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What’s the next stage in cybersecurity? An AI-powered, data-centric model
CEO of MinerEye tells ZDNet how he stopped chasing bad guys and worked to rethink the paradigm IT uses to protect a company’s most valuable digital assets. Jason Hiner: Hello and welcome to RSAC TV. I’m Jason Hiner, the host this morning from ZDNet and TechRepublic. Here, we’re going to talk about this week lots […]
3 key takeaways from the Zuckerberg hearings
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testified before House and Senate committees this week after revelations that political research firm Cambridge Analytica gained access to 87 million Facebook users’ data during the 2016 election season. Zuckerberg survived a five-hour Senate grilling on Tuesday, returning to the House for four more hours the next day. Topics ranged […]
Cybersecurity Concerns Temper Optimism On ISC West 2018 Day One
ISC West in Las Vegas kicked off with a bang on Wednesday, reflecting a healthy physical security industry with an overall upbeat outlook on the future. Driving the optimism is a pending new wave of product innovation, propelled largely by developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning. Some of that new wave is evident […]
Cybersecurity: 4 Ways to Defend Your Data
In the last few years cybersecurity has become a hot-button issue for people everywhere. In a way, it is the new craze that is causing people to turn to extreme and often silly theories about the nature of the internet. Some of these concerns, however, are rooted in truth. For instance, the attacks on Equifax […]
Cybersecurity Drills More Important Than Ever for Data Centers
In the middle of a disaster is the worst possible time to discover that the backups won’t load, the cloud service provider can’t be reached, the firewall has a leak, and the one guy with all the key passwords is at a no-phones-allowed yoga retreat. According to A.N. Ananth, CEO of cybersecurity firm EventTracker, there […]
CEO Disconnect On Cybersecurity Increases Risk Of Breaches
The past year was full of high-profile headlines about companies experiencing sensational malware breaches. The so-called cyberworm WannaCry, for example, attacked Microsoft systems, infecting 200,000 computers overnight, hitting 150 countries and affecting much of Britain’s National Healthcare System. Other ransomware attacks, such as Petya, NotPetya and BadRabbit, grabbed the media’s attention, too — and even […]
Cybersecurity Threats May Have Saved Virtual Desktops
In the summer of 2014, I attended a Citrix roadmap seminar for Citrix service providers at the company’s headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Citrix HQ was full of energy and exuded the confidence you’d expect to see from a cloud technology innovator. And while their product experts shared their Citrix vision over the next […]
How AI Can Be Applied To Cyberattacks
Nowadays, artificial intelligence is a kind of a de facto standard. One would be hard-pressed to find an industry where AI or machine learning found no applications. AI projects are popping up everywhere — from law to medicine, farming to the space industry. Cybersecurity is not an exception. As early as 2013, pioneer companies such […]
Understanding the Relationship Between AI and Cybersecurity
The first thing many of us think about when it comes to the future relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity is Skynet—the fictional neural net-based group mind from the “Terminator” movie franchise. But at least one security professional (with a somewhat rosier view) suggested that AI must be understood across a broader landscape, regarding […]
Cybersecurity Firm, Symantec Reports 10,000% Rise in Cases of Crypto-Jacking in Sweden
The blockchain and cryptocurrencies have been a disruptive force in the technological ecosystem creating opportunities for millions of people. But not all opportunities can be a benefit to the society. With the rise of blockchain technology, a new type of cyber threat or crime has been surrounding this ecosystem- Crypto Jacking. In fact, Sweden has […]