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A new study released by Cisco says commercial enterprises need to implement new tools in order to reduce the time spent on detecting cyber attacks and other network vulnerabilities. Cisco said Tuesday its 2015 Midyear Security Report cited the Angler Exploit Kit and Adobe Flash Player as some of the common threats to corporate networks. According […] More
A TechNavio report released by ReportBuyer predicts that the global enterprise cybersecurity market will achieve a compound annual growth rate of 11.84 percent over a five-year period from 2015 to 2019. ReportBuyer said Monday the growth is due to the increase of cyber attacks resulting from higher Internet penetration and use of mobile devices and applications at […] More
Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, has observed espionage methods being used in cyberspace are somewhat similar to tactics that spies use in the physical world, Defense Systems reported Thursday. He told Defense Systems in an interview that many hacking groups target the private sector and he believes the U.S. should […] More
A Black Hat survey of information technology security professionals found that IT spending priorities and security tasks at enterprises do not match or keep pace with current threats in the cybersecurity environment, GCN reported Thursday. Mark Pomerleau writes that the 2015 Black Hat Conference attendee survey indicates that the disconnect is due to existing application flaws […] More
John Zarour, director of state and local government and K-12 at Splunk, wrote in a piece published Wednesday on GCN that agencies should re-evaluate their approach to cybersecurity and invest in modern tools to avoid a breach. Zarour said he believes state and local agencies can also be targets of an attack like the U.S. […] More
A survey report by Intel‘s security business and the Aspen Institute points to a rising demand for public-private partnerships on threat intelligence sharing among information technology decision-makers for critical infrastructure organizations. An article published Tuesday on Cyber Security Dojo reports that 86 percent of the 625 respondents in the multicountry survey call for increased cyber cooperation […] More
A new MarketsandMarkets report predicts that the global threat intelligence security market will climb in value at a compound annual growth rate of 14.3 percent from $3 billion in 2015 to $5.9 billion in 2020. The market research firm said Wednesday the projected growth is due to the increasing number of cyber attacks and the corresponding […] More
The U.S. Army is looking for technical tools from industry as part of efforts to develop a Fort Gordon, Georgia-based cyber laboratory, FCW reported Tuesday. Sean Lyngaas writes the Army’s cyber battle lab is meant to accommodate experimentation with a new warfare domain. The lab is scheduled to begin operation in October, according to the […] More
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Johns Hopkins University a five-year, $2.2 million grant to educate graduate students about methods to identify and guard information technology systems against cyber threats. JHU’s Information Security Institute will use the money for cybersecurity training of up to four students every year through the university’s master of science […] More
A new MarketsandMarkets analysis projects the global market for threat intelligence to experience a compound annual growth rate of 14.3 percent through 2020 due to increasing incidents of cyber attacks. Threat monitoring, training, consulting and security intelligence systems and services will reach a market value of $5.9 billion over the next five years as commercial firms increase spending […] More
Veris Group Chief Strategist Dave McClure and Shared Services Leadership Coalition CEO John Marshall have recommended the federal government adopt shared services for its transactional platforms to secure legacy and scattered systems. McClure and Marshall wrote in a guest piece published Monday for Federal News Radio that shared services could help concentrate the government’s limited cyber resources. They added that culture […] More
The FBI has started its work to respond to a recent data breach on Italy-based surveillance company Hacking Team in collaboration with Rook Security. Rook Security has begun to supply intelligence to the FBI Indianapolis Cyber Task Force on the leaked company files as found in its research, Rook Security said Friday. “This breach has been very […] More
