Each year, the Information Security Forum, a non-profit association that researches and analyzes security and risk management issues, releases its 'Threat Horizon' report to provide a forward-looking view of the biggest security threats over a two-year period. Here are the top 9 threats to watch for through 2017.
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While spending on cybersecurity expertise would seem to be a no-brainer, the large number of companies without formal inhouse expertise suggests another ongoing, underlying challenge in finding and securing those skills within the current competitive market.
By CSO staff | 22 Feb | Read more
Application vendors and security companies are steadily responding to the call for better information security, with a slew of new automated tools working to bolster security from the developer to the endpoint device.
David Braue | 18 Jan | Read more
A recent story in CSO highlights the disparity between “information security” (a.k.a. IT security) and “cybersecurity” — namely total spending and market growth.
Steve Morgan | 18 Dec | Read more
IDG Security Day united security experts around the world in a common effort to share experiences and best practices around information-security strategies. This led to a surfeit of security goodness at the Sydney event and elsewhere.
David Braue | 26 Jun | Read more
With Australia’s prime minister recently outlining details of nation-state cybersecurity breaches and the US president launching an aggressive push to review and upgrade his government’s information security, data security’s profile has never been higher. And as governments reposition themselves for an age of open cyberwarfare, businesses of all sizes must follow their lead by ensuring that enterprise applications, mobile, and cloud services are wrapped in a layer that can deter compromise and protect sensitive data throughout its lifecycle.
David Braue | 03 Feb | Read more
One of the great things about working for an organisation like Ramsay Health Care, is our brand promise; ‘people caring about people’ is something we live and breathe. Caring about our patients and staff means doing the right thing and protecting their privacy, be it in the clinical context or that of the digital world.
For years, information security experts have predicted a spike in mobile malware. Will 2013 be the year of mobile attacks? And what other security threats are on the horizon?
Thor Olavsrud | 09 Jan | Read more
If the economic downturn has proven anything, it's that many CISOs still struggle to articulate the value of their security programs and justify the security budget to business and executive management. Many helplessly watched their budgets slashed, their projects postponed, and their employees laid-off.
Khalid Kark | 11 Aug | Read more
In the first installment of Why Information Must Be Destroyed I discussed how not discarding worthless hard copy documents, even though they appear to have no value is a security risk. While this is true for physical hard copies, it is even more relevant for digitally stored data.
Ben Rothke | 07 May | Read more
This online survey, conducted amongst 275 respondents in December 2015 and January 2016, found growing concern among both business executives and security practitioners about the overall security profile they face.Indeed, fully 65 percent of respondents said they were more, or much more, concerned about information-security threats than they were a year ago. Just 31 percent of respondents said they were about as concerned this year as last – and not one of the respondents said they were less concerned.
