Tag: assume breach
Anything we put online must swim in a sea of enemies. The F5 Labs report, Lessons Learned from a Decade of Data Breaches, revealed that an average breach leaked 35 million records. Nearly 90% of the US population’s social security numbers have been breached to cyber criminals. When confronted by staggering statistics like these, it is…
Read MoreAccept that breaches are inevitable in today’s world, then take these steps to reduce the chances of a large-scale, headline-making compromise. Source link lol
Read MoreThankfully, this alert was a mistake and there was no real danger, but the incident raises a far broader question: how many of our critical systems are this vulnerable to human error, poor software design, and insufficient security controls, all of which were factors in the HIEMA incident? Many of the real-world systems we depend…
Read MoreSay you’ve got a hundred attacks coming into your organization at a given moment. Control Number One filters out 80% of threats to give us only 20 attacks to worry about. Not bad. And then Control Number Two whacks nearly a third of those. Now the total has dropped to 13. Not a great control,…
Read MoreThere’s no doubt your information is out there. And at a certain point, you have to assume it’ll be exposed. So now what? With everything that’s happened in cybersecurity over the past few years and in the wake of so many high profile breaches all over the world, it’s time for a shift in mindset.…
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