When it comes to fraud prevention, many organizations overlook the insider threat - both the malicious actor who intends to commit fraud as well as the accidental insider who makes a mistake or is taken advantage of by an external entity. The CERT Insider Threat Center at Carnegie Mellon University is one of the...
Every day, financial institutions face an onslaught of automated attacks on their web and mobile applications by all types of fraudsters. Some test millions of stolen credentials on login applications to commit account takeover; others create thousands of accounts on account registration applications to validate...
In the era of big data, machine learning and cloud computing, how do you know what to invest in to keep customers happy and to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated fraud attacks? In this session, the general manager of payments and fraud prevention at Amazon Web Services - one of the fastest growing technology...
Fraud resulting from cyber theft continues to plague organizations as attackers use more aggressive means of gaining access to critical data more frequently. From the CEO's cellphone to it partners and vendors (and their children), everyone is a target. Business leaders need to understand the implications of choosing...
In 2017, there was an explosion of ransomware. Now in 2018, we see an equally explosive increase in covert cryptocurrency mining installations. Both of these fraud techniques are able to be perpetrated because of lax controls around privileged access. Traditional approaches to privileged access and identity management...
The digital transformation is well underway, with new market entrants and established players deploying new digital services that enable digital-first consumers to open new accounts and access services. With the volume of personal information publicly available in social networks and in the cyber underground,...
Ira "Gus" Hunt, a security expert who was formerly CTO at the CIA, analyzes why many large healthcare provider organizations plan to boost cybersecurity spending in 2018 and discusses the role of emerging technologies.
If you want to anticipate a prospective hacker's moves, then you'd better be able to think like one. Whether corporations like it or not, they're actually being tested by cyber criminals as we speak.
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The definition of then term "cyologist";
Why we need to...
"Machines" as we know them are going through an identity crisis. Our increased dependence on them is so profound that even the definition of machine is undergoing radical change. The number and type of physical devices on enterprise networks has been rising rapidly, but this is outstripped by the number of...
A recently published 2017 survey of over 400 security professionals in the U.S., U.K. and Germany measured how well their organizations implemented security controls for SSH keys. The results show that most organizations are underprepared to protect against SSH-based attacks, with fewer than half following industry...
SSH keys provide the highest level of access rights and privileges for servers, applications and virtual instances. Cyber criminals want this trusted status and invest considerable resources into acquiring and using SSH keys in their attacks.
Even though SSH keys are the credentials that provide the most privileged...
A recent global survey found that 52% of businesses admit that employees are their biggest weakness in IT security, with their careless actions putting business IT security strategy at risk.
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Common security mistakes employees make;
How BYOD is making security more...
This monthly Security Agenda will highlight some of the most recent additions to our course library. This month's edition features New York Presbyterian's Jennings Aske on getting serious about medical device security. Another influencer, John Gunn of VASCO discusses the ISMG Faces of Fraud 2017: Survey Analysis and...
Yes, malware commonly targets the Windows operating system. But if you limit malware analysis to Windows OS, you're leaving gaping vulnerabilities, says Christopher Kruegel of Lastline Inc. Here's how to maximize your analysis.
One common limitation of malware analysis is that organizations focus too much of their...
The global cybersecurity skills shortage is real, and it's deeply impacting organizations' abilities to implement and manage new technology tools. But worse, it's also affecting how organizations assess their adversaries.
What does the security team need to do? What requires protecting in the business? Where is it,...
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