The news these days on cybersecurity is often grim. High-profile data breaches affect millions of consumers, data sabotage threatens vital infrastructure and systems, and massive phishing schemes wreak havoc on personal privacy. Cybersecurity...
Whether they’re signing up for a gym membership or downloading a new app, it seems like people are perpetually being asked for their personal information. And while consumers may have varying levels of trust in the organizations making the...
Apr 11, '19 by Joerg Schneider-Simon
As 2018 drew to a close, another high-profile data hack hit the news: This time, the victim was hospitality giant Marriott. The breach was initially thought to have affected up to 500 million people, with their personal data — including millions...
Information security professionals and CIOs are feeling the squeeze. Not only is the number of data breaches increasing all the time, but the number of available cybersecurity professionals is decreasing.
As a result, IS teams face a constant...
Managers tasked with SAP cybersecurity used to have a (slightly) easier time with threat management. The primary reason? Every SAP end user was contained within the company’s four walls. All endpoints were known, and the SAP system was a closed...
Keeping your SAP system safe from cyberattack takes time, effort, and manpower. Busy cybersecurity teams are no strangers to effort, but time and manpower? Those are in short supply nowadays.
Shorthanded and short-on-time teams are faced with...
Another year, another listing of the top 25 most popular passwords, with the top two spots being taken, yet again, by “123456” and “password.”
People are notoriously terrible at choosing secure passwords. That is why when biometric-based...
During this time of year, it’s natural to look to the year ahead and predict what it will bring. Cybersecurity experts have been doing this for decades, analyzing trends and developments to estimate a forthcoming landscape and alerting...
Dec 17, '18 by Joerg Schneider-Simon
Quick: When you think of data breaches, what comes to mind?
If you’re like most people, you think of cyberattacks that target structured, secured databases. These cyberattackers steal reams of sensitive data, often selling the data to the highest...