Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Dean Alvarez
Ping Identity Announces Additions To Leadership Team.
Ping Identity, the leader in Identity Defined Security, today announced the addition of two new executives to its leadership team. Bernard Harguindeguy is now Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Richard Bird has been appointed Chief Customer Information Officer (CCIO). These senior leaders bring much knowledge expertise to the organisation, with strong backgrounds in the API security and identity and access management (IAM) industries.
Netskope Expands Amazon Web Services Security Capabilities With Insider Threat Protection, Continuous Security Assessment Enhancements.
Netskope, the leader in cloud security, today announced the release of several enhancements to Netskope for IaaS. For Amazon Web Services (AWS), enterprises can now use Netskope to create and enforce policies prohibiting data exfiltration from managed to unmanaged Amazon S3 buckets. Organizations can also achieve their compliance objectives with a continuous view of cloud inventory, and identify assets that may need configuration remediations.
Global Study Finds Artificial Intelligence is Key Cybersecurity Weapon in the IoT Era
As businesses struggle to combat increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks, the severity of which is exacerbated by both the vanishing IT perimeters in today’s mobile and IoT era, coupled with an acute shortage of skilled security professionals, IT security teams need both a new approach and powerful new tools to protect data and other high-value assets.
City of Stockholm Selects MobileIron Threat Defense to Detect and Mitigate Mobile Threats
MobileIron, the secure foundation for modern work, today announced that City of Stockholm has selected MobileIron Threat Defense to detect and mitigate mobile threats. MobileIron Threat Defense will be deployed on 30,000 mobile devices used by the employees of the City of Stockholm. MobileIron Threat Defense provides unparalleled mobile threat protection, securing mobile devices from device, network, and app threats.
Future UK Cyber Security Stars Tackle Vulnerable Cryptocurrency in Latest Challenges
On Friday, Her Majesty’s Government Communications Centre (HMGCC) and leading science and engineering company QinetiQ hosted the latest Cyber Security Challenge UK Face-to-Face competition at QinetiQ’s headquarters in Farnborough. The competition saw 28 code-breaking amateurs from across the country ethically hack the cryptocurrency wallets of customers from a fictitious bank.
Akamai Credential Stuffing Report Shows Financial Services Industry Under Constant Attack From Automated Account Takeover Tools
According to the Akamai 2018 State of the Internet / Security Credential Stuffing Attacks report, worldwide malicious login attempts are on the rise. Findings from the report show that Akamai detected approximately 3.2 billion malicious logins per month from January through April 2018, and over 8.3 billion malicious login attempts from bots in May and June 2018 – a monthly average increase of 30 percent.
Integration with Cisco Technologies Delivers IT / ICS Security
Large organizations utilize a variety of technologies and solutions to create cyber resiliency, an important part of the best practice known as Defense in Depth. But, using disparate systems can actually result in increased security exposure and risks, and slower response to threats. A few years ago, Cisco began working with the best and brightest minds around the world to address this issue.
83 percent of UK consumers unsure of fintech, according to wide-ranging survey
More than eight out of ten people in Britain (83 percent) are ‘unsure’ of fintech, according to a survey of 2,000 UK consumers commissioned by TopLine Comms. Fintech companies leverage technology to offer financial services. Despite the fintech sector in the UK thriving, attracting more fintech investment than China and the US in H1 2018, the research shows UK consumers are still wary of new finance companies, and feel more comfortable using the services of traditional banks.
Alert Logic announces new Partner Connect Program
Alert Logic, the leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions, this week launched the Alert Logic® Partner Connect Program, empowering partners to offer market-leading security solutions that enhance their existing offerings. The new program enables partners to accelerate revenue while increasing the value they offer to their customers, especially resource-constrained buyers and mid-market organisations that must secure cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments.
BSIMM9 Study Highlights Impact of Cloud Transformation and Growth of Software Security Community
Earlier this month, Synopsys released BSIMM9, the latest version of the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) designed to help organisations plan, execute, and measure their software security initiatives (SSIs). The ninth iteration of BSIMM reflects data collected over a 10-year study of real-world SSIs across 120 firms.
Janrain Survey Shows Consumers Still Trust Brands but Want More Control over Data
Janrain®, the company that pioneered the Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) category, today announced during Cybersecurity Awareness Month the results of its latest Consumer Attitudes Toward Data Privacy and Security Survey, which show U.S. consumers still generally trust brands but welcome consent-based relationships following the recent spate of breaches and controversies affecting data privacy.
Alert Logic Extends Security to Cover Any Container Across Multiple Platforms
Alert Logic, the leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions, last week announced major updates to the industry’s only Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) for containers. The release adds container log management and extends capabilities beyond Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Microsoft Azure, on-premises and hosted environments.
One Identity Global Survey Shows Organisations Continue to Struggle to Get Basic Identity and Access Management Best Practices Right, Potentially Exposing Them to Security Risks
One Identity, a proven leader in helping organisations get identity and access management (IAM) right, today released new global research that uncovers a widespread inability to implement basic best practices across identity and access management (IAM) and privileged access management (PAM) security disciplines — likely exposing organisations to data breaches and other significant security risks.
Cyber Security Summit & Expo set to provide unrivalled content for its 9th edition
On November 15th at the Business Design Centre in London, the Cyber Security Summit & Expo the UK’s leading one day event dedicated to cyber security in both the public and private sectors returns for its 9th year. Aside from the dedicated Cyber Security Summit, the event also features the Data Protection Summit focussing on the impact of GDPR as well as providing an essential update on the latest legislation.
RepKnight launches BreachMarkers for ‘watermarking’ of corporate data
Cybersecurity firm RepKnight today extends the capabilities of its flagship dark web monitoring product BreachAlert with BreachMarkers™, a new feature enabling organisations to detect breach or misuse of their data by cybercriminals, staff and third parties. BreachAlert is a data breach detection application that continuously monitors the dark web for corporate data being leaked online.
Corero Announces Global Partnership with Juniper Networks
Corero Network Security (LSE: CNS), a leading provider of real-time, high-performance, automated DDoS defense solutions, today announced it has executed a global partnership agreement with Juniper Networks to sell Corero’s SmartWall DDoS protection software products and services in conjunction with Juniper Networks® MX Series 5G Universal Routing Platform.
Airbus and Atos awarded major cyber security contract to protect key EU institutions
Airbus Defence and Space, through its Airbus CyberSecurity unit and partnering with Atos as coprime entity, have been selected by the Council of the European Union to provide cyber security expertise, products, services and solutions to help protect the IT systems of 17 European institutions, services and agencies.
Compliance is Largest Driver of Data Management Initiatives for Half of Businesses
According to The Future of Enterprise Data: Democratized and Optimized report by ASG Technologies, the trusted provider of proven solutions for information access, management and governance for the world’s top enterprises, compliance is the largest driver of data management initiatives for 50% of CIOs. The survey of 200 CIOs also reveals that more than a third of respondents (35%) plan to increase investment in data governance in 2019.
LSU Researchers Working to Prevent Cyber Attacks on Nation’s Infrastructure
Louisiana is home to many critical assets and companies that are crucial to our nation’s infrastructure. And LSU’s experts are working to conduct research and experiments to prevent and defend against cyber attacks.
Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards 2018 Winners Revealed
The third annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards winners were revealed last night in a fun and inspiring celebration at St Bart’s Brewery in London. The awards celebrate the people, not products, of the cyber security industry.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield delivers opening keynote as IP EXPO Europe has lift-off
A captivating keynote launched IP EXPO Europe for its 13th year yesterday, as renowned astronaut Colonel Chris Hadfield shared his unique experience of space travel and considerations for the next leap for mankind. Hadfield, the former Commander of the International Space Station, spoke in front of a packed crowd about the human element of space travel: the teamwork and collaboration that is required to make an off-world team function.
Monday saw the cybersecurity industry gather for massive Flash Mob event in London
On Monday, over 70 of the great and good in cybersecurity gathered for a Flash Mob event outside the Tower of London to raise awareness of cybersecurity, offering their hints and tips on what you should do to be more secure online! It’s all part of Security Serious Week, an event organised by Eskenzi PR, which runs alongside European Cyber-Security Awareness Month to get the industry to share their skills and educate the wider community on how to be better at cybersecurity.
CyberInt Avengers Assemble!
Cybersecurity company CyberInt has been shortlisted for a Security Serious Unsung Hero award in the Security Avengers category In an era where cybercriminals plan and orchestrate attacks in the anonymous recesses of the Dark Web, effective threat intelligence has to become increasingly pro-active and investigative.
Janrain joins forces with Trusona
Janrain®, the company that pioneered the Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) category and Trusona, the global leader in passwordless identity authentication, today announces a go-to-market partnership that will facilitate the creation of a frictionless, no username/password customer journey while enhancing security within the solution stack.
Integration with Cisco Technologies Delivers IT / ICS Security
Large organizations utilize a variety of technologies and solutions to create cyber resiliency, an important part of the best practice known as Defense in Depth. But, using disparate systems can actually result in increased security exposure and risks, and slower response to threats. A few years ago, Cisco began working with the best and brightest minds around the world to address this issue.
Akamai Credential Stuffing Report Shows Financial Services Industry Under Constant Attack From Automated Account Takeover Tools
According to the Akamai 2018 State of the Internet / Security Credential Stuffing Attacks report, worldwide malicious login attempts are on the rise. Findings from the report show that Akamai detected approximately 3.2 billion malicious logins per month from January through April 2018, and over 8.3 billion malicious login attempts from bots in May and June 2018 – a monthly average increase of 30 percent.
Global Study Finds Artificial Intelligence is Key Cybersecurity Weapon in the IoT Era
As businesses struggle to combat increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks, the severity of which is exacerbated by both the vanishing IT perimeters in today’s mobile and IoT era, coupled with an acute shortage of skilled security professionals, IT security teams need both a new approach and powerful new tools to protect data and other high-value assets.
Future UK Cyber Security Stars Tackle Vulnerable Cryptocurrency in Latest Challenges
On Friday, Her Majesty’s Government Communications Centre (HMGCC) and leading science and engineering company QinetiQ hosted the latest Cyber Security Challenge UK Face-to-Face competition at QinetiQ’s headquarters in Farnborough. The competition saw 28 code-breaking amateurs from across the country ethically hack the cryptocurrency wallets of customers from a fictitious bank.
Cyber Security City Ranking reveals the cities best placed to attract cyber talent
Cyber Security City Ranking reveals the cities best placed to attract cyber talent Cyber security training facility Crucial Academy has released the 2018 Cyber Security City Ranking, revealing the best cities for cyber security professionals, with Reading, Leeds and Cardiff topping the table.
RiskIQ implicates Magecart in breach of British Airways
RiskIQ, the global leader in digital risk management, today revealed that its researchers traced the breach of 380,000 sets of payment information belonging to customers of British Airways to Magecart, the credit-card skimming group made infamous for its July breach of Ticketmaster. Because the attack was reported by British Airways to be web-based and targeting credit card data, RiskIQ researchers strongly suspected Magecart was behind it.
City of Stockholm Selects MobileIron Threat Defense to Detect and Mitigate Mobile Threats
MobileIron, the secure foundation for modern work, today announced that City of Stockholm has selected MobileIron Threat Defense to detect and mitigate mobile threats. MobileIron Threat Defense will be deployed on 30,000 mobile devices used by the employees of the City of Stockholm. MobileIron Threat Defense provides unparalleled mobile threat protection, securing mobile devices from device, network, and app threats.
LuckyMouse Group is back and using a legitimate certificate to sign Malware
The Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has discovered several infections from a previously unknown Trojan, which is most likely related to the infamous Chinese-speaking threat actor – LuckyMouse. The most peculiar trait of this malware is its hand-picked driver, signed with a legitimate digital certificate, which has been issued by a company developing information security-related software.
Trend Micro Survey Finds IoT Deployment Decisions Made Without Consulting Security Teams
Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, today revealed that organizations around the world are exposing themselves to unnecessary cyber risk by failing to give IT security teams a voice when planning Internet of Things (IoT) project deployments in enterprise environments.
F5 Labs analysis reveals growing global phishing menace and application security vulnerabilities
Findings from F5 Labs’ Lessons Learned from a Decade of Data Breaches report has shed light on the global proliferation of phishing, providing clear insights on why the technique is fast becoming cybercriminals’ easiest and most productive attack vector. The threat intelligence reveals that phishing is responsible for almost half of breached records by root cause (48%).
Growing focus on compliance could leave businesses vulnerable to fraud
An increased focus on compliance risks detracting businesses from making investments to protect their organisation against fraud, according to new research by TransUnion (formerly Callcredit). The research, part of which forms the Fraud Fortress report, revealed that compliance is the area most commonly expected to drive increased expenditure (64%), potentially at the expense of prevention or detection.
Flash mob brings UK industry together to show it’s serious about security
Security Serious Week, as part of European Cyber Security Awareness month in October, has gathered IT security professionals to work together non-gratis to help make the UK safer place to do business online. On the 1st October, the first day of Security Serious Week, representatives from industry and government will come together in London to share their best tips on how businesses can be smarter about cyber security.
Two New Attacks on TPM Chips uncovered
Dean is Features Editor at IT Security Guru. Aside from cyber security and all things tech, Dean's interests include wine tasting, roller blading and playing the oboe in his Christian rock band, Noughts & Crosses. You can reach Dean via email - dean@itsecurityguru.org
Air Canada suffers major data breach
Dean is Features Editor at IT Security Guru. Aside from cyber security and all things tech, Dean's interests include wine tasting, roller blading and playing the oboe in his Christian rock band, Noughts & Crosses. You can reach Dean via email - dean@itsecurityguru.org
Studying the bankers: Asacub Trojan, the leading mobile banking Trojan for the last year
Kaspersky Lab experts detected the activity of infamous Asacub mobile banker over the past year has held the leading position (38%) among all mobile banking Trojans. More detailed information can be found in the first of a special Kaspersky Lab series on the most active banking Trojans. The reason behind Asacub’s continued sustainability lies in the fact that the domains of its command server change, and there are disposable phishing links for downloading the Trojan.
Ditch Social Login for Mobile Login
A massive privacy breach occurred in April 2018 when Cambridge Analytica obtained information belonging to 87 million people because users unwittingly allowed Facebook to share their own and friends’ data with a personality test app. Cambridge Analytica was roasted by the media.
Global Survey Shows Companies Are Using More Automation in Cybersecurity, But Still Have Work to Do
, a global leader in cybersecurity management, has released the results of a global survey conducted by Osterman Research, Understanding Security Processes and the Need to Automate. The survey, which includes responses from 465 senior security leaders at large enterprises in the U.S., EMEA and APAC,* reveals trends in the use of security automation, as well as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
Midyear Security Roundup combines expansive Trend Micro data to offer business insights on growing threats
( ; ), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, today released its Midyear Security Roundup 2018, revealing that cybercriminals are moving away from attention-grabbing ransomware attacks to more covert methods intended to steal money and valuable computing resources. Crypto-jacking attempts are making the biggest impact so far this year.
New McAfee Survey Finds Parents Ignore their own Concerns of Sharing Images of their Children Online
McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, announces findings from its new study, The Age of Consent. The study discovered that 20% of UK parents share at least one video or photo of their children on social media a day, resulting in approximately 1.3 billion images of children under the age of 16 floating around on social media a year – showing the extent of child exposure on the web.
Democrats claim latest hack on elections was a false alarm
Dean is Features Editor at IT Security Guru. Aside from cyber security and all things tech, Dean's interests include wine tasting, roller blading and playing the oboe in his Christian rock band, Noughts & Crosses. You can reach Dean via email - dean@itsecurityguru.org
T-Mobile halts cyber attack
T-Mobile USA announced a security breach late last night. The company says its cyber-security team discovered and shut down unauthorized access to its customers’ data on Monday, August 20. The telco says an attacker was exfiltrating personal data such as customer names, billing ZIP codes, phone numbers, email addresses, account numbers, and account types (prepaid or postpaid).
New Trojan malware fixated on targeting banks
Dean is Features Editor at IT Security Guru. Aside from cyber security and all things tech, Dean's interests include wine tasting, roller blading and playing the oboe in his Christian rock band, Noughts & Crosses. You can reach Dean via email - dean@itsecurityguru.org
Security nightmare: 27% of enterprises take months to install vital security updates
Over a quarter (27%) of enterprise IT departments must wait at least a month before they can install vital security updates. That’s according to a new ‘ ’ report from enterprise content delivery company Kollective, which examines the software testing and distribution bottlenecks throughout large organisations in the US and UK.
New Research: Cloud Adoption on the Rise, but 54 Percent of Organizations at Risk
Druva, the leader in cloud data protection and management, today announced the results of its 2018 State of Virtualization in the Cloud survey to understand how enterprises working in virtual environments are approaching cloud migration. The results show cloud adoption is growing for virtualized workloads, with 90 percent of respondents running, or planning to run, virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud in 2018.
About 567,000 payment card numbers may have been exposed in latest Cheddar breach
Dean is Features Editor at IT Security Guru. Aside from cyber security and all things tech, Dean's interests include wine tasting, roller blading and playing the oboe in his Christian rock band, Noughts & Crosses. You can reach Dean via email - dean@itsecurityguru.org
First Mac Malware in Cryptocurrency Exchange attack deployed by Lazarus Group
Lazarus Group, the North Korean hackers who hacked Sony Films a few years back, have deployed their first Mac malware ever, according to Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab. In a report shared with Bleeping Computer in advance, Kaspersky researchers reveal that Lazarus Group penetrated the IT systems of an Asia-based cryptocurrency exchange platform. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Dean
Contact Dean, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack