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 More13 Dumb Ways to Get Hacked
The Annual Password List clearly tells us that while hacking has become a normal everyday threat, people make the same mistakes. True, it’s businesses and celebrities who have the more valuable assets than your average Joe. However, we’ve clearly seen from recent data breach cases that criminal hackers can make money from selling or trading user […]
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 Sequence of a Targeted Cyber Attack
How do cyber attacks happen exactly? According to a recent report, criminal hackers don’t need to rely on malware. They can act like a normal network admin, lurk around a compromised network, and steal your data. Originally it was believed that malware is the weapon of choice by criminal hackers in wreaking havoc on […]
Read More6 Hacking Lessons That Businesses Can Learn from Mr. Robot
Mr. Robot is a drama-thriller television series about Elliot Anderson, a security engineer by day, and a hacker at night. He suffers from social anxiety disorder and clinical depression, only able to connect with people by hacking their personal lives. Eventually his talents capture the attention of a hacktivist group called fsociety. Pulled in by their […]
Read MoreWhat Every CEO Needs to Know about Fault Tolerance
There are several server and big iron keywords which have been lumped together simply because they sound alike. These include “high availability,” “mission critical,” and “fault tolerance.” An IT solutions company in the Philippines explains that fault tolerance, which basically means that vital systems still continue to function even after some of its other components […]
Read MoreAnatomy of a Data Breach: The Business Guide to an Internal Attack
Strong IT systems and disaster recovery plans can’t stop a disgruntled or ill-intentioned employee, especially when they already know how to navigate your systems. It’s important for businesses to protect their systems from both external and internal attacks, especially when they already have the resources.
Read MoreHow to Build a Multi-Layered Security for Your IT Infrastructure
Any IT infrastructure requires a systematic implementation of security measures to avoid occurrences of possible threats. To ensure the protection of your IT infrastructure, a security assessment is necessary, as this aid in recognizing and isolating security-related dangers by going beyond the gaps in the defense, along with exploring the most critical business assets. Isolation, […]
Read MoreSpooky IT Security Threats of 2015
Nothing can be more horrifying than finding out that hackers have intercepted you and your clients. There had been reports on vulnerabilities on several systems that involve iOS, Windows, software applications, Androids, and routers in the past few months. The idea of the hands of a stranger creeping into your confidential files can be terrifying, […]
Read MoreTalent or Technology: The Best Solution Against Security Breach
The World Wide Web has come a long way from its inception in the 1980s. As technological innovations transformed this web-like system at CERN to what we know now as the Internet, it shaped how the world is run and influenced how people lived. Sadly, as human nature dictates, not all of this is for […]
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