Varun Haran
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Analysis: Verizon's Latest Data Breach Investigation Report
Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report 2020 highlights the leading causes of breaches last year, including credential theft, phishing, ransomware as well as → Read More
Tips on Ransomware Defense Strategies
Healthcare institutions and non-profits are suffering badly from ransomware attacks, says Caleb Barlow, CEO of CynergisTek, who offers insights on shoring up → Read More
Behavioral Biometrics-Based Authentication: A Status Report
he quality of authentication provided by behavioral biometrics is improving, says James Stickland, CEO of Veridium. Nevertheless, he says, "we haven't reached → Read More
Actionable Threat Intel in the IoT Era
The advent of IoT devices and IT/operational technology integration have dramatically expanded the attack surface. And as a result, the definition of threat → Read More
The Impact of Digital Transformation on Security
Identifying the data gaps in the rapidly expanding attack surface is critical to allow more sophisticated preventative, detective response capabilities, says Kory → Read More
Leveraging Hidden DNS Information to Fight Threats
The information provided in a domain name system is far deeper than just those transactions that take place. A DNS provides much more granular information around → Read More
Why Insider Threats Are Still a Critical Problem
Insider threats continue to be difficult to detect, says Ashish Thapar of Verizon, who offers a summary of a new report on these threats.. BankInfoSecurity → Read More
Authenticating in the Age of IoT
With the advent of the internet of things, authentication needs to be far more scalable than it ever was in the past, says Phillip Dunkelberger, CEO, Nok Nok Labs. → Read More
How Web Application Firewalls Are Evolving
Web application firewalls usually have not been a part of the DevSecOps conversation, but that's changing, says Andrew Peterson of Signal Sciences. → Read More
Telemetry: Monitoring Applications in Hostile Environments
Getting a telemetry stream back from applications can help organizations to "adjust much more quickly to see how practical attacks are happening on the → Read More
Can Machine Learning Systems 'Overlearn'?
Machine learning systems adapt their behavior on the basis of a feedback loop, so they can overlearn and develop blind spots, which if not understood by → Read More
The Growing Importance of 'Security by Design'
“Security by design” is at an inflection point as a result of advances in automation, orchestration, artificial intelligence and machine learning, says Lee → Read More
The Role of AI, Machine Learning in Email Security
Machine learning models and artificial intelligence are transforming the way email is secured, says Adrien Gendre of Vade Secure.. bank information security → Read More
Improving Threat Detection With AI
How can enterprises couple automated processes with human intelligence to improve threat detection? Brian NeSmith of Arctic Wolf shares insights. → Read More
OT Security: Best Practices for CISOs
The lack of standardization is one of the significant challenges when securing OT environments. Customizing and aligning OT security with the business is key, says → Read More
Fighting Credential Stuffing Attacks
Credential abuse attacks and identity theft incidents are rising, with attackers leveraging botnets to launch coordinated campaigns with high success rates, says → Read More
Using Unsupervised Machine Learning: The Challenges
While unsupervised machine learning techniques get away from the data labeling and classification that most supervised systems require, they are dependent on the → Read More
How IAM is Evolving in the Blockchain Era
Identity and access management is not about compliance anymore - It's really about security, says Gartner's Felix Gaehtgens. With cloud, virtualization, DevOps and → Read More
Securing 'East-West' Traffic in the Cloud
Protecting "East-West" cloud traffic - the traffic between apps and virtual machines - is a significant challenge, but microsegmentation can help address → Read More
Network vs. Endpoint Security: Striking the Right Balance
With so much focus on endpoint security, it's important not to overlook the importance of network-level security controls, says Lawrence Orans, research vice → Read More