“Current employees” were the biggest cause of security incidents in 2015 - surpassing hackers, contractors, and organized crime syndicates, according to a PriceWaterhouseCoopers report. While you work to guard against outside IT security threats like ransomware, it’s easy to forget that the biggest threat to your business could be sitting in the cubicle next to your office. To prevent the “insider threat” from stealing your data, you’ll first have to find out who the insider threat is - a process known as “insider threat detection.” We’ll give you 5 tips for insider threat detection that will help you track, identify, and shut down any current employee who poses a risk to your organization. But before we do that, let’s define … [Read more...] about 5 Best Practices for Insider Threat Detection
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Healthcare Data Security: Proven Solutions to Major Problems
2015 was the “year of the healthcare breach.” There were 5 mega-breaches which resulted in over 100 million patient records being exposed, according to IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Report 2016. And healthcare data security didn’t fare any better in 2016. According to Symantec’s 2017 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), the number of reported breach incidents increased by 22 percent last year, rising to 328 from 269 in 2015 - with healthcare being the 2nd most attacked service in the “Services” industry category. 2016 was also the year of email cyberattacks on healthcare. Symantec’s 2017 ISTR found that 54% of their emails contained spam, 1 in 4,375 emails were phishing attempts, and the number of email-borne … [Read more...] about Healthcare Data Security: Proven Solutions to Major Problems
How to Get Rid of Adware with These 5 Tips
250 million PC’s were infected with malware earlier this year that seemed benign but turned out to be extremely dangerous. The malware was known as Fireball and was packaged within numerous types of adware. According to Checkpoint, it was designed to change your default search engine and track your web traffic on behalf of a digital marketing firm in Beijing named Rafotech. But that’s not the dangerous part... The dangerous part of Fireball was this: It had the capability to take over any code on the victim’s computer or download additional malware, turning your computer into a zombie that’s easily manipulated by an opportunistic hacker. If you want to learn how to get rid of adware that carries malware like Fireball, … [Read more...] about How to Get Rid of Adware with These 5 Tips
Firmware Security Vulnerabilities and How to Prevent Them
Did you know that hackers can bypass your antivirus scans by embedding malware into the firmware of your machine? Firmware security isn’t as secure as it should be, especially in the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) of most computers. According to Xeno Kovah and Corey Kallenberg in a report from Wired, many BIOS share some of the same code, which allowed these 2 researchers to uncover vulnerabilities in 80 percent of the PCs they examined, including ones from Dell, Lenovo, and HP. Xeno Kovah subsequently went on to work with Trammell Hudson to develop a worm that could infect Mac PC’s effortlessly, according to another report from Wired. In the study “Firmware Security Risks and Mitigation, Enterprise Practices and … [Read more...] about Firmware Security Vulnerabilities and How to Prevent Them
How to Protect Against Ransomware: 7 Ways to Stop the Worst Cyberthreat
Global ransomware damage costs predicted to exceed $5 billion in 2017, up from $325 million in 2015, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. And it gets worse... Steve Morgan, founder and Editor-In-Chief at Cybersecurity Ventures said in the same report, “While the percentage of ransom victims who pay Bitcoin to hackers in hopes of reclaiming their data appears to be on the decline, the total damage costs in connection to ransomware attacks is skyrocketing. We believe ransom payouts are the least of all damage cost contributors.” Mike Fey, president and COO of Symantec, said, “The ‘clean up’ for companies who were impacted by WannaCry will be enormous, including months of recovery time for IT departments and multi-millions in cost for … [Read more...] about How to Protect Against Ransomware: 7 Ways to Stop the Worst Cyberthreat