There was a time when governments and their agencies were at the forefront of cyber-security initiatives. However, the number of high profile data breaches throughout 2015 and 2016 indicate they have picked up some bad cost-cutting or corner cutting habits. Similarly, the...
In recognition of the emerging quantum threat, government and industry experts across the globe are advising organisations of all types to invest in quantum-safe encryption solutions. As we approach the dawn of the quantum era, network data security needs to stay one step ahead...
Set to become law in May 2018, one of the major talking points of the legislation has been the hefty financial penalties proposed as a result of non-compliance. Organisations suffering a data breach can expect to be fined up to 4% of their annual turnover or €20 million,...
As if security-aware organisations needed another reminder that data network security is only as strong as its weakest link. PC World reveals yet another extraordinary story about vulnerable network devices – 840,681 of them to be exact. These stories are becoming commonplace...
It may be surprising to know how much hackers and cyber-criminals learn from data networks’ traffic. This is done through a process referred to as ‘traffic flow analysis’. While once underestimated, traffic flow analysis is now gaining attention beyond the government and...
Last year was another big year for data breaches, and not in a good way. Gemalto’s breach level index is an online record of data breach incidents and reveals over 3.7 billion records have been lost since 2013.
There may be no more important data security topic today than law enforcement’s persistent calls to weaken ‘unbreakable’ encryption (the FBI’s term for high-assurance encryption) by forcing vendors to add backdoors to their security products.
Within a commercial setting, it is the analysis of large volumes of metadata, and the insights that can be gleaned from this analysis, that is likely to be of greater concern. Ducklin does a good job here of illustrating the risks and the types of insights that can be extracted...