Organizations around the globe are investing heavily in cyber defense capabilities to protect their critical assets. Whether protecting brand, intellectual capital, and customer information or providing controls for critical infrastructure, the means for incident detection and response to protect organizational interests have common elements: people, processes, and technology.

The maturity of these elements varies greatly across organizations and industries. In this fourth…

As mobile gains more capabilities and access to company data, mobile devices continue to play an important role in how workers do their jobs. Information workers are no longer tied to their PCs — smartphones, tablets, and laptops give them the flexibility to choose the device that best suits the context of each task performed. The internet of things (IoT)…

Author - Tushar Vartak, Director Information Security, Rak Bank

Since 12th Apr 2017, a Ransomware exploiting MS17-010 has been wreaking havoc worldwide.

Precautions to be taken:

1 - Patch Management

• Ensure all…

Author - Abdur Rafi, CISO, ABP Pvt. Ltd., India

A series of broad attack began that spread the latest version of the WanaCryptor ransomware. This attack, also referred to as WannaCrypt or WannaCry, reportedly impacted systems of public and private organizations worldwide.  The attack caused Britain's NHS to cancel surgeries, a wide array of Russian and Chinese private and public institutions to be crippled most of the day, and the rest of the world to recoil in…

CISO Platform Decision Summit @Pune, last week saw over 150+ attendees for over 2 days making the the spirit of knowledge sharing and learning a huge success in the Information Security Executives of India. Here are the highlights of the awesome keynotes, electrocuting Turbo sessions and some great knowledge boost training sessions.

It was held on 12th & 13th May, Hyatt, Pune, India.…

This Article was shared by Nachiket Sathaye, Information Security Consultant, Ultradefence Solutions

“We are PCI Compliant, now we are secured”- While assisting customers with their PCI DSS Compliance, I always come across teams making this statement. This is a very common myth amongst PCI DSS customers. Do you really think that you will not face any security threats once you are PCI compliant - Absolutely not!…