Threat Hunting Reduces Hacker Residence on a Breached Site
Average dwell time, where a hacker inhabits a breached system, is 200 days, said Bob Stasio of DreamIt Ventures, a cybersecurity company that hunts for intruders on organization systems. He…
Bruce Schneier: Government Needs to be Part of the Cybersecurity Solution
“Everything today is a computer,” declared Cyber Security Summit 2018 keynoter Bruce Schneier, CTO, IBM Resilient. IoT is the “computerization” of the whole world, making exponentially complex the safeguarding of…
Email Continues to Account for 90% of Phishing Attacks
Based on their behavior, cyber attackers seem to agree that old, proven tools are hard to beat. Email remains a cost-effective go-to tool for launching a cyber assault, relying on…
Cyber Security Summit Notes: Four Current Top-Line Policy Trends
Public policy trends drive what will happen with future cybersecurity regulation. Matthew Rhoades, Managing Director of the Cybersecurity and Technology Program at the Aspen Institute, reviewed four current top-line trends…
Patient Safety Unites Rival Medtech Firms
Cybersecurity challenges are turning natural competitors into willing collaborators as companies try to ward off the shared threat of attack. By Michael Border “Oops, your important files are encrypted,” a…
Arduous Search Yields Security Best Practices
Tony Sager is a Senior VP and Chief Evangelist for the Center for Internet Security. He leads the development of the CIS Critical Security Controls, a worldwide consensus project to…
Target Cyber Security Chief Shares His Formula for Building a Loyal Team
Target Corp. experienced a serious system breach in 2013, introduced through an inadequately protected downstream supplier in what has become a textbook case of a hack to avoid. Tim Crothers…
Understanding Human Element in Cybercrime is Key to Stemming the Problem
Summit Keynote Speaker Dr. Shima Keene presented The Nexus of Cybersecurity, Crime and Terrorism. She is a Director of the Conflict Studies Research Centre, Oxford, UK, and is affiliated…
FireEye Threat Analyst Lists Current Cyberattack Statistics
Kevin Thompson, Threat Analyst for FireEye, earlier worked as a cyber analyst for the CIA, covering Eastern Europe and Russia and briefing numerous government agencies on future potential incidents. His…
Risks Factors Growing, Cyber Defense Only Partly Defined
Truman Center Policy Program Manager Dan Paltiel, a keynote speaker at Cyber Security Summit 2016, spoke on the current state of cyber defense in Cyber After 2016: Protecting Your Network…
Teasing Out Data Jumble to Make Plots and Actors Emerge
Senior Product Manager Bob Stasio of IBM i2 Safer Planet was keynote speaker for Cyber Security Summit 2016. Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Stasio worked in threat intelligence programs at…
Lt. Gen. Ron Burgess: Weakest link in security chain generally the individual
Lt. Gen. (ret) Ronald Lee Burgess, Jr., who served as the 17th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was one of the keynote speakers at Cyber Security Summit 2016 in…
DHS Under Secretary: Vibrancy Makes Us Attractive Target for Hackers
“Minnesota is adding tech jobs at the greatest rate of anywhere in the country,” declared Suzanne Spaulding, Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) at the…
Realities of today’s digital economy
Amid mushrooming IoT device sales and attendant channel transaction growth, findings from a recent study raise serious concerns about just how effectively online businesses are able to safeguard their stakeholders’…
Study: Once inside, hackers don’t need malware
Once they have breached a system, most hackers no longer need malware, according to a new study by LightCyber, a provider of Behavioral Attack Detection solutions. According to the company's…