Microsoft Surface delivers on power and speed, but is the data on your device secure?
The rapidly growing remote workforce is dramatically changing how we live and work to meet the new hybrid collaborative economy. According to TechRadar, 82% of managers say that even post-COVID they will have more flexible remote working policies. This demands more flexibility and mobility with the tools we use to get the job done –… Read More
Understanding the impacts of a data breach
As the home office and remote working creates new, unforeseen vulnerabilities in data security, so have the costs of incidents risen dramatically. According to research from McAfee and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the total global cost of cybercrime has surpassed $1 trillion per year, and about $500,000 per company. One of the… Read More
Examining cybersecurity before holiday shopping
While October is Cyber Security Awareness month, it turns out November 30 was Computer Security Day. As the holiday season now coming upon a quarantined populace, it can be useful to examine how things stand in the field of cybersecurity, since few things have such an impact on consumer shopping online. According to a study… Read More
Differing attitudes toward security create remote working risks
We’ve examined in recent weeks the risks that come from widespread remote working. Now, thanks to a study from Tessian, new insights are coming to light. Most notably, a disconnect persists between IT staff and an organization’s employees regarding best security behaviors. Surveying 2,000 professionals in the US and UK, Tessian found that only about… Read More
Data sharing, collection, and personal privacy concerns
The security risks created by COVID-19 continue to abound. Applications have proliferated in the wild, offering concerned people the chance to test themselves for Coronavirus. Now, I haven’t used any of these apps, I don’t know how reliable they are, but the point is they are being used. People are submitting copious amounts of data… Read More
Preparing for the New Year in Cybersecurity
A new FireEye survey is out this month, and it’s interesting, so I wanted to look in to it, and compare it to the Avertium study we covered last time. One part that stuck out is that this study is even more optimistic about increasing cybersecurity spending. The latter figure was from approximately half of… Read More
New Ransomware, New Attitudes
Characters in fiction usually have a dark foil as an antagonist. Superman and Bizarro, Frodo and Gollum, Jerry and Newman. But what about encryption? For as heroic as it is and the good it does, what happens when we come up against the dark side of encryption? Yeah, ok, that sounds cheesy. It is, however,… Read More
Encryption as Part of the Defense Strategy
I always take slight issue with data security articles that say in the title that encryption won’t protect against breaches. To me it’s a little misleading. It carries the implication that encryption is almost unnecessary, when that’s not what the article actually goes on to say. Quite the opposite. Rather, what they invariably mean is… Read More
Facebook isn’t providing identity theft protection for users
Following up on Facebook’s latest data scandal, new updates have been rolling in. For instance, did you know that only 30 million accounts were breached in total, and not the 50 million as initially reported? I guess the company found that 40% reduction satisfactory enough to justify their latest action—or inaction, as it were. I… Read More
Will Americans Want Their Own GDPR?
Here is something interesting I hadn’t considered in our last GDPR write-up. As Isaac Cohen at CSO Online points out, all the privacy notification emails US citizens are receiving in light of the new European regulations are alerting them to guidelines that otherwise might have escaped their notice. As a result, the public is being… Read More