Insider Threat (Fundamentals) As discussed, the insider threats are not always bred out of malicious nature. In fact, many insider threats exist due to the unintended or accidental happenings. More than 51% of companies are concerned about the unintentional insider attack. However, 49% of the companies are still worried about malicious insider, which do exist and are … Read more
When hackers look for targets, they typically focus on big organizations because they’re the ones with the most credit cards, state secrets and other lucrative hauls, right? Wrong. As the widely reported Target credit card breach shows, hackers often focus on small organizations as a way to attack large enterprises and government agencies. In February … Read more
If your end-users lack awareness, your sensitive data will be at risk Background Approximately 50 percent of all security breaches within the Federal Government are caused by a lack of user compliance, according to a report released last year by MeriTalk and developed in collaboration with Akamai Technologies, Inc.1 This illustrates that even though security … Read more
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.” — Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez: a Life “Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The … Read more
There is a Method to the Madness of Criminal Intent Late last summer, open source news reporting indicated that Chinese hackers may have been to blame for the breach of information at USIS, which is the major US contractor for security background investigations for the US Government. Initial estimates indicate that the hacking included more … Read more
Do the current techniques to conduct incident management and response constitute an effective counter threat operation? In today’s threat landscape, chasing down alerts from your SEIM may not be enough to catch the most advanced threats. Today’s Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) link sociological, psychological, and technical tradecraft together to infiltrate the most secure networks, and … Read more
“Corporate America is under attack” has become a more regular headline with media outlets. Such reports often describe the attack and loss, but few explain why it happened and even fewer take the time to describe how not to let it happen. Even organizations focus on the attack, loss, and why the attack happened when … Read more
Experts Warn U.S. Companies Unwittingly in Full-On Economic War We live in a truly exciting time. Advances in technology permeate every aspect of our lives and enrich nearly everything we are involved in. Along with all the good technology brings us, there is also a dark side. At the same time, the dark side also … Read more
