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IDG Contributor Network: Protecting data: when confidence is overconfidence

07

Sep

2017

American author, engineer and billiards Hall of Famer, Robert Byrne, once noted “confidence is overconfidence.” According to the recently released annual Data Security Confidence Index (DSCI), many businesses today are guilty of this flawed mindset; feeling overconfident about keeping hackers at bay, while at the same time failing to keep data safe. According to the […]

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Researchers Devise Hopeful Defense Against Credential Spear Phishing Attacks

05

Sep

2017

A new research paper, ‘Detecting Credential Spearphishing Attacks in Enterprise Settings’, was awarded the Facebook Internet Defense Prize at the 26th USENIX Security Symposium in Vancouver, BC, August 16-18, 2017. The paper proposes and evaluates a methodology for effectively detecting credential spear phishing attacks in corporate networks while achieving a very low number of false […]

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Edith Wharton, Identity Theft, and the GDPR

05

Sep

2017

During one of my talks for Garter, I asked the audience, “How many of you have ever had anything stolen?” Many hands went up. Then I asked, “How did you know it was stolen?” The answers generally offered, “I looked for it, and it wasn’t there.” Data theft, and in particular identity theft, is different. […]

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