UK businesses are most concerned about the susceptibility of 5G to cyber attacks according to EY’s latest Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) research. 40 percent of respondents are worried about 5G and cyber attacks while a similar percentage (37 percent) were cautious over the security of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity. The survey also found… Continue reading Risks for UK businesses adopting 5G and IoT assessed by EY

The constant stresses from advanced malware to zero-day vulnerabilities can easily turn into employee overload with potentially dangerous consequences. Here’s how to turn down the pressure. Cybersecurity is one of the only IT roles where there are people actively trying to ruin your day, 24/7. The pressure concerns are well documented. A 2018 global survey of 1,600… Continue reading Why Cybersecurity Burnout Is Real (and What to Do About It)

Preparing a business for the unknown requires a series of important steps to protect your employees and your operations. For many business owners, this foundation starts with an emergency plan and grows to include a business continuity plan, an inclement weather policy, and perhaps even a lone worker policy to keep employees safe. So, you’ve made your… Continue reading HOW TABLETOP EXERCISES CAN HELP PREPARE FOR EMERGENCIES

What You Need to Know for 2019 – and Beyond In the fast-moving world of cybersecurity, predicting the full threat landscape is near impossible. But it is possible to extrapolate major risks in the coming months based on trends and events of last year. Anthony J. Ferrante, Global Head of Cybersecurity at FTI Consulting, outlines… Continue reading 10 Corporate Cybersecurity Predictions

Companies think their data is safer in the public cloud than in on-prem data centers, but the transition is driving security issues. More business-critical data is finding a new home in the public cloud, which 72% of organizations believe is more secure than their on-prem data centers. But the cloud is fraught with security challenges:… Continue reading As Businesses Move Critical Data to Cloud, Security Risks Abound

ASSP TR-Z590.5-2019 provides guidance from safety experts on proactive steps businesses can take to reduce the risk of an active shooter, prepare employees and ensure a coordinated response should a hostile event occur. It also provides post-incident guidance and best practices for implementing a security plan audit. Active shooter fatalities spiked to 729 deaths in… Continue reading What Is the Active Shooter/Armed Assailant Technical Report

A new toolkit developed by the Global Cybersecurity Alliance aims to give small businesses a cookbook for better cybersecurity. Small and mid-sized businesses have most of the same cybersecurity concerns of larger enterprises. What they don’t have are the resources to deal with them. A new initiative, the Cybersecurity Toolkit, is intended to bridge that… Continue reading Mastercard, GCA Create Small Business Cybersecurity Toolkit

Bankers around the world are rightly worried about the threats posed by digital disruptors getting in between them and their retail banking customers. But Forrester’s newest research reveals that executives should be just as worried — perhaps even more worried — about another market that is being upended: Small business banking. Small and medium-sized businesses (also called small and… Continue reading Small Business Banking Has Been Disrupted (And There’s No Going Back)

New data from CrowdStrike’s incident investigations in 2018 uncover just how quickly nation-state hackers from Russia, North Korea, China, and Iran pivot from patient zero in a target organization. It takes Russian nation-state hackers just shy of 19 minutes to spread beyond their initial victims in an organization’s network – yet another sign of how… Continue reading 19 Minutes to Escalation: Russian Hackers Move the Fastest