Kevin Townsend

Data center and cloud segmentation firm Illumio announced today that it has raised a further $125 million in a Series D funding round. This...

Organizations Are Still Failing to Upgrade Systems and Enforce Patches, Study Finds

Last week, Russian president Vladimir Putin apparently conceded that patriotic Russian hackers may have been involved in the DNC hacks last year. "If they...

Change Two to the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM 2) came into force at the end of May 2017. One of the...

CyberWar Games Highlight the Increasing Danger from and to an Interconnected World"The next significant cyber attack will likely involve targeting the connected ecosystem of...

As of June 10 2017, users of the Social Security Administration (SSA) website will be required to use two-factor (2FA) authentication to gain access....

Cybersecurity is a form of asymmetric warfare. The attackers need to only succeed once; the defenders must succeed constantly. The attackers share weapons and...

Following what is now widespread practice among private industry tech giants, a new bill proposes to force the DHS to introduce its own public-sector...

The recent WannaCry outbreak is still a mystery. We know what (ransomware), and how (a Windows vulnerability on unsupported or unpatched systems); but we don't know...

Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) has released an updated version (PDF) of his draft Active Cyber Defense Certainty (ACDC) Act, incorporating feedback from the business...

GDPR Roundup: New Products, Surveys and Industry Commentary

The European General Data Protection Regulation will take effect in exactly one year from today. It will affect any company that does business with...

A new research report takes an unusual angle. Rather than analyzing a threat or an attacker, it looks at the psychology of the user...

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is the security industry's response to failings in the simple and traditional userID/password authentication approach. MFA is considered to be a...

In a cyber intrusion dubbed Operation Cobalt Kitty, the OceanLotus hacking group -- otherwise known as APT32 -- played cat-and-mouse with a security firm...

New Multi-factor Authentication Offering Seeks Balance Between Strong Security and Ease of Use

The balance between encouraging mobility for business purposes and controlling it for security remains as tricky today as ever. Ninety-three percent of organizations are...

Just as global intelligence firm Stratfor extracts and presents geopolitical intelligence from the noise of available information, so now does Flashpoint extract cyber business...

ImageMagick, an open source command line graphics file editor, has been retired by one of its major consumers: Yahoo. The product has been beset...

Financial services is perhaps the most regulated sector in industry. SEC, FINRA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley are merely the better known of a raft of regulations....