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The global cyber war is heating up: Why businesses should be worried
From NotPetya's global disruption to North Korea's digital plundering of financial institutions, state-sponsored cyber attacks should be top of mind for business leaders. Here's how to defend against them.
What happens if... disaster recovery for the smart city and beyond
Using disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) for smart distributed data.
Edge Data Center: Optimizing & Modernizing Education Technology
One of the most important, yet least talked about issues facing next generation IT infrastructure, is the increasing move of resources to the "edge". As new applications and workloads demand more localized resources, IT organizations
Data as a smart superstructure: a warning to the wise
Only by having a robust data governance stance can we hope to, not only protect our individual critical infrastructure sectors but the city and its citizens.
Salted Hash Ep 14: Are mass transit systems the next big target?
This week Salted Hash talks with Stan Engelbrecht, director of the cybersecurity practice at D3 Security, about the inherent flaws in security defenses for public transportation systems -- and what can be done.
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Are mass transit systems the next cybersecurity target? | Salted Hash Ep 14
Host Steve Ragan talks with Stan Engelbrecht, director of the cybersecurity practice at D3 Security, about the inherent flaws in security defenses for public transportation systems -- and what can be done.
Defeating 21st Century pirates: the maritime industry and cyberattacks
An increasingly digitized maritime industry needs to keep up with cybersecurity.
DOTcomm Case Study
Founded in 2003, DOTComm provides centralized IT support and consulting for 70 government agencies in the city of Omaha and Douglas County, NE. DOTComm uses Chrome browser and G Suite to improve employee productivity and mobility and
Protecting business assets
Identifying business assets and connecting your security program to them.
Securing the digital transformation of our critical infrastructure
We must ask how to better protect the critical systems we all rely on.
Cyber resiliency – a key to corporate survival (and sleep)
The recent major cybersecurity events – including WannaCry, NotPetya, and most recently, the Equifax data breach – underscore the need for organizations to be able to respond quickly to incidents (in some cases multiple incidents at...
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Hackers gain access to switch off the power in America and Europe
A new Symantec report claims sophisticated hackers have gained sabotage-level access to energy firms in the U.S. and could flip off the power at will.
Drop a pre-emptive cyber bomb on North Korea?
Cyberwarfare experts share opinions on how to deal with the North Korean cyber threat.
Engineering firm exposes SCIF plans and power vulnerability reports
Chris Vickery, director of cyber risk research at UpGuard, Inc., says that a misconfigured Rsync server maintained by Power Quality Engineering, Inc. (PQE) exposed client information pertaining to critical infrastructure for the City...
10 emerging ICS and IIoT cybersecurity companies to watch
Keep an eye on these companies in the growing Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) security market.
The road to APIness in customer identity
Ditching the identity platform for a universal identity API approach. Using API recipes to build the identity ecosystem moving away from the static platform designs, to a world where identity and data components truly come together...
Choose preparation over fear to protect critical infrastructure
Patrick Dennis lines up for a Security Slap Shot on the need to stop using FUD and start making better preparations to protect critical infrastructure.
Increased cyber awareness must lead to equivalent action
Recent ransomware attacks underscore the importance of a unified global response.
New reality of ransomware attacks spikes FUD in cybersecurity
Cyber attacks and ransomware are in the news, raising fear of a digital Pearl Harbor.
