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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new regulation affecting organizations that reside in the European Union (EU) or merely transmit EU....

On Monday, October 16, researchers announced the discovery of several vulnerabilities within the wireless protocol WPA and WPA2. The details of these....

2017 has been a very busy year for cybersecurity professionals. It seems weekly, if not daily, news breaks of a new data breach or intrusion of....

The most widely known requirements in PCI DSS 3.2 section 11 with a timing implication are the quarterly external and internal vulnerability scans (11....

Criminals oftentimes utilize current events (natural disasters, large data breaches, public massacres, terrorist attacks, etc.) to target not just the....

Currently, an estimated 6.4 billion Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are connected, with 67 percent residing in North America, Western Europe and....

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month; the annual campaign led by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that seeks to raise awareness....

Key steps to cybersecurity in the workplace include establishing and maintaining a “security culture” in which company networks and the data they hold....

Often when I’m onsite with clients, gathering requirements for an identity and access management (IAM) solution implementation, I’m asked, “What are....

From cyber bullying to obtaining personal and sensitive information through phishing campaigns, harm lurks in many corners of the Internet. With a few....

I love it when my teenager says something like, “You know Dad, that’s how they designed it,” when in fact, my child does not have any evidence to....

There’s evidence that ransomware may be evolving beyond holding data hostage. In recent news, DDoS attacks were used as a threat against organizations....