Are you sick of the marketing hype suggesting some “Next Gen” security device can solve all your security problems? Yes? Good. If not, maybe you should be. Let’s pick on the Redmond giant for a moment to illustrate an example. Microsoft announced last month that after a legal victory, it had taken down 99 websites
Enhanced Ransomware Protection
Although the industry acknowledges a decline in the number of ransomware attacks in 2018, this news isn’t anything to get excited about. The trend has moved from targeting individuals via mass email campaigns to companies by way of manual attacks. Perhaps the reason for this is security awareness programs have been effective, and end users
Crime Does Pay
Well, at least cybercrime does. In fact, it turns out that it pays well. Bromium published a report in 2018 in which it asserted: “High-earning cyber criminals can make $166,000+ per month; Middle-earners can make $75,000+ per month; Low-earners can make $3,500+ per month.” That is serious money for the high and middle earners. For
Navigating an Unchartered Territory of Cybersecurity.
It was by pure chance that I attended a security symposium at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) several years ago. I don’t know exactly what attracted me to this particular meeting of crypto minds, but it was a very fateful day in my knowledge and understanding of Cybersecurity. Among many of the