What Israel’s cybersecurity landscape foreshadows for 2018

In recent years, global-scale cyber-attacks have become more frequent and hackers continue to discover new attack vectors in existing and evolving domains, forcing cybersecurity vendors to constantly reinvent solutions in this cat-and-mouse game. At the same time, the “traditional” enterprise network is expanding and becoming increasingly complex, undefined and diffuse, as the enterprise perimeter moves into the cloud. 
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The web *seems* scarier than ever. Is it?

@jordanr1000 explains #QuickTake http://www.bloomberg.com/view/quicktake/internet-security via @undefined. State-sponsored cyberwarriors are infiltrating nuclear power plants and blackmailingmultinational companies. Hacking gangs are breaking in to ATMs. Safety advocates arehijacking cars wirelessly — taking control of steering and brakes from drivers — as a warning about onboard vulnerabilities. Has the Internet ever seemed scarier? Maybe not, but wait. Yes, elite professionals are finding ingenious ways to gain entry to government, industrial and financial networks. Cybersecurity lapses have left some companies shockingly exposed. Still, when it comes to everyday security — of bank accounts and credit cards — the good guys actually have the upper hand.[...]

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How We Can Turn the Tide on Cyber Security in 2016

By any measurement, 2015 was another bad year for the world in terms of cyber security.

Despite record spending of more than $75 billion USD, losses were still estimated to be around $400 billion, with some firms predicting losses will grow to over $2 trillion by the end of 2020.

But 2016 doesn’t have to be another losing year for cyber security professionals, and there is a way forward to stem the rising global financial losses from organized cybercrime and nation-state actors.[...]

Top 8 Cyber Security Tips for Christmas Online Shopping

As the most wonderful time of the year has come - Christmas, it has brought with itself the time of online shopping. According to National Retail Federation, more than 151 million people shopped in store, but more than 100 Million shopped online [...]

USB Defense: Stop Data Walking Out The Door

The bad news is that internal data breaches are on the rise. And one of the biggest culprits? USB devices. In the past few years, there has been many organizations tracking down the loss of sensitive/confidential information due to the usage of USB drives and other mass storage media. Cyber-security [...]