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Retail Cybersecurity Is Lagging in the Digital Transformation Race, and Attackers are Taking Advantage (Security Intelligence)

Digital transformation is dominating retailers’ attention — and their IT budgets. As a result, significant gaps in retail cybersecurity are left unfilled just as retail IT face... More

IBM Announces Cloud-Based Community Platform for Cybersecurity Applications (MESA)

IBM today announced a new cloud-based community platform for cyber security applications. IBM Security Connect is the first security cloud platform built on open federated technolo... More

Why You Should Practice and Drill to Prepare for a Cyber Emergency (Security Intelligence)

Nowadays, businesses operate in a ubiquitous computing environment, relying on information technology to enable the speed and agility of modern business practices from payroll to p... More

The Inconvenient Truth About Your Eight-Character Password (Security Intelligence)

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), which means it’s time to talk about passwords for the umpteenth time. Why beat this dead horse again? Because just abo... More

Cybersecurity Skills Aren’t Just for Security Professionals Anymore (Security Intelligence)

Many IT and security professionals pride themselves on their complexity, portraying a situation in which computer security is this magical and mysterious art that only those workin... More

IBM Wins Patent for Blockchain-Based Network Security System (Coin Desk)

A new patent awarded to tech giant IBM highlights how blockchain tech might play a role in monitoring security breaches within computer networks. First filed in September 2017 and ... More

Why We Need Women in Security and What IBM Security is Doing to Help (SecurityIntelligence)

It’s particularly grim in our industry, with women in security comprising only 11 percent of the workforce, and even fewer in technical roles. With an estimated 3.5 million unfil... More

How IBM Security’s Brad Olive Fights Fires with Security Awareness (SecurityIntelligence)

Brad Olive, learning services program director at IBM Security, uses knowledge to fight fires. Since the advent of the internet, Brad has been spreading security awareness — whic... More

Less is More: Why CISOs Should Consolidate Their Security Tools (Security Intelligence)

As chief information security officers (CISOs) grapple with a broad range of duties — including cyber risk management, security investigations oversight, incident response, secur... More

Cybersecurity Muscle Memory: Drilling for a Tight Incident Response (Security Intelligence)

An optimal incident response solution allows various actors to view common dashboards, includes the collection of assets and artifacts pertaining to stages of investigation or reme... More