Category: Data Security

Published on December 6, 2022

via CSO Online With budgets tightening and security talent difficult to find, a growing number of organizations are taking a close look at Cybersecurity as a Service (CSaaS) – an outsourced model of managing risk on a pay-as-you-go basis. Managed security services are not new,…

Published on November 18, 2022

via ZD Net We're heading into the busiest period for online shopping of the year, as people look for gifts and bargains ahead of the festive season.  And now what was already a busy time for shopping is super-charged by Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the…

Published on October 27, 2022

via Forbes October might make you think of Halloween and pumpkin spice lattes, but it has also been known as Cybersecurity Awareness Month since the occasion’s founding in 2004. It’s the official yearly reminder to take a moment and give your data privacy practices a check-up. Although…

Published on October 7, 2022

via Security Intelligence The 2022 Cost of a Data Breach report was eagerly anticipated by cybersecurity professionals and the technology industry as a whole. Following two years of increased remote work and other changes due to the pandemic, the report was an important benchmark on the lasting…

Published on August 10, 2022

Via Security Intelligence The average cost of a data breach reached an all-time high of $4.35 million this year, according to newly published 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report, an increase of 2.6% from a year ago and 12.7% since 2020. New research in this…

Published on July 21, 2022

via Security Intelligence The beauty of having different climates around the world is that there is always somewhere we can travel for leisure all year round. These are times when we tend to relax and let our guard down. The reality, though, is that cyber…

Published on June 16, 2022

via Bleeping Computer Ever since 2004, the payment card industry has required merchants who accept credit card payments to adhere to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS, often shortened to PCI). This requirement doesn’t just apply to merchants, but is applicable to…

Published on May 13, 2022

via UK National Cyber Security Centre Balancing cyber risk and defence The threat an organization faces may vary over time. At any point, there is a need to strike a balance between the current threat, the measures needed to defend against it, the implications and…

Published on May 9, 2022

via Forbes A lot has happened in response to the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack a year ago today that created a crisis for the company and the country. President Joe Biden took steps to improve the country’s defenses against future cyberattacks and signed a bill into law that is designed to improve…

Published on April 11, 2022

via CSO Online Take care of security basics first When reviewing your network for potential cyber threats, don’t make things worse by making misconfigurations that will create more problems. Spend time on the basics and on other projects that you probably should have worked on…