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RSA Conference 2015 – San Francisco 20-24 April 2015

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Offering five full days of educational training from experienced industry practitioners, the RSA Conference is widely regarded as one of the world''s leading forums for enterprises and technical information security professionals. Why you need to attend RSA Conference 2015. Seven hours of high level networking. More speakers.

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Booz Allen Releases Annual Financial Services Cyber Trends for 2015

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” Booz Allen has created a list of 2015’s top Cyber Security Trends. The Top Financial Services Cyber Security Trends for 2015: Third-party risk moves to the top of the list. By Katie Kennedy. The question is “what will come next,” after 2014 was the “year of the breach.”

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IBM: Financial services industry bombarded by malware, security threats

Network World

The financial services industry is the target of a whopping 65% more targeted cyber-attacks than the average business, according to security watchers at IBM’s X Force. Financial institutions were forced to defend against a 29 percent increase in the number of attacks from 2015, IBM stated.

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2015 Cyberthreat Defense Report Reveals Cyberattacks Rising and Confidence Sinking

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CyberEdge Group surveyed more than 800 security decision makers and practitioners seeking a 360 degree view of threats, defenses and planned investments. Their bottom line up front: IT security spending is increasing, but confidence is falling. Phishing, malware, and zero-days top of mind. Security spending continues to rise.

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NotPetya and Olympic Destroyer Malware: 6 Russian Officers Charged

SecureWorld News

But the GRU members being charged in this case started with other strains of malware and a narrow target: Ukraine's power grid. Assistant Attorney General For National Security, John Demers, says the power grid attacks in 2015 and 2016 were the first known destructive attacks against civilian critical infrastructure.

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Security attacks and countermeasures

Cloud Musings

Johnson Cyber security is rapidly becoming a significant issue in the C-suite as well as the population at large. The results of Dell’s Global Technology Adoption Index(GTAI) [1] show that security is a top concern for most of the 2000 global small and medium businesses surveyed. by Sandra K. For example, recent breaches include 3.65

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Basic security could have prevented OPM breach, says report

Computer Weekly

Basic security controls and malware-detection tools could have prevented the breach of more than 21 million records at the US Office of Personnel Management in 2015, claims a congressional report

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