News
20 February 2017
BREAKING THROUGH THE CYBERSECURITY BUBBLE
For many in the cybersecurity space, the world revolves around the attack vector. Many security vendors narrowly focus on their version of the prevent, defend and respond paradigm—focusing on their purported supremacy and on making their case to get a...
14 February 2017
ARBY’S UNDER THE MICROSCOPE AFTER BREACH
Atlanta-based Arby’s Restaurant Group Inc. disclosed Feb. 9, 2017, that a data breach may have affected more than 355,000 consumer credit and debit cards. Payment Systems for Credit Unions, a trade association representing more than 800 credit unions, notified Arby’s...
07 February 2017
2017 HORIZONS: FROM DRONES TO SMART CITIES TO CYBER SECURITY AND MORE
As is tradition, SP&T News is once again cracking open the year ahead and shining the light on upcoming trends in the industry. This time we pegged a number of experts in the field to see which directions CCTV, drones...
04 February 2017
9 SECURITY STARTUPS WORTH WATCHING IN 2017
In today’s data intensive world, companies large and small are dealing with data in new ways. For example, millions of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices are transmitting tons of data every day. And the shift to deploying apps via...
23 January 2017
SLIDESHOW: ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THESE 4 TOP SECURITY THREATS?
(Bloomberg) — Acadian Asset Management, the Boston-based quantitative firm that manages $77 billion, struck a deal with Microsoft Corp. to use its Bing Predicts big data technology to inform its investment decisions. Acadian said it’s the first investment firm to...
13 January 2017
FRAUDSTERS’ NEW FRONTIER: THE DARK WEB
By Thomas Zadvydas Once the exclusive domain of credit card thieves and fraudsters, the “Deep Web” or the related “Dark Web” is attracting a slew of startups and their venture capital backers. A part of the Internet that is not...
10 January 2017
ADVANCED DETECTION BASED ON UNSUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING
Gilad Peleg started his career at the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) elite cyber security unit, at the center for cryptography and security. Later, he led product management and marketing for a number of large technology organizations, as well as several...
09 January 2017
EXPERTS SHARE THE TOP CYBERSECURITY TRENDS TO WATCH FOR IN 2017
Takeaway: Each and every year, new attacks leave behind a new normal in cybersecurity. So what will that look like in 2017? We asked experts to give us their predictions. Cybersecurity has been a key topic in IT for years...
05 January 2017
SECURITY CENTRAL: THE 2017 BIRD GETS THE RANSOMWORM, TRUMP’S 10-YEAR-OLD SON TO SAVE U.S. CYBERSECURITY?
So, remember ransomware? Holds your precious data hostage and won’t give it back unless you pay the cyber crooks who stole it in the first place, that whole deal? Well get ready – unfortunately, that was just the warmup. Security...
03 January 2017
DATA BREACHES THROUGH WEARABLES PUT TARGET SQUARELY ON IOT IN
Security needs to be baked into IoT devices for there to be any chance of halting a DDoS attack, according to security experts. Forrester predicts that more than 500,000 internet of things (IoT) devices will suffer a compromise in 2017,...