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FireEye’s Nart Villeneuve: Hacker Group ‘Ajax’ Targets Dissidents in Iran
FireEye has uncovered evidence of a hacking organization that has been operating since 2009 and has primarily targeted both Iranian dissidents and U.S. defense businesses. Dubbed “Ajax Security Team,” the…
NJVC’s Robert Michalsky: Verizon Data Breach Report to Guide Cyber Risk Management
As Verizon releases the 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, NJVC Principal Robert Michalsky notes that 92 percent of the more than 100,000 breaches and security incidents covered in the past decade can be grouped within nine attack…
McKinsey Report Examines Cybercrime’s Effects on Business Strategies
A study by McKinsey & Co. and the World Economic Forum found that more than 50 percent of professionals worldwide believe that cybersecurity threats pose strategic risks to their organizations….
Lockheed Helps Nonprofit Add Cyber Standards Into Open Source Platform; Rohan Amin Comments
Lockheed Martin has partnered with the Open Information Security Foundation to integrate cybersecurity standards into OISF’s open source intrusion detection and intrusion prevention platform for automated sharing of cyber threat data. The company…
Mohamed Abdelhak: IBM, Mobily to Help Review Saudi Ministry’s Data Protection Strategy
Saudi Arabia’s education ministry has selected IBM and Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) to look at how the country’s school system can strengthen its information security by using the companies’ assessment tools. Mohamed…
Jim Reno: CA to Help Security Consortium Partners Hit ‘Zero-Friction’ Authentication
CA Technologies has joined a cybersecurity alliance that seeks to craft multi-factor authentication standards for securing online transactions. The company sought to bring its experience in securing identities and data…
David Cronin: Booz Allen Offers Guidelines to Help Utilities Fight Cyber Threats
Booz Allen Hamilton has created a set of guidelines for energy companies to protect infrastructures from cyber attacks and to help operators comply with security standards established by the North…
IBM Unveils Threat, Data Defense Tools; Kristin Lovejoy Comments
IBM has introduced two security tools that the company built to help large enterprise customers safeguard their data and systems from cyber threats, USA Today reported Monday. Elizabeth Weise writes…
Vormetric’s Damian Harvey: IT Pros Not Yet Fully Aware of Insider Threat Impact
Damian Harvey, country manager for Australia and New Zealand at Vormetric, said Australian information technology professionals have yet to become fully aware of the damage an insider threat could bring to…
Tech Association Responds to Proposed Cyber Requirements for Gov’t Contractors
The Telecommunications Industry Association has submitted comments to the General Services Administration on a proposal to adopt cybersecurity standards for the federal acquisition and contracting process, FCW reported Tuesday. Mark…
SafeNet: Global Data Breaches Up 200% in Q1 2014
SafeNet‘s Breach Level Index report indicates that hackers stole more than 200 million records in the first quarter of 2014, a 233 percent increase as compared to the same period…
Christopher Zannetos: Employee Education, Access Mgmt Can Support IT Security Teams
A new survey from Courion evaluated how the role of the information technology executive has changed and how the executive’s team tam function as a support system, Christopher Zannetos, president and…
Ed Hammersla: Raytheon Applied Customer Feedback to Update Cyber, Insider Threat Tool
Raytheon worked with user feedback on previous versions of an insider threat and policy management product to include new features in an upgraded package. The company built PUMA Policy Pack…
Verizon’s Janet Brumfield: Enterprises Should Consider Partnering With MSSPs
Verizon Enterprise Solutions recommends that companies partner with a managed security service provider to defend their networks against cyberattacks as they turn to technologies such as mobility, big data and cloud. Janet…
TCS Helps Launch Cyber Training Courses; Drew Morin Comments
TeleCommunication Systems has partnered with the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants to introduce its cyber training courses to help meet the demand for cybersecurity training services. The Center for Advanced… Read more »