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...
Nov 26, '18 by Joerg Schneider-Simon
It may be hard to believe, but six months have passed since the GDPR deadline. During that time, companies (including bowbridge) contacted their lists, seeking active consent to continue sending them information. GDPR opt-in emails were so...
“I have read and understood the company’s IT policy.”
Employees check the box, but are they adhering to the policy? The evidence suggests otherwise: In a survey of IT professionals, employees leaving laptops and phones unsecured in vulnerable...