Amateur hacker carelessness and C-suite attention round out the top four cyber-threat trends of the year.
IBM: Ransomware, Insider Threats Top 2015 Cyber-Trends
Amateur hacker carelessness and C-suite attention round out the top four cyber-threat trends of the year.
RSA Appoints Fresh Strategy Chief
Appointment is a response to the security industry’s threat approach failing “spectacularly.”
Mobile Device Thefts Fall in UK
Bad news for BYOD as more mobiles are stolen in 10 cities.
UK Set to Double Funding for Cybercrime Fight
Chancellor will raise government’s stake to £1.9 billion by 2020
OIG: Department of Justice Facing Cyber Skills Crisis
FBI failed to find nearly half of the computer scientists it was sanctioned to hire.
TruSTAR Nabs $2M in Seed Money for Anonymized Threat-Sharing
“Connective defense technology” correlates incident data from its members, enabling companies to rapidly exchange information anonymously.
75% of Companies Are Insider Threat Victims
The largest single cause of confidential data loss is due to employees (42%).
Google Preps New Service after Global Email Encryption Warning
Security is improving, but messages are still sent in plain text.
Key Positive Enterprise Trends Emerge in Cybersecurity
Adoption of security frameworks, the use of Big Data analytics, more buy-in from execs and threat-intel partnering are all positive developments for 2016.