June 27, 2018
How much data are you giving up just to access financial services, get paid, or simply buy liquor? Recently, this writer did some work for a large company that onboarded suppliers and processed payments through a third party service bureau. Part of the process involved proving that I was qualified to work in Canada. For […]
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May 31, 2018
Allison Miller knows a lot about risk. The senior vice president of engineering at Bank of America spent most of her career modelling and mitigating it for companies in the financial and gaming sector. When we interviewed her at SecTor 2017 last November, she was product manager for security and privacy at Google. She spent […]
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May 1, 2018
Well, it’s finally That Month. On May 25th, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect. Guess what? Hardly anyone is ready for it. GDPR is set to be the most stringent privacy regulation ever, and it affects more than just companies in Europe. Anyone handling data on people living in the EU […]
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April 24, 2018
You spend time paying down your credit card and mortgage debt at home, but are you up to date on your security debt? Security debt is an offshoot of another term, known as technical debt. The latter isn’t itself a common term in an industry always chasing shiny new features. First coined by agile development […]
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March 13, 2018
It’s 2018, and companies are still fighting governments over how to handle data breaches. Verizon just lost a bid to stop users from suing it over several data breaches at its Yahoo! online property. The state of Pennsylvania sued Uber for waiting over a year to tell customers that their personal information had been compromised, […]
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February 16, 2018
Cryptojacking has been in the news lately as hackers infected thousands of web sites around the world with software that turned their computers into unauthorized cryptocurrency miners. At the same time, respected news and opinion web site Salon has taken the high road, giving visitors the chance to mine for cryptocurrency instead of reading ads. […]
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January 26, 2018
Picture this: You’re a law enforcement agent, and you collared a terrorist who said that there will be an attack on a major city in the next 24 hours. Thousands might die. He doesn’t know the details, because his terrorist cell was compartmentalized. All he did was put the bomb together. You have a phone […]
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January 18, 2018
Each year, the guardians of the English language over at Merriam-Webster must accommodate new words in a changing world. We revel at the thought of conservative editors sitting in a dusty office, wincing as they write up the definitions for ‘humblebrag’, ‘woo-woo’, ‘binge-watch’ and ‘photobomb’. In 2018, we think it’s time they added another: ‘breach […]
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January 11, 2018
The cybersecurity industry is on fire. As attackers innovate, defenders are relying on new technologies to given them an advantage. What technologies are most promising in the battle to protect our networks and data? SecTor asked several of its experts. People were most fired up about artificial intelligence and its subset, machine learning. Machine learning […]
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January 3, 2018
2018 is here, and it’s time to take stock and look for areas of self-improvement. That goes not just for companies looking at their own security, but also for vendors tackling the cybersecurity market in 2018. SecTor asked its team of experts what single thing they thought the cybersecurity industry could be doing better in […]
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December 27, 2017
2017 has been a roller coaster year. Data breaches continued to get larger and more severe. Equifax dropped the personal details of up to 145m people, while leaving millions of citizens’ personal data unencrypted on cloud storage became a trend. Things couldn’t get much worse from a security standpoint, but the new year is a […]
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