Security News

Exposure validation emerges as critical cyber defense component
2025-04-25 05:00

Organizations have implemented various aspects of threat exposure validation, including security control validation (51%) and filtering threat exposures based on the effectiveness of security...

America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside
2025-04-23 08:27

The CVE system nearly dying shows that someone has lost the plot Opinion We almost lost the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database system, but that's only the tip of the iceberg of...

11 cyber defense tips to stay secure at work and home
2025-04-08 13:00

Cybersecurity is inextricably tied to the technology it protects. Just as technology continues to grow in variety, quantity, and presence in all of our lives, so too does cybersecurity and our...

Building a reasonable cyber defense program
2025-04-01 13:00

If you do business in the United States, especially across state lines, you probably know how difficult it is to comply with U.S. state data privacy laws. The federal government and many U.S....

Using cognitive diversity for stronger, smarter cyber defense
2025-01-15 05:00

In this Help Net Security interview, Mel Morris, CEO of Corpora.ai, discusses how cognitive biases affect decision-making during cybersecurity incidents. Morris shares insights on the challenges...

UK plans to revamp national cyber defense tools are already in motion
2024-08-02 10:34

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre says it's in the planning stages of bringing a new suite of services to its existing Active Cyber Defence program. Existing services under ACD 1.0 such as Logging Made Easy and Protective DNS are already run by external partners - CISA and Cloudflare respectively - but some, such as Early Warning, can only ever be run by the NCSC due to their very nature.

The impossibility of “getting ahead” in cyber defense
2024-07-02 04:00

A future-oriented cyber defense is therefore not about getting ahead, but about building systems that are inherently more likely to function when components or other systems become compromised, as they inevitably will, sooner or later. Traffic lights "Fail safe" to red, reducing risks of collisions when the system stalls for any reason.

Why Regulated Industries are Turning to Military-Grade Cyber Defenses
2024-06-14 11:01

As cyber threats loom large and data breaches continue to pose increasingly significant risks. Organizations and industries that handle sensitive information and valuable assets make prime targets...

Improving cyber defense with open source SIEM and XDR
2024-05-15 17:10

Developing an effective strategy is a continuous process which requires recurring evaluation and refinement Partner Content A cyber defense strategy outlines policies, procedures, and technologies...

How to Make Your Employees Your First Line of Cyber Defense
2024-05-01 11:03

There’s a natural human desire to avoid threatening scenarios. The irony, of course, is if you hope to attain any semblance of security, you’ve got to remain prepared to confront those very same...