Another year comes to an end and it’s time once again to assess your IT security. Unfortunately for the CISO, while the rest of the IT team is already dreaming of a white Christmas and pretending to be productive, you need to look back and see if there are any serious reflections that need to […]
Read MoreHow Businesses Can Counter Cyber Threats During the Holiday Season
The holiday cheers extends to everyone including criminal hackers. It’s the season when people are busy swiping their credit cards and/or going online shopping, perfect for opportunistic attacks on unsuspecting consumers and weak IT security systems. The tech world was recently abuzz when UK researchers revealed in their study that it only takes six seconds […]
Read More5 Ways to Manage New Threats in Today’s Cybersecurity Landscape
As technology evolves, so do the security threats that continue to hound IT networks. New vulnerabilities and sophisticated methods are regularly being discovered by experts and IT support teams, many of which are likely being exploited by cyber criminals as soon as they are found. This is because they have better tools, knowledge and expertise […]
Read MoreHow to Defend Your Business from Insider Threat
Insider threats are like tumors in a person’s body. They can grow and spread undetected until one day, you finally discover the irreversible truth. Fortunately for stakeholders, insider threat does not involve uncontrollable factors and can be prevented before they form. Follow these tips and keep your network services safe.
Read MoreHow Criminal Hackers Make Money from Your Data
Every day, businesses handle massive amounts of customer data—so huge that it makes disaster recovery quite challenging for many companies. On the other hand, cyber hackers capitalize on such data to conduct illegal activities. Surely, data is a very powerful instigator of fraud. Data breaches are commonly perpetrated by criminal groups to make financial gains. […]
Read MoreDropbox Data Breach: When Human Error Trumps IT Security
Cybercrime has been making headlines these days, and the most recent of which is the data breach reported on millions of Dropbox accounts. Given the circumstances, companies are reminded again to beef up their IT support to pave the way for better network control and prevent customer data from being compromised. The Threatening Combination […]
Read MoreThe State of Cybersecurity in the Philippines
The Philippines’ Comelec data breach and its involvement in the Bangladesh heist highlight two important points: the government’s cybersecurity is predictably poor and criminal hackers have become so sophisticated that they can slip and steal cold hard cash across borders. Now that we have knowledge on how disappointing government services can be, it’s now more important […]
Read MoreOld School IT Security Tactics When an Antivirus Program is not Enough
One of the biggest issues of most companies today is information security. With news of cyber attacks from large corporations such as Sony, Home Depot, and Primera Blue Cross, companies have to take a step further when it comes to cyber security and disaster recovery. Traditional Anti-Virus Are No Longer Enough Most enterprises […]
Read MoreAuthentication in the Age of Information Insecurity
Authentication, as defined by Wikipedia, is the process of confirming the truth of an attribute of a single piece of data as claimed. In our daily routine, we use authentication even in small ways. The act of putting a key into a lock is a simple form of authentication. By using our ATM cards to […]
Read MoreThe Promise and Peril with Enterprise Cloud Services
In the 1950s, the mainframe was so big and expensive that organizations could not afford to purchase it. In fact only a few can put up their own mainframe systems for their use. In response, the “time sharing” method was developed, finally enabling multiple users to access data and CPU. This was known as the […]
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