"No risk, no business." As global CISO of Egyptian Arab Land Bank, Mohamed Mostafa says he regularly applies that maxim, which he learned from a prior boss, as he seeks to maximize his organization's security posture while working closely to collaborate with every line of business.
The U.K.-based insurance firm One Call says it has successfully restored its systems in a new environment that is separate from the one that was impacted by a ransomware attack May 13, adding that a ransomware note which purported to be from DarkSide could not be verified as authentic.
Drawing on her experience selling cybersecurity products and services, Nastassja Finnegan now sits in the hot seat, as CSO of South Africa's First National Bank. Succeeding in either role, she says, requires interfacing with users, understanding their needs and helping them to do the right thing.
Scammers are increasingly using Windows Push Notifications to impersonate legitimate alerts as a first step toward installing malicious Windows applications to harvest user and system information, according to a global report by McAfee.
As director of security for a telecom company, Ian Keller works to ensure customers have the latest knowledge and intelligence required to deploy the company's products in a secure and compliant manner.
Microsoft is warning about a spam campaign that uses an updated variant of Java-based StrRAT malware that steals confidential data while disguising itself as a ransomware infection even though it does not actually encrypt data.
Khwaja Mohammad Ali of the Federal Bank of Pakistan explains why cyberattack prevention requires collaboration between tech teams and senior management.
Ransomware attacks are stuck on repeat: Criminal syndicates have found an extremely profitable business model, and they're milking it for all it's worth. So give the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, credit for having in place robust disaster recovery capabilities and vowing to remediate, rather than pay criminals.
An unidentified nation-state hacking group targeted several Russian federal agencies as part of a cyberespionage campaign that compromised the country’s federal networks to steal sensitive data, according to a report from Russian security firm Rostelecom-Solar.
Air India says millions of its customers were affected by a February data breach at SITA, a third-party data processing service based in Switzerland that serves many airlines.
Four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss tactics for improving hiring practices and increasing workforce diversity as well as achieving sustainable resiliency.
It's not just traditional data governance – it's about business risk. And in the age of GDPR and CCPA, you’d best have a handle on data discovery and classification. Patrick Benoit of CBRE gives the BISO's perspective on data risk governance.
5G technology reminds us that, globally, our sensitive data is open to attack. Janine Darling, founder and CEO of STASH Secure Data, is committed to resolving that vulnerability challenge.
You can see it in the latest high-profile attacks: Security requirements are ever more complex, exceeding the capacity of current protection capabilities. Enterprises need a new strategy for defending entry points, and Tom Sego of BlastWave believes he has it.
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