Posts tagged with cybersecurity
Business travelers should fly under the radar
Thanks to the constant availability of today’s mobile network coverage and public Wi-Fi hotspots, we tend to take connectivity for granted. Our smartphones and mobile devices are with us wherever we...
Addressing Cryptocurrency Trading Security Issues
Cryptocurrency trading has been gathering pace over the past few years and has been compared to the American Wild West. Early adventurers have faced tremendous risks in terms of extreme market...
Top Concerns for Digital Assistants in the Workplace
Digital assistants like Amazon’s Alexa/Echo, Apple Homekit and Google Home are increasingly becoming part of the connected home. The Alexa for Business Platform, announced at the end of 2017, is set...
Does more surveillance offer more protection?
The trend towards greater state surveillance has become even more obvious since Edward Snowden’s revelations. Governments frequently justify such invasions of their citizens’ privacy as...
Trouble in store? Don’t forget VPN
For a couple of years now security breaches in the retail sector have seldom been out of the headlines. Breaches at large retail chains like Target, Neiman Marcus and The Home Depot in 2014 were...
Big data, big security questions
Half of enterprises today store sensitive information within big data environments (up from 31 percent in 2015). Influential agencies like ENISA warn there are considerable cyber risks from using big...
Back to Basics: Tackling the Fundamental Cybersecurity Solutions [VIDEO]
It’s fair to say that organizations, particularly larger enterprises, are making more concerted efforts nowadays to invest heavily and quickly into cybersecurity. Just a few short years ago,...
Does Bringing an ’Ethical Hacker’ In House Pay Off?
A study last year estimated that the global losses from cybercrime ranged from $375 to $575 billion – for just 2014 alone. This figure is only expected to get higher with each passing year as...
Cybersecurity Isn’t Generational: Why Millennials May Not Be the Tech Hope of the Future
Of all the assumptions made and beliefs held about millennials, one of the most common is that they’re uniquely tech-savvy. After all, this is the first generation to grow up being exposed first to...
Smaller Scale Is No Defense: Why SMBs Should Assume They’re Already Targets of Cyberattackers
You would be hard pressed to go a month without hearing about a new data breach or major cyberattack in the headlines. These incidents occur with such regularity nowadays that seemingly every industry...