Assessing Content Management System Security
As more businesses turn paperless and strive for more efficiency, content management systems become more and more popular. But having all your sensitive information in one place can be a risk. The companies that make these systems understand the need for extra security, as they recognize the importance of the ... Read More
Who’s Financially Responsible for Cybersecurity Breaches?
As networks become less secure and the data stored on the cloud becomes more valuable, cybersecurity breaches are becoming both more expensive and more frequent. In the first six months of 2019 alone, data breaches compromised more than 4.1 billion records. Cybersecurity experts and IT workers can’t prevent every breach, ... Read More
How AI Is Improving Threat Protection
Successful cybersecurity attacks can be so severe that they shut down business operations, erode the public’s trust in an organization and require substantial financial resources to go toward recovering. So, it’s crucial for the security professionals who work for those companies to continually invest in updated threat protection technologies. Artificial ... Read More
What Does Fake News Have to Do With Cybersecurity? A Lot
We’ve all heard of the fake news phenomena, especially over the last few years. As understood by the general public, fake news spreads false stories shared on social media that intend to sway someone’s opinion about something, usually within the political sphere. However, fake news isn’t a new concept; rather, ... Read More
6 Ways Poor Cybersecurity Hurts Businesses
Cybersecurity is more than a buzzword today, and that’s for a good reason. Failing to have adequate cybersecurity measures could harm your business in ways you don’t expect. Here are six examples: Poor Security Has a Broad and Adverse Effect on Clients and Markets Your initial impression may be that ... Read More
Blockchain Reality Check: Which Promises Can It Keep?
A quick look at some of the news coverage about blockchain would likely give someone the impression that it’s a miraculous technology capable of solving myriad problems faced by various industries. But, which of the claims seem likely to hold? Blockchains are Unhackable One of the things about the blockchain ... Read More
Can Victims of Phishing Scams Be Fired for Falling Prey?
Phishing has come a long way from the days when it most often involved cybercriminals urging people to provide personal details in exchange for lottery winnings or other incentives. Those attacks still occur, but they’ve gotten more advanced. It’s now common for phishing attacks to include company logos, fonts or ... Read More
The Role of Hackathons in Driving Cybersecurity Forward
Hackathons bring tech-savvy people together in a collaborative setting to solve problems, advance a technology or produce another type of positive outcome. One of the issues hackathons can address is cybersecurity. Here’s how they can aid the whole cybersecurity sector. Equipping Future Cybersecurity Specialists According to a 2018 study, the ... Read More
How the FFE’s Expansion to the U.S. Will Help Combat Financial Cyberattacks
At the end of 2018, FINTRAIL Solutions and dozens of other security and technology firms made news by holding the first meeting of the U.S. chapter of the FinTech FinCrime Exchange, or FFE. A European chapter already exists, which makes the FFE’s Atlantic crossing something of a milestone in the ... Read More
2 Cybersecurity Challenges We Can Stop Talking About, and 2 We Can’t
Cybersecurity is a perpetually hot topic. At certain points, however, it becomes evident it’s time to stimulate new conversations about subjects that require more focus and cease discussing others. Here are two examples of issues people can stop talking about, and two that need more discussion. Time to Stop Talking ... Read More
