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Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development

Inside Netscout's Threat Report

Tom Field  •  March 25, 2019

Netscout is out with its latest threat report, and the research offers some startling new insights into DDoS, advanced threats and the commercialization of cybercrime. Hardik Modi offers analysis.

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Application Security

API-Centric Automated Attacks on the Rise

Varun Haran  •  March 25, 2019

CloudEntity CEO Nathaniel Coffing shares insight on building foundational API security in a zero-trust world.

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Fraud Management & Cybercrime

CrowdStrike's 2019 Global Threat Report

Tom Field  •  March 25, 2019

CrowdStrike is out with its 2019 Global Threat Report, which includes a ranking of the most dangerous nation-state adversaries. The company's CTO, Dmitri Alperovitch, discusses the report's key findings about threats and threat actors.

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Fraud Management & Cybercrime

Threat Watch: Phishing, Social Engineering Continue

Mathew J. Schwartz  •  March 25, 2019

Reviewing 2018 attacks, Jon Clay of Trend Micro, says social engineering persists, including phishing attacks, while criminals also continue to steal credentials, lob ransomware at targets and push cryptomining malware.

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Governance

3 Hot Legal Topics at RSA Conference 2019

Mathew J. Schwartz  •  March 25, 2019

What's hot on the cybersecurity legal front? For starters, in 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted twice as many alleged state-sponsored attackers than it had ever indicted, says Kimberly Peretti of Alston & Bird.

Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery

Baltimore Recovering From Second Ransomware Attack

Scott Ferguson  •  May 8, 2019

Baltimore is recovering from another ransomware attack - the second in a little over a year. This time, officials say, the city was attacked by RobbinHood malware.

Governance

Executive Roundtable Recap: "Confessions of a Healthcare CISO"

Nick Holland  •  May 8, 2019

ISMG and NTT hosted a roundtable dinner in Chicago on May 8 focused on "Confessions of a Healthcare CISO".

Governance

Cultural Challenges and Digital Transformation

Nick Holland  •  May 6, 2019

ISMG and Zscaler hosted a roundtable dinner in Morristown, New Jersey on April 11 focused on security's role in digital transformation.

Multi-factor & Risk-based Authentication

The Vision for Omnichannel Authentication

Information Security Media Group  •  May 3, 2019

Enterprises today have many digital ways of interacting with their customers - and therefore just as many ways for authenticating those users and transactions. Sesh Venkataraman of CA Technologies explains the business value of omnichannel authentication solutions.

Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development

Assessing the Cyber Threat Landscape

Tom Field  •  May 2, 2019

The 2018 cybersecurity landscape ushered in a blend of old and new threats, some of them game-changing, according to Trend Micro's Annual Security Roundup. Trend's Greg Young shares insight from this report.

Business Email Compromise (BEC)

Enhancing Office 365 to Securely Manage and Share Sensitive Information

Information Security Media Group  •  April 24, 2019

Email is still the fundamental driver for Office 365 and the biggest risk to data security and compliance.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Cryptolocker Motivates City of Westland, MI to Change Security Strategy

Daniel Bourdeau  •  April 16, 2019

Watch this brief video interview to learn more about how the city of Westland achieved their security goals by harnessing AI to gain the most real-time visibility into their environment.