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The number of Mirai scanner systems across the world decreased slightly from December 2017 to June 2018. There is less concentration of scanner systems in North America, South America, and Asia in June 2018 versus December 2017. Europe is the only region where Mirai scanner infections remained relatively the same from December 2017 to June…
Read MoreIoT attacks, budget shortfalls, and the skills gap are among the problems keeping security pros up at night. The world of cybersecurity gets more intriguing every year. In 2017, security professionals saw their share of attacks, but the increasing sophistication of the skirmishes is notable — with almost machine-like weaponization of code on the attackers’…
Read MoreIn my year-long research project, the F5 Labs’ 2018 Application Protection Report, I asked if security professionals used storage encryption for data and applications. About 19% of survey respondents said they didn’t do any while 39% said they used encryption most of the time and 42% said they used it some of the time. What…
Read MoreStep 3: Investigate the State of IoT Usage within Your Organization Never believe what you’ve been told or your own assumptions. You need to find out for yourself what IoT devices are already in use within your environment. It’s dangerously naïve to assume there aren’t any in place already. Just like standard IT security risk…
Read MoreWe who live risk management know there are four responses when confronted with a credible risk to our organizations. We can treat the risk to reduce it. We can avoid the risk by altering our organization’s behavior. We can transfer the risk with insurance or outsourcing, though the transfer is rarely complete. Lastly, we can…
Read MoreIntroduction No CISO is an island. Of all the executive roles in a mature organization, the CISO is one of the most dependent on the collaboration and integration of disparate resources and people. The CISO is responsible not for a specific, discrete segment of a business model but for managing an abstract principle with shifting…
Read More“Quantity has a quality all its own”—a quote apocryphally attributed to Joseph Stalin. As part of the research that went into F5 Labs’ 2018 Application Protection Report, we surveyed information security professionals. We found that 37% of respondents were from organizations with more than 5,000 people. Here’s how the percentages broke down: What is the…
Read MoreThose of us at a certain age (ahem) grew up in a simpler time. Email was largely unheard of. There was no social media, no Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. There was no e-commerce, no Amazon, Alibaba or Taobao. No online banking. No online dating. Credit card transactions were processed manually. Local businesses accepted personal checks.…
Read MoreAt F5, we dedicate a lot of time to identifying and validating vulnerabilities. We use a variety of vulnerability scanning tools at a regular, frequent tempo to give us an up-to-date picture of our risk footprint. On top of that, we pay attention to user reporting, information we get from various threat intelligence sources, and…
Read MoreLearn from CISOs who describe how they would “do it over” again in some of their early security program deployments. Source link lol
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