This article presents actionable risk management recommendations for organizations facing the intersection of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and insider risks. IoT devices that are wittingly or unwittingly brought into your organization’s physical spaces pose a threat because they could be engineered to exfiltrate sensitive data. For example, last month we heard that hackers had […]
Last week’s ransomware attack on the City of Atlanta’s networks reminds us that ransomware can result in downtime and lost productivity. Ransomware is a type of malware deployed by threat actors to prevent or limit users from accessing their system or networks until a ransom is paid. Nearly 10 days after the attack, some municipal […]
Your organization is at risk every day from outsiders seeking to acquire your sensitive and proprietary information for their own gain, whether political or financial, therefore it is critical that your insider threat plan include a strategic approach to managing this risk. The case of Su Bin pleading guilty for selling F-35 secrets to China […]
A lot of noise exists across the cyber security industry today about insider threat risk, including how to define insider threats, how to evaluate the best solutions currently available, and how to balance employee privacy issues. No matter what your organization’s critical assets are or what industry you operate in, you can easily become distracted […]
Marty Meehan Editor’s note: in this post, Cognitio’s Marty Meehan provides context on an economical, scalable and highly secure defense in depth solution leveraging PKWARE’s Smartcrypt and QuintessenceLabs. – bg The stakes get higher every day. External security threats grow more sophisticated and unpredictable. Internal controls become more complicated and challenging to implement. When data […]