Operational security

Interview of Abeer Khedr, Information Security Director

Review the interview of Abeer Khedr, Information Security Director of the National Bank of Egypt. She discusses her experience as well as the key strategic issues for the financial sector in Egypt. For more ...

Operational security

Digital Sovereignty: It is High Time to Have a Rant and Take Action!

Five months! Five months have elapsed since March 2020 and the announcement by the President of the French Republic of the introduction of lockdown measures on the French territory. Five months during which our country, ...

Operational security

Continuous Improvement: How do Counterproductive Routines Linger On In Security “best practices”?

Introduction 2020 – X.0 security has not solved the password issue. The “LCR Policy” (for minimum Length, Complexity, and Regular Renewal), intuitive though it may be, persists despite findings that challenge ...

Operational security

Ransomware in Six Questions

What is ransomware? Ransomware is malicious software. Ransomware programs are computer viruses. These viruses block access to information systems or data stored on the victim’s computer or server, then demand that the ...

Operational security

Business Email Compromise: A scourge with a no-brainer defense (by Klara Jordan, Global Cybersecurity Alliance & Rois Ni Thuama, Redsift)

In 2016, Vinci, a construction company, became the victim of a significant business email compromise (BEC)[1] attack. An email which appeared to come from Vinci’s communications director was sent to the news agency ...

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Using differential privacy to protect privacy

The issue of privacy arises in each of our interactions with digital platforms that collect and share user data, sometimes without explicit consent. The rise of machine learning is based on training collected data that may ...