Kevin Townsend

New Intelligence Academy Aims to Help Organizations Reduce Risk by Better Understanding Threats and Prioritizing Response

U.S. Army's NETCOM to Deploy Continuous Biometric Authentication Software to Protect Warfighters

Gartner has predicted that worldwide information security spending will reach $86.4 billion in 2017; a seven percent growth over the year. Spending is expected...

Researchers Say Cerber Ransomware Now Has a Feature to Avoid Triggering "Canary Files"

A password recovery firm has claimed that the overall security of password managers is debatable. "Are password managers more secure than keeping a list...

Microsoft Agrees to Kaspersky Lab's Demands Microsoft and Kaspersky are friends again, and the whole anti-virus ecosystem is at peace. 

Hackers Say Humans Are the Weakpoint and That Traditional Defenses Cannot Protect Them

Insufficient staffing levels and quality, together with poor orchestration between too many security point products mean that complete breach intolerance is an aspiration not...

NIST Proposes Ways for Organizations to Improve How to Identify, Recruit, Develop, and Retain Cybersecurity Talent

The UK government has announced its plans for a new Data Protection Bill. This was foreshadowed in the Queen's Speech of 21 June when...

On July 31, 2017, a hacker claimed to have been deep inside Mandiant's infrastructure.

Webroot commissioned Wakefield Research to query 600 SMB IT decision makers in the US, UK and Australia to discover current attitudes towards IT security...

CylancePROTECT Home Edition Will Allow Businesses to Offer Protection to Employee-Owned Devices at Home

After years of warnings from security experts and researchers, the Internet of Things (IoT) remains fundamentally insecure. Now a group of senators has introduced...

The Amazon Echo is an always-listening device designed to play music, answer questions via the Alexa voice service, and control connected home devices such...

A hacker or group of hackers claimed today to have breached FireEye's Mandiant. In a Pastebin post, they claimed, "It was fun to be...

Over the last few years, business email compromise (BEC) scams have rocketed -- costing victims $1.45 billion in 2016 alone (FBI report). Now a...

Seven hundred IT and security professionals were surveyed by McAfee to understand the current state and future development of threat hunting -- the active...

For years, Security has sought the ear of the Board and claimed it was not offered. Today the Board is listening; but all too...