Security News > 2017 > March

Why Is Digital Property Monitored Less than Physical Property? (InfoSecIsland)
2017-03-09 14:15

If we were to place as much emphasis on monitoring events that take place on our IT systems as we do monitoring spending habits and shoplifting, many of the data breaches we hear about today could...

DevSecOps: Building continuous security into IT and app infrastructures (Help Net Security)
2017-03-09 14:00

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, Chris Carlson, VP of Product Management, Cloud Agent Platform at Qualys, talks about DevSecOps. Instead of making security a trade-off at the end...

The security threat of quantum computing is real, and it’s coming fast (Help Net Security)
2017-03-09 13:30

The threat quantum computers pose on encryption is weighing on the minds of some of the world’s most technologically advanced nations: In 2016 alone, the EU announced a $1.13B investment in the...

What’s the security posture of the Fortune 1000? (Help Net Security)
2017-03-09 12:30

BitSight analyzed the security posture of some of the world’s largest organizations, and identified the most common system compromises. For comparison, Fortune 1000 companies were studied...

Google Discloses Details of an Unpatched Microsoft Vulnerability (Schneier on Security)
2017-03-09 12:28

Google's Project Zero is serious about releasing the details of security vulnerabilities 90 days after they alert the vendors, even if they're unpatched. It just exposed a nasty vulnerability in...

Exchanges in History: What Third Party Cyber Risk Management (TPRM) Programs Can Learn from the Past (InfoSecIsland)
2017-03-09 11:40

Throughout history, whenever organizations, governments, or industries have used an exchange to share information, great transformation has taken place.

Encrypted messaging app Confide suffers from many security issues (Help Net Security)
2017-03-08 22:47

Confide, the encrypted instant messaging application with a self-destructing messaging system that has become popular with White House staffers, is not so secure after all. IOActive released today...