Maj. Gen. Stephen Fogarty was selected to head U.S. Army Cyber Command taking over for Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone who was tapped to become the new director of the National Security Agency.
A recent Accenture Security survey of 4,600 infosec professionals at large commercial enterprises and government entities found that 87 percent of targeted attacks over the last year were successfully repelled by these organizations -- an improvement over 70 percent the previous year.
World Password Day may not have the same level of prominence as say Groundhog Day, but cybersecurity experts believe dedicating a day to relay the importance of having strong and diverse passwords is of paramount importance.
Data breaches stemming from misconfigured cloud-based storage servers are utterly preventable, and it's up to the security community to educate organizations about tools that are readily available to scan for such mistakes, according to Mark Nunnikhoven, Trend Micro's VP of cloud research.
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