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BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) refers to employees using their own devices including phones, tablets, and laptops to connect to the office network and perform their official duties. BYOD is the preferred policy of many employers these days, for...
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If you think that schools and colleges don’t need any cyber security as they don’t store any data that will interest criminals, think again. In May 2015, Pennsylvania State University’s engineering school was the target of a cyber attack. The...
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As the cyber world is progressing , so are the threats around it. In the late 80’s and early 90’s, the threats were simple as compared to today’s standards. The viruses got transferred through infected floppies, but they were easy to detect and stop. Today,...
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The education sector, especially institutions of higher education, have been the focus of Information Security Professionals in recent times. It has been observed that the education sector ranks very high in the list of targets for cyber-attacks. Investigations have...
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Cyber security breaches in the healthcare industry are very costly. In the USA alone they cost over $6 billion a year. Almost 90% of the hospitals report having suffered a breach over the last two years. These violations result in about half a million...
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It was August 5th, 2012, when a massive cyber-attack crippled operations of one of the world’s leading petroleum and natural gas company, Saudi Aramco. A Virus named ‘Shamoon’ wiped out data from 35,000 computers bringing most of their operations...
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Gone are the days when employees used to walk into the office, login into their systems, finish their daily tasks and walk out. Today, the jobs scenario is different. Working from remote locations, signing in at different hours, logging...
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In today’s day and age, mobile devices are the most omnipresent and utilized creations on Earth and have permeated both professional and personal lives of individuals. This increasing presence has led organizations to further their employees’ productivity and ease of...
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Organizations face cyber threats on multiple fronts. There is a threat of virus and malware that can corrupt the data on individual machines and servers, malware that can damage the systems and programs, network intrusions to steal the information from the...
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Data theft or loss by employees is a reality no one can deny. The cost of one such internal breach at Bank of America was 10 million USD. According to a study by Verizon, almost 20% of the all the data...