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Despite heading a company that provides a technological solution for stopping targeted email attacks, Evan Reiser, CEO of Abnormal Security, knows that technology is not the complete answer to the malicious email problem. "Some businesses are giving up on technology and defaulting to an awareness-based security program for detecting email attacks, but that sets them up for failure. Our brains are wired to look for patterns and repeat processes, so for something that we do daily like email, it's only a matter of time before an employee accidentally clicks a link from a 'trusted' company," he told Help Net Security.
Through partnership with the Defense Digital Service, the U.S. Department of Defense and HackerOne, the number one hacker-powered pentesting and bug bounty platform, announced the results of the second Army bug bounty program, 'Hack the Army 2.0'. Fifty-two trusted hackers participated in the Hack the Army 2.0 bug bounty challenge, reporting 146 valid vulnerabilities over the course of five-weeks.
MobileIron announced that its FedRAMP Authorized MobileIron Cloud offering now includes MobileIron Threat Defense. This means federal agencies can build upon MobileIron Cloud with MTD for mobile threat detection and remediation.
Organizations should long ago have put in place multifactor authentication and a breach response plan and continued to actively shore up any defenses that are lagging. Here's the U.S. government once again warning organizations that support critical infrastructure to do the basics.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses why cyber defense teams need to think more like attackers. Plus, a case study on cross-border payment fraud, and an expert's take on...
University of Arizona-led teams will be more proactive in the battle against cyberthreats thanks to nearly $1.5 million in grants from the National Science Foundation.
Manufacturers and utilities rank highest while e-commerce companies come in last.
Cymatic announced the release of its next-generation all-in-one web application defense platform to protect organizations from Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) top 10 threats,...
Security discussions today seem to start as a ‘them vs. us’ conversation; good guys and bad guys competing to stay ahead of each other. When we were working inside well-defined architectural lines...