The adversaries are a highly collaborative group that shares and sells attack techniques every day. SecureWorks found that hacking a gmail account only costs $129, a corporate email account costs $500, a twitter account costs $129, and hacking wifi is a free tutorial on Youtube. In order to effectively figure out how to beat the…
Late last year it was an IoT powered DDOS attack, then it was the National Democratic Committee phishing attack, and now, it’s the WannaCry ransomware attack that is the breach du jour. Having infected countless organizations across 150 countries, the WannaCry attack spread like wildfire last Friday and once again demonstrated the importance of cybersecurity…
Intel’s David Houlding masterfully outlined the complexity of the cybersecurity threats that health and life sciences organizations face today. One doesn’t have to work hard to see the far-reaching impact this continues to have on the entire industry. The US Department of Health and Human Services provides an easy to summarize list of all breaches…
The trend of applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to the mission of cyber defense is one of the most promising activities in the cybersecurity community. The trend towards eliminating data stovepipes to allow analysts to work over all relevant security data is also a very positive movement. Both of those trends are apparent in…
Cybersecurity use cases on Apache Hadoop are becoming ever more popular, and I am very thrilled to see the strong line-up of speakers and topics for the Strata+Hadoop World San Jose’s inaugural run of the “Platform Security and Cybersecurity” track. For the uninitiated we’ll provide a quick overview of why Hadoop is such a great…