Synthetic identity fraud is the fastest-growing financial crime in the country. By combining real and fabricated personal information, a synthetic identity is specifically designed to look and act like a valid identity - until it doesn’t, leaving financial losses and criminal activity in its wake.
It’s no secret—hackers are after your passwords. Year after year, credential theft continues to be a top attack vector, yet organizations struggle to secure their credentials. Internal and external users risk being compromised when their passwords are shared, improperly stored, or used across multiple accounts and...
An entire industry has sprung up around running bots and proxies to purchase all of the items made available during a limited release in order to resell them at a profit, depriving fans from direct participation in the sale.
Shopify decided to offer merchants a customizable skill testing challenge question feature,...
As the economy places a greater emphasis on operational continuity, speed, and agility, API security is crucial for digital firms. In 2022, API security violations will be the most common attack method for data breaches in enterprise web apps, predicts Gartner.
The concern of unjustified exposure of the valuable...
Digital identities a – particularly the TLS certificates throughout your organization – are used by
machines to authenticate machine-to-machine communications. But they also protect machines
through consistent, trusted encryption.
When these machine identities fail, organizations experience outages. Even...
Fastmail's customers utilize its platform specifically to get away from Google's user tracking and privacy invasion practices.
To meet the needs and expectations of its customers, Fastmail wanted to implement a privacy-centric bot management solution to effectively safeguard new account creations, recoveries, and...
One popular bad actor tactic is to generate "low and slow" fake diurnal traffic. Using this tactic, bad actors attempt to evade detection by hiding within legitimate user traffic patterns.
Because today’s fake diurnals blend in with authentic human traffic more
effectively than in the past, solutions must be...
Cybersecurity doesn’t have competitors, it has adversaries. They react to every defense we put in place and seek new ways to achieve their aims - whether they be cybercrime, espionage, or hacktivism. The attackers are innovative, and they share new ways to exploit any vulnerability, so defenders need to share...
Exploring new ways to offer security as a service from his organization to external customers is an exciting challenge and opportunity, says Sean Mack, CIO and CISO of publishing company Wiley. He also discusses aligning security investments with the company's biggest business risks and goals.
Ransomware is everywhere. It’s a topic consistently making headlines with new breaches reported weekly, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. There were 700 million attempted ransomware attacks in 2021 (up 134% from 2020). It’s truly not a matter of “if” but “when” you will experience a breach....
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