There are many threats to enterprise cyber security with most coming from external threat actors. One of the most overlooked threats that companies are not safe from is insider threats. Security professionals are constantly being warned about insider threats and in A10 Networks AIR report earlier this year almost half (48 percent) of IT leaders say they agree or strongly agree that their employees do not care about its security practices. With companies aware of the issue, what...

Bottom line: Zero Trust Security (ZTS) strategies enabled by Next-Gen Access (NGA) are indispensable for assuring uninterrupted digital business growth, and are proving to be a scalable security framework for streamlining onboarding and systems access for sales channels, partners, patients, and customers of fast-growing businesses.

The era of Zero Trust Security is here, accelerated by NGA solutions and driven by the needs of digital businesses for security strategies that can keep up with the rapidly expanding...

Research by network control company Infoblox found that connecting IoT and personal devices to enterprise networks expose the networks to massive security risk including malware injection, phishing and social engineering hacks.

In the research, 35% of enterprises in the US, UK and Germany stated that every day their networks see over 5,000 personal device connections. On the contrary, only 16% of enterprises in the UAE report to have over 500 personal devices connected to their networks. On a typical day,...

Today, May 3, is World Password Day. It’s a ‘celebration’ to promote better password habits. We’ve long viewed the password as a critical gatekeeper to our digital identities, safeguarding our online shopping, banking, social media, sensitive data, and business communications.

But has the password had its day? Best practise recommends the use of complex passwords that include upper and lower case letters, symbols and numbers put together randomly. The password should be at a minimum 8...

Last November I was asked for my 2018 cybersecurity predictions, and I was most confident about one. That projection: the phishing awareness training market was primed for consolidation.

Fast-forward just a few months and my inner genie certainly appears to be out of the bottle. By January 3, Barracuda Networks had announced its acquisition of Phishline, a social engineering training platform, for an undisclosed amount. Shortly thereafter, Proofpoint...

With cyber-attacks on the rise most IT professionals acknowledge it’s no longer a question of if their organisation will get hacked, but when.

Last year the cyber-attack toll hit an all-time high. According to research by Risk Based Security, 2017 saw a record-breaking 5,000 cyber breaches and resulted in a staggering 7.89 billion records being compromised. Big brand names like Verifone, Verizon, eBay, Uber and Equifax all fell victim to breaches that exposed the personal data of millions of...

Enterprise mobility management (EMM) software provider MobileIron has announced an expansion of its partnership with Lenovo, aiming to create a unified hardware and software experience for organisations.

Last year’s Mobile World Congress saw the first announcement of the partnership, whereby Lenovo customers could purchase MobileIron’s security and management platform alongside...

The wild swings in the value of Bitcoin have been widely reported over the last few months drawing broad public attention to the cryptocurrency previously known mostly in cyber-world. Reports of players getting rich overnight buying and trading Bitcoin have blanketed the internet. Other reports of 50% overnight swings in Bitcoin value have also drawn much attention. Here are a few thoughts on the sudden rise in popularity of cryptocurrencies, the underlying technology and the risks to the players.

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Gamification could be the key tool to instil a better cybersecurity posture in your organisation – with gamers potentially representing the next generation of threat hunters.

That is the primary finding from a new report by McAfee which polled 950 cybersecurity managers at organisations with 500 or more employees. The study, titled ‘Winning the Game’, argues popular security competition games, such as capture the flag, make sense from an inter-organisational perspective. Four in 10 companies...

California-based cloud-based security firm Qualys has acquired the software assets of Singapore-based 1Mobility, allowing it to fully integrate the latter’s solutions in its cloud platform and mobile applications.

The move allows Qualys to help enterprises develop and continuously update an inventory on all available mobile operating systems.

The integration will also allow enterprises to continuously assess their security and compliance posture, while quarantining devices that are compromised or...