KK Mookhey has been keyed into the field of Information Security in India for over the last 14 years. He shares his insights on the emerging trends in Indian security today and the major milestones which transformed the sector.
Based on various economic models, the high annual cost of cybersecurity will not interfere with the long-term productivity benefits of IT, according to a new research report.
A password-cracking group claims that, because of coding errors made by Ashley Madison's developers, it has been able to recover 11.2 million users' plaintext passwords. The group believes that up to 15 million of the dating site's passwords can be easily cracked.
Security leaders must embrace new approaches to digital business in managing and mitigating enterprise risk. This was the key theme of Gartner's Security and Risk Management Summit - the first of its kind for India.
When it comes to infrastructure protection, Indian companies prefer the MSSP route to handle bottlenecks with respect to specialist manpower required for security, says Gartner's Rajpreet Kaur
The nature of today's threats has compelled organizations to adopt new tactics. Gartner's Lawrence Pingree says that attention to detection and response are at the forefront of the current evolution.
The federal government is licensing a government-built anomaly detection tool known as PathScan to Ernst & Young, which, in turn, will refine the software and market it. In an interview, DHS's Mike Pozmantier explains why the government is offering its technology to the private sector.
BlackBerry plans to buy mobile device management rival Good Technology for $425 million. BlackBerry must prep for a future in which it no longer manufactures hardware - and that's why this deal makes sense.
Mozilla, which maintains the Firefox browser, says an attacker infiltrated its bug-tracking tools, stole information on an unpatched flaw, and exploited users for at least three weeks, before the flaw was patched.
With automation and the increasing economic feasibility of launching targeted attacks on a small scale, tier-II and III organizations housing data need to start getting concerned, says Gartner's Ahlm.
With enterprises increasingly concerned about advanced persistent threats, ISMG speaks to experts for recommendations on building APT resilience in their organizations - both immediate and long-term.
Gartner says that India's security spending will grow by 8.3 percent this year and will rise even higher in 2016. Security leaders say these investments are mapped to address business risks and threats.
Sony Pictures Entertainment has reached a tentative deal to settle a class-action lawsuit filed against it, stemming from its 2014 data breach, which resulted in the leak of personal information for up to 50,000 employees.
More hackers are exploiting remote-access and network vulnerabilities, rather than installing malware to invade networks and exfiltrate data, says Dell SecureWorks' researcher Phil Burdette. That's why conventional breach-detection tools aren't catching the intrusions.
Policymakers must consider three factors before imposing sanctions in retaliation for state-backed hacks: Confidence in its attribution of responsibility, the impact of the incident and the levers of national power at a state's disposal.
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