Every once in a while, an industry term will get overused by marketing to the point of becoming a cliche. “Zero Trust” may have reached this threshold. In some ways, we understand why this is happening. Security perimeters have become obsolete as people use mobile devices and cloud applications to Continue Reading
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Navigating Vendor Risk Management as IT Professionals – Tempemail
One of the great resources available to businesses today is the large ecosystem of value-added services and solutions. Especially in technology solutions, there is no end to the services of which organizations can avail themselves. In addition, if a business needs a particular solution or service they don’t handle in-house, Continue Reading
ID for social media accounts will only put the most vulnerable at risk- Tempemail
The racist abuse suffered by England’s Black footballers has once again posed questions about how to tackle the problem. Everyone seems to have a solution. Most are poorly thought-out, and likely to do more harm than good. More than 600,000 of us have thrown our weight behind a petition launched Continue Reading
Security Awareness Training is Broken. Human Risk Management (HRM) is the Fix – Tempemail
Humans are an organization’s strongest defence against evolving cyber threats, but security awareness training alone often isn’t enough to transform user behaviour. In this guide, usecure looks at why Human Risk Management (HRM) is the new fix for building a security-savvy workforce. Don’t be fooled… Businesses are investing more than Continue Reading
Reduce Business Risk By Fixing 3 Critical Endpoint-to-Cloud Security Requirements – Tempemail
Enterprise applications used to live securely in data centers and office employees connected to internal networks using company-managed laptops or desktops. And data was encircled by a walled perimeter to keep everything safe. All that changed in the last 18 months. Businesses and employees had to adapt quickly to cloud Continue Reading
Advocates say kids’ Instagram product would ‘put young users at great risk’ | Instagram- Tempemail
An international coalition of children’s health advocates has called on Facebook to abandon its plans to build an Instagram product for kids, citing harm to teens from excessive use of social media. The campaign comes after Buzzfeed broke the news in March that Facebook seeks to build an Instagram product Continue Reading
Universities need to wise up – or risk being consigned to history | Universities
The thing about pandemics, observed the historian Yuval Noah Harari, is that they tend to accelerate history. A couple of years ago, appalled by the environmental, financial and working-time costs of running research conferences, I wondered aloud how long it would take for many of these events to be conducted Continue Reading
Quantifying Risk: How do you measure success in security?- Tempemail
Every quarter, a CISO has to stand up in front of their leadership and attempt to put a price on something that didn’t happen. When your job is all about avoiding costly incidents and mistakes, it’s hard to put a dollar value on your work, and even harder to justify Continue Reading
Encrypted messaging putting children at risk of abuse, says watchdog | Child protection
The children’s commissioner for England has warned that end-to-end encryption is putting children at risk of abuse, as a survey finds that most eight-year-olds are using messaging apps supposedly restricted to those aged 13 or older. In a report published on Tuesday, Anne Longfield said plans by social media firms Continue Reading
Several Unpatched Popular Android Apps Put Millions of Users at Risk of Hacking – Tempemail
A number of high-profile Android apps are still using an unpatched version of Google’s widely-used app update library, potentially putting the personal data of hundreds of millions of smartphone users at risk of hacking. Many popular apps, including Grindr, Bumble, OkCupid, Cisco Teams, Moovit, Yango Pro, Microsoft Edge, Xrecorder, and Continue Reading