Healthcare breaches skyrocket -- is there hope?; Intel vulnerability

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Network World Security Alert May 03, 2017 Healthcare data breaches skyrocket, but is there good news coming? Bitglass' Healthcare Breach Report provides a sobering view of the state of healthcare data security. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Vulnerability hits Intel enterprise PCs going back 10 years • Cisco fires back at VMware decision to whack third party virtual switches • SMBs continue to be a target of cybercriminals • Career Watch: Be wary of IT employment contracts • Cisco certifications target business professionals eyeing software roles • IBM: Financial services industry bombarded by malware, security threats • Android gets patches for critical flaws in media handling, hardware drivers • The move toward enterprise security technology integration • Network monitoring tools: Features users love and hate Solution Center: Rapid7 Do You Have the Power to Make Nothing Happen? When it comes to security, the ability to "Make Nothing Happen" is really quite exciting. Check out these resources to learn how Rapid7's threat exposure management, incident detection and security advisory services enable organizations to see network risks and spot attacks before they damage your network. When you can make nothing happen, your enterprise can make growth happen. Read More ▶ Vulnerability hits Intel enterprise PCs going back 10 years Intel is reporting a firmware vulnerability that could let attackers take over remote management functions on computers built over the past decade. Read More ▶ Cisco fires back at VMware decision to whack third party virtual switches Cisco today said it would offer its virtual switch users technology to get around VMware's recent elimination of support for third party virtual switches. Read More ▶ SMBs continue to be a target of cybercriminals Believing that their security program is good enough means there's a good chance they'll be breached. Here are some lessons from the bigs guys for the SMBs. Read More ▶ Career Watch: Be wary of IT employment contracts An attorney warns about the gotchas in employment contracts; security jobs go begging; master's degrees in computer science pay off. Read More ▶ Cisco certifications target business professionals eyeing software roles Trying to keep business professionals ahead of the rapidly changing technology environment, Cisco this week rolled out new business certificate and training packages. Read More ▶ IBM: Financial services industry bombarded by malware, security threats IBM X Force says financial services are targeted 65% more by cyber-attacks than the average organization Read More ▶ Android gets patches for critical flaws in media handling, hardware drivers Android has received security fixes for over one hundred vulnerabilities, including 29 critical flaws in the media processing server, hardware-specific drivers and other components. Read More ▶ The move toward enterprise security technology integration Enterprises want best-of-breed security technology and integration. They'd buy from enterprise-class cybersecurity vendors—if they knew who they were. Read More ▶ Network monitoring tools: Features users love and hate IT pros identify what they like, and don't like, about network monitoring software from CA, Microsoft, and other vendors. Read More ▶ Video/Webcast: Leidos Managed Detection & Response (MDR) Drives Incident Prevention According to Gartner in the Global MSSP Magic Quadrant report, "65% of MSSP's by 2020 will offer Managed Detection & Response (MDR)." The cybersecurity market is shifting. Today's ever-evolving threat landscape is driving organizations to change how they address incident prevention. 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