The "zero trust" model can play a critical role in mitigating emerging threats. That's why Information Security Media Group will host on Aug. 4 a virtual cybersecurity summit for Southeast Asia on applying the model.
The "zero trust" model can play a critical role in mitigating emerging threats. That's why Information Security Media Group will host on July 27 a virtual cybersecurity summit for India on applying the model.
Following Twitter's admission that cryptocurrency scammers socially engineered its employees to gain control of 45 high-profile accounts, one reaction has been: Why didn't anyone crack Twitter sooner? Unfortunately, the answer is that they have, especially if you count nation-states bribing insiders.
Twitter says attackers who hijacked more than 130 high-profile Twitter accounts used social engineering to bypass its defenses, including two-factor authentication on accounts. Experts say companies must have defenses in place against such schemes, which have long been employed by fraudsters.
As companies lay off employees and deal with financial challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, they're also facing an increase in the number of insider fraud incidents, says Randy Trzeciak, director of the National Insider Threat Center at Carnegie Mellon University, who offers fraud detection tips.
An identity and access management strategy for a hybrid cloud environment should include single sign-on as well as multifactor authentication, says Andrew Koh, deputy general manager and regional lead-Risk at Habib Bank Ltd. in Singapore.
As the risks to IT and OT converge, organizations must ramp up their threat intelligence information sharing mechanisms and build a more comprehensive cybersecurity policy, says Singapore-based John Lee, managing director of GRF Asia, a federation for building global resilience.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the surge in the use of employee monitoring tools for the increasingly remote workforce. Also featured: Discussions about IoT security guidelines and CCPA compliance requirements.
With so many employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, vendors of time-tracking and productivity-monitoring software report surging interest in their wares. Regardless of whether organizations deploy light-touch or more Big Brother types of approaches, beware potential privacy repercussions.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses global progress on adopting standard digital identifiers. Plus, a former cybercriminal discusses emerging fraud trends, and an update on the evolution of e-signatures.
To mitigate cyberthreats, telecommunications companies in the GCC region need to enhance their incident detection and response capabilities, says Doha, Qatar-based Mustapha Huneyd, former global CISO of Ooredoo, a regional telecom firm.
Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, bundled with an orchestration layer, will help CISOs mitigate cyberthreats, says Bharat Anand, chief of technology at NATGRID, the intelligence sharing network of the government of India.
Organizations deploying deception technology must make sure to integrate it with other technologies to reap the full benefits of intrusion alerts, says Anuj Tewari, global CISO at IT Services HCL Technologies.
An internal CIA report from 2017 - just released in heavily redacted form - found that the agency's failure to secure its own systems facilitated the massive "Vault 7" data breach that enabled classified information, including details of 35 CIA hacking tools, to be leaked to WikiLeaks.
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