This is a threat advisory for Thomas Cook Ltd. Mobile Apps & Website

This short article discusses why a marriage between WAF and DDoS is a good idea.

GAO was asked to report on the major breach that occurred at Equifax in 2017. This report (1) summarizes the events regarding the breach and the steps taken by Equifax to assess, respond to, and recover from the incident and (2) describes actions by federal agencies to respond to the breach.

This report provides an exclusive look at a very particular Trojan that has appeared out of Japan.

This report offers a guide to understanding the importance of email archiving.

The 10th annual CyberArk Global Advanced Threat Landscape Survey 2016, themed “Cyber Security: Past, Present & Future,” examines whether global enterprises are learning and applying lessons as a result of years of highly publicized cyber attacks, and how security priorities and decision making are being impacted.

Ixia recently commissioned Dimensional Research to conduct a survey of cloud users to understand their top concerns about managing cloud operations. This report provides details about their findings.

This whitepaper looks at the evolution of mobile phishing - examining why and how people get phished. It explores the prevalence and severity of enterprise phishing techniques, providing actionable advice for how best to protect your mobile device fleet.

This paper provides a clearly articulated look at the GDPR.

This is an overview of the Swearing Trojan infecting mobile banking.

This is a useful article that takes a look at the financial numbers of paying for a defensive strategy vs. paying for a breach. Perfect for accountants, and those who need to understand data from a purely financial side.

This white paper looks at some insights into the journey of reaching compliance with the GDPR and its May 2018 deadline. It seeks to share best practice guidelines for all businesses that have clients in Europe.

The 2016 Thought Leadership programme convened by Corsham Institute, in conjunction with RAND Europe and St George’s House, examined a number of crucial dimensions of our connected society. The programme facilitated the gathering of a diverse set of experts and influential leaders from various sectors to discuss challenges and opportunities, share experiences, and build a network. To give a brief glimpse of these discussions, we have produced this Key Findings report to provide participants, stakeholders and interested parties with a strong sense of both the subjects covered during our deliberations, as well as some of the issues, which still need to be tackled going forward.

This is a threat advisory for The Fork

This paper takes a look at the cities of the west, and the cyber threats that occurred there.

Readers are encouraged to use this report to get a better understanding of the current threat landscape, including trends specific to different contexts like region, time of day, industry, and more, in order to better fine-tune defenses for meeting the security needs of their unique environments.

This is a helpful infographic that reveals threat predictions for 2018.

This paper discusses how a portable and persistent data protection model can enable your business.

From the report, “The Appthority Mobile Threat Team analyzed iOS apps in enterprise environments and found over 24,000 unique apps that access various types of user data, such as the calendar, bluetooth and photos, for advertising. These twenty-four thousand apps are just those that are up front with the user about requesting permission to access data for advertising purposes. Over 70% of enterprise environments contain these apps.”

From the report, “Whether accidental or malicious, insider threat incidents can result in financial fraud, privacy abuses, intellectual property theft, or damage to infrastructure. it’s difficult for security pros to detect this suspicious activity because insiders need to have privileged access to data in order to do their jobs. Since insiders are people and, therefore, entitled to privacy and due process, security pros must handle these incidents with greater care than external threats. this report describes how to build an insider threat program.”

The biggest takeaway from this report is that, for IT teams tasked with managing cybersecurity for financial networks is that the job is never done. Malicious actors will always be coming out of the woodwork, employing new and sometimes unexpected tactics to access funds and PII. IT teams therefore have to not only be vigilant, but keep the big picture in mind when mapping out their constantly- evolving network defenses by planning for tomorrow’s threats today.