CSO Update

Aug 29, 2017

What's new in ransomware?

Ransomware attacks--and defenses against them--are evolving fast, but enterprises still struggle to keep up. Read More ▶

Your Must-Read Stories

•	How Bitdefender HVI protects virtual browsers

•	Companies face legion of security operations challenges

•	Next generation firewalls to become last generation firewalls

•	How much is a good deal worth?

•	Security leaders need better visibility of risk before the board asks

White Paper: TUV Rheinland

Critical Challenges and Opportunities in Smart Home Product Design

What makes a smart home device 'smart' is its ability to effortlessly communicate with other devices in the home ecosystem, and often also to the internet, while also securing and keeping secure the homeowner's privacy and personal data at all times. Read More ▶

How Bitdefender HVI protects virtual browsers

The Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection (HVI) tool sits below the hypervisor and prevents any of these tactics such as buffer overflows, heap sprays, code injection and API hooking from executing, protecting the virtual browser from ever becoming compromised. Read More ▶

Companies face legion of security operations challenges

Cybersecurity professionals admit it takes too long and costs too much to detect and respond to security incidents. Read More ▶

Next generation firewalls to become last generation firewalls

While next-generation firewalls remain a critical component in a business' security solution, hackers have moved to new attacks in order to evade them. Combining the newer attack vectors with artificial intelligence and machine learning and hackers are about to create a new wave of chaos. Read More ▶

How much is a good deal worth?

When advertising crosses the line into invasion of privacy, consumers need to ask hard questions about what personal data they're giving away. Read More ▶

Security leaders need better visibility of risk before the board asks

Kevin Cunningham, president of SailPoint, discusses how security leaders need better visibility of risks so they can advise their boards and protect their companies. Read More ▶

eBook: Forcepoint

Advanced Evasion Techniques for Dummies

Welcome to Advanced Evasion Techniques For Dummies, your guide to the security evasion techniques that have become a serious preoccupation of the IT industry. This isn't to say that IT security hasn't been a major source of worry in the past; on the contrary, the last decade has been witness to growing security threats, cybercrime and compliance regulations. Read More ▶

CSO Insider

1.	Database security face-off: IBM Guardium vs. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security
2.	State of Cybercrime 2017: Security events decline, but not the impact
3.	Container security: How Waratek blocks Java exploits
4.	Patrolling network traffic with SecBI
5.	Lacework unmasks hidden attackers amid data center and cloud chaos

Editor's Picks

1.	Malicious code in the Node.js npm registry shakes open source trust model
2.	The 10 Windows group policy settings you need to get right
3.	Separation of duties and IT security
4.	Why SSL/TLS attacks are on the rise
5.	IT's 9 biggest security threats