The Security Best Practices for External Sharing on Content Collaboration Platforms blog series examines the state of security for external sharing on the leading Content Collaboration Platforms (CCP). Each week we’ll review a different platform and make security best practice recommendations. Background Box is a California-based public company that was founded in
Content Collaboration Platforms (CCPs) like Box, Citrix ShareFile, Dropbox, Egynte, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive have come along way since the early 2010’s when the two original innovators, Dropbox and Box, were just cloud storage with some nifty partial syncing. Today, they have taken center stage and are now considered
Much has been discussed about Blockchain and Data Security and their significant impact to come. Much of my interest has been towards how to provide more authenticity to transactions and secure the history of content/data – to a forensic level if required for certain types of data (and who doesn’t
The value of Bitcoin virtual currency just hit a new all-time high, and with it an increasing number of malware threats are targeting users to “borrow” their PC’s CPU for use in mining the precious cryptocurrency, something we last wrote about in October here. Once executed, a significant spike in
Chris sat down with Intralinks to talk about artificial intelligence and machine learning in M&A.
In this interview, Cyren botnet expert Geffen Tzur explains how botnets work and gives a view from the trenches on successes and challenges in fighting botnet cybercrime. What defines a botnet? Doesn’t all malware “phone home”? A botnet is defined as a network of infected computers set up to perform
Successful phishing attacks are all over the news and a top concern for IT managers, but how do you make the business case for adding more advanced email and web security? In a new report, security industry analyst Derek Brink of the Aberdeen Group has crunched the numbers and put
Überall wird über erfolgreiche Phishing-Angriffe berichtet. Diese stellen eine der größten Sorgen für IT-Manager dar – wie aber lässt sich der wirtschaftliche Nutzen einer zusätzlichen, fortschrittlicheren E-Mail- und Web-Security verdeutlichen? In einem neuen Bericht hat der Analyst der Security-Branche, Derek Brink von der Aberdeen Group, die Zahlen zusammengestellt und die
Do You Know the New PII Rights under GDPR? What is your current address? What was the yearly salary of your last position? What is your Social Security (national insurance) number? Consider how many PII (personally identifiable information) questions your organization asks for background checks of individuals being vetted as
13.3 million Scarab ransomware emails detected in one day The new Scarab ransomware being distributed via email by the Necurs botnet appears to come from scanning devices or services like HP, Epson or Lexmark. While there are similarities to the Necurs-distributed Locky ransomware, Scarab seems to have been developed by
