This year's Black Hat Europe conference in London features dozens of briefings touching on a wide variety of topics, including exploiting contactless payment and Bluetooth vulnerabilities, identifying vulnerable OEM IoT devices at scale and running false-flag cyberattacks.
While there is little doubt that cybersecurity audits provide an additional layer of assurance, security practitioners often question their effectiveness. So, what are the ways to ensure the relevance of these audits?
The cross-functional groups across enterprises need to be held equally accountable for cybersecurity, viewing security is a business enabler. That was the consensus of a CISO, CTO and a CIO who participated in a panel discussion at ISMG's recent Cybersecurity Summit in Mumbai.
Digitization across sectors has led to data proliferation, and organizations are struggling to handle the sheer volume of data. The abundance of valuable information has captured the attention of subversive elements, while cybercriminals have breached networks and compromised billions of records, not only causing...
To meet India's ambitious goal of growing the cybersecurity market as much as $35 billion and creating 1 million new jobs by 2025, academia need to play a critical role. Various stream of dimensions and disruptive technologies such as IoT, 5G, blockchain and issues around privacy has a huge impact on information...
Creating effective strategies for securing digital India's assets is challenging. For example, the growth of the cashless economy and increase in digital transactions have made consumers' data more vulnerable to cyberattacks, creating a more urgent need to protect digital assets.
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According to the 2019 Cyberthreat Defense Report, nearly eight out of 10 organizations were victims of at least one successful cyberattack in 2018.
While corporate strategies around digital transformation are driving measurable business outcomes, they are - at the same time - creating new security risks through the...
The modern digital economy is built on a foundation of trust, which is becoming increasingly more fragile and vulnerable to risks that we are just starting to understand. Digital technologies are a force for progress. Yet, they are also a source of distrust in the very technology that is intended to drive that...
The Zero Trust model of information security has become a fixture in both the strategies of enterprise security teams and the roadmaps of security solution developers and for good reason. Perimeter-focused security architectures that default to high trust levels on the internal network continue to fail disastrously...
Security operations centers must scale up to better detect cyberthreats early. New research on "breakout time" reveals strategies on how you can use the 1-10-60 Rule to benchmark your organization in responding to adversary's activities before it results in a full-blown breach.
What is breakout time? It's the time it...
Nation-state attacks often have close links to the military intelligence or state control apparatus with a high degree of technical expertise. India is fighting off an array of disruptive attacks that include advanced malware, sophisticated distributed denial-of-service attacks and nation-state actors targeting DNS...
How can banks leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to drive innovation while ensuring that the project is secure and would not make the data vulnerable? How important is it to take a structured approach in implementing "security by design" for conducting proper risk assessments of the organizations...
Complying with regulations and standards, including GDPR, PCI DSS, the RBI Gopala Krishna Committee report and the UIDAI's Aadhaar biometric, has increased the need for stringent data protection measures. India's upcoming data privacy bill will further mandate all organizations to safeguard sensitive data.
Many...
About 50 banks in India have cyber insurance policies to cover breach response costs, risk mitigation services, notification, forensic services, public relations, crisis management and any customer loss which can be quantified, as well as third-party risk exposure and other specialty services, such as hiring an...
Digital transformation to the cloud has resulted in increased dependency on third-party vendors to manage security tasks. This means managing the security risks involved is becoming a bigger challenge. Many organizations still have a long way to go in strengthening governance when it comes to vendor management as they...
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