Mar 11, 2019 | Cybersecurity News
Cybercriminals Target SMBs While the overall number of incidents may be on the decline, ransomware continues to be the leading type of cyberattack experienced by small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). These attacks are getting more sophisticated and more expensive...
Feb 27, 2019 | Cybersecurity News, Featured
About 80% of workers admit to using SaaS applications at work, in many cases without IT approval. It was not so long ago that only large organizations needed to worry about the effects of Shadow IT, but today, as more and more SMBs are moving their data to the cloud,...
Feb 21, 2019 | Cerium News, Cybersecurity News
Traditional perimeter-based network defenses that assume all systems within a network can be trusted are becoming outdated. The increase in users, devices, and applications accessing the network from outside of the enterprise perimeter and zone of control is quickly...
Feb 13, 2019 | Cybersecurity News, Featured
Nemertes Research, a think-tank that specializes in analyzing and quantifying the business value of emerging technologies, recently developed a four-point scale that ranks an organization’s ability to detect, understand and contain cybersecurity breaches effectively....
Feb 12, 2019 | Cisco DNA, Cisco News, Cybersecurity News
Organizations around the globe are steadily increasing the use of strong encryption to keep their data confidential. Unfortunately, cybercriminals are also using the technology to mask their activities. At issue is the fact that encryption not only hides data from...
Feb 6, 2019 | Cisco Umbrella, Cybersecurity News, Featured
Failure to Implement Mandated DNSSEC Leaves Gaping Hole in Security Under the jurisdiction of Department of Homeland Security, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) leads our nation’s effort to defend critical infrastructure against the threats...
Jan 14, 2019 | Cisco AMP, Cisco News, Cybersecurity News, Featured
Cisco AMP Protects Your Network Before, During and After an Attack Most people think of a malware scan as something that happens at a predetermined time, or when files enter the network. For example, antimalware software is often set to run once a day on a particular...
Dec 18, 2018 | Cybersecurity News
Traditional password practices are broken. One recent study found that the average business user has nearly 200 unique passwords — a number that strains the limits of human memory and encourages a range of risky password practices. That’s why organizations should...
Dec 14, 2018 | Cisco AMP, Cisco News, Cybersecurity News, Featured
Signature-based endpoint protection is used to detect threats that have been previously identified as malicious. Algorithms can quickly scan an object and identify its signature. If that signature matches one of the hundreds of millions of blacklisted signatures,...
Dec 10, 2018 | Cybersecurity News, Featured
Taking a look back at the Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends of 2018. Experts are projecting cybercrime will cost the global economy as much as $600 billion in 2018. They estimate the average cost of a data breach this year will exceed the $5 million mark. They also believe...
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