Focus Area: Current threats

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8 Security Strategies for Unmanaged Devices

Michelle Drolet

Click Here to Watch the Webinar Now > View the Presentation >   About the Webinar Enterprises face an exploding number of unmanaged and IoT devices on their networks, and cyber attacks are increasingly targeting these vulnerable devices. Join Armis and Towerwall to learn about 8 ways that you can secure your enterprise from these

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The Cost of a Data Breach in 2018

Michelle Drolet

58 data records are stolen every second at an average cost of $141 each. Trading in intellectual property and personal data is so widespread that someone invented a calculator that can estimate the potential harm to your own business. Nearly 5 million data records are lost or stolen worldwide every single day, according to the

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Join us for a Dinner Seminar with Darktrace – Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Michelle Drolet

Towerwall & Darktrace Dinner Seminar Hosted by Towerwall When: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Where: Il Capriccio 888 Main St, Waltham, MA 02453 To Register: Contact Kelley Gallo atkelleyg@towerwall.com About DarkTrace Darktrace is the world’s leading machine learning company for cybersecurity. Created by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, the Enterprise

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Meetup: ARMIS IoT Security – Thursday, January 11, 2018

Michelle Drolet

Join us for our next InfoSec at Your Services Meetup: “ARMIS IoT Security” Hosted by Michelle Drolet When: Thursday, January 11, 2018 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Where: Skyboxx, 319 Speen Street, Natick We will discuss: Internet of Things – IoT – the latest buzzwords conjour up images of toasters and refrigerators being controlled by

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8 Cybersecurity Trends to Watch for in 2018

Michelle Drolet

New challenges and threats will face IT departments in the year ahead. As we stand on the threshold of another year, the war for our cybersecurity rages on. There have been many data breaches in 2017, most notably for Equifax, Verizon, and Kmart. But if you seek a silver lining in the cloud, perhaps you’ll

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The Darwin defense: can ‘genetic algorithms’ outsmart malware?

Michelle Drolet

Coming to a future near you: software code that mutates and evolves. We often talk about computer systems and information security in biological terms. Threats and defenses evolve, viruses run rampant, and machines learn by emulating the neural networks in our brains. Cybersecurity is an endless war between attackers and defenders, just as biology is

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Join Michelle Drolet at the Worcester Business Journal IT Forum #WBJITFORUM

Michelle Drolet

Date: October 25, 2017 Time: 3:00pm-6:30pm Location: DCU Center 50 Foster Street, Worcester Single Ticket Rate: $40.00 Register Today > Please join us and presenting sponsor Echostor and NetApp for this special forum for CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, senior IT leaders and business owners from all industries. Connect and collaborate with some of the area’s top experts on relevant and timely business technology issues and

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Making a bad situation worse: how Equifax mishandled the breach

Michelle Drolet

Companies must respond to data breaches properly to limit the damage. Unfortunately, Equifax did not. There have been some very high-profile data breaches in the last few years, but the latest disaster to hit the headlines concerns one of the largest credit bureaus in the United States. It’s estimated that the Equifax data breach exposed 143 million consumers, with

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Achieving long-term resilience with NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework

Michelle Drolet

The need for continuous monitoring, effective metrics and skilled workers. The laudable aim of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to build a common language through a set of best practices and security principles that any organization can apply to combat cybercrime. We’ve looked at what NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework can do for you.

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