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Cybersecurity: A Field Where an Alliance Makes a Difference (By Eric Monnoyer, INOP’s)
Large public and private organisations must have access to the best expertise to defend themselves against constantly developing cyber threats. This represents a real challenge for them. Companies’ success in digital ...
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Evolution of BCP and crisis management to answer cyber threat (By Xavier Fauquet, Formind)
Introduction The typologies of recent cyber-attacks and the multiplication of attacks push BCP managers in coordination with SSI managers to review and adapt their BCP strategy and crisis management organization. Those ...
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Practice in Cyber Defence: A Key to Success Against Cyberattacks (By Vincent Riou, CEIS)
Companies and organisations must not only be aware of but also protect themselves against cyber threats, which may have disastrous consequences: tarnished image; financial losses; racketeering; theft of client data, patents ...
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Account hacks: the user or the company – who’s to blame? {By Mike Milner, CTO and Co-founder, IMMUNIO}
When people choose weak passwords and reuse those same passwords across a variety of websites, they bear some responsibility for the security breaches that impact them. Historically, this was where it stopped: if you got ...
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Interview: Akamai at the Heart of the Recent DDoS Attacks
The largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are now considerably larger, having doubled in size in 2016. They are not only bigger but also more complex than past DDoS attacks, and defence against them ...
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Cloud and data protection: a story of dangerous liaisons (By François GRATIOLET, Founder & Managing Partner, Business Digital Security)
Data, the new oil of the economy Cyber-attacks are becoming more global with targeted customer data, and intensified both in terms of frequency, financial impact and visibility: Data breaches cost Target a ...
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Which indicators and what data are relevant for a SOC ? (By Julien Steunou, Provadys)
SOCs are under constant pressure to detect all possible forms of attack and all possible weak signals. As a result, they regularly find their detection systems at risk of drowning in a deluge of data far heavier than their ...
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Analysis of HTTPS Traffic: Ending the Gridlock (By Pierre-David Vignolle and Martine Ricouart-Maillet, BRM Avocats)
The TLS protocol (HTTPS traffic) is used on the Internet to secure from end to end the confidentiality and integrity of communications between a client and a server by online services websites, banks (of course) and ...
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Trends in the technologies of detection and response to cyber attacks – By Helmi RAIS, Senior Manager at Alliacom and Team Manager of AlliaCERT
Introduction It has always been shown that attackers innovate faster than defence teams. According to the report in M-Trends 2016, innovation allows the hackers to have an operating window of 143 days on average before ...
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Incident Response: How far can automatisation go ?
Mr.David Grout, SE Director, South Europe at FireEye, Mr. Sebastien Bombal, Anticipation Officer, Chief of the Cyber Defense Staff office, and Mr. Sylvain Labetoule, Datacenter technical Leader at Orange, will be discussing ...
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CYBER SECURITY: THE NEW BUSINESS PRIORITY FACING EXECUTIVES – By Dr Arthur M. Langer, Columbia University
INTRODUCTION Much has been written regarding the importance of how companies deal with cyber threats. While most organizations have focused on the technical ramifications of avoiding being compromised, few have examined ...
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Cybersecurity video of the month: “would you trust this man?” by Paypal
Would you trust this man? Be careful when buying and selling online too, crooks may try to rip you off ! This series of short videos by PayPal features traditional scam attempts: suspicious private car sale, dubious ...