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Don’t break the bank: Stopping ransomware from getting the best of your business

Network World

Today, with the cloud, mobility, and the rise of hybrid work, an organization’s attack surface has exponentially expanded. The life cycle of a cyberattack Regardless of the method that threat actors use to commit cyberattacks—phishing, malware, and, yes, ransomware—the stages of every attack are remarkably similar. Stay up to date.

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These are the 15 Top Cyber Threats Now

SecureWorld News

First, however, let's look at the top 15 cyber threats organizations face right now, according to the report: Malware. Trends in Malware attacks. We can't look at all of these categories, but let's talk about the number one cyber attack threat of malware. 46,5%_of all malware in e-mail messages found in ‘.docx’

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Booz Allen Releases Annual Financial Services Cyber Trends for 2015

CTOvision

Economic prosperity and light-speed growth in mobile banking in some countries have bypassed regional and local financial organizations’ ability to manage threats. As a result, phishing, ATM skimming and banking malware are no longer the sole concern of “Western” or multi-national financial firms. Read more on BusinessWire.

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Security attacks and countermeasures

Cloud Musings

The outcomes further noted that such concerns create barriers to the adoption of critical technologies that drive value and growth: mobility, cloud and big data. The resulting breaches occur primarily through malware, including Trojan horses, adware, worms, viruses and downloaders [6]. Most Active Malware Today.

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Why Financial Services Firms are Championing Natural Language Processing

CIO Business Intelligence

billion in cost savings for the insurance industry as well during the same period. . For banks, brokerages, insurance companies, fintech firms, and other financial services organizations, NLP is increasingly being seen as a solution to too much data and too few employees. The same study estimated that chatbots would lead to $1.3

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InfoSec Policies and Standards: Some strategic context for those just diving into this world

CTOvision

Time, money, and resource mobilization are some factors that are discussed in this level. Some of the assets that these policies cover are mobile, wireless, desktop, laptop and tablet computers, email, servers, Internet, etc. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ). Acceptable usage policy.

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Cost or Value? - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

Whenever you have a conversation about mobile you will invariably end up talking about BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and COPE (Corporate Owned Personally Enabled) programs. One person or another will form a team to study the costs associated with mobile and what can be done to bring those down. Let’s take an insurance adjuster.

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