Written by Breton Chan, Privasec’s Marketing Executive
“Cyber security is a confluence between technology, process and people – with adequate and accurate education of an organisation’s people possibly being the most important facet.”
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Written by Breton Chan, Privasec’s Marketing ExecutiveHow prepared is your business for upcoming challenges in the digital landscape?In recent research data released by the Ponemon Institute and IBM Security, cyber crimes accounted for 18.6% of all crime in Singapore. The average cost of a data breach per organisation in the ASEAN bloc sits
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Data breaches are rampant in the world of business today. Hardly a week goes by without a reported breach or fines that range into the millions of dollars. This new age of security has brought about a change in the way that organisations structure their risk, and their insurance. Unfortunately for many, their over-reliance on
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Mr Builder: ‘I only had 14 days to build this web app, I don’t have time to keep up with the demands of continuous testing and security.’
Mr Breaker: ‘Your application has insufficient transport layer protection and insecure direct object references and don’t even get me started on the security misconfigurations’.
Mr Builder (Yellow) loves
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An ADC (Account Data Compromise) event occurs when a third-party attacker or a group of attackers gain unauthorised access to cardholder data that is held within an organisation in either electronic or physical form. Even though the number of ADC events may vary year by year, it takes only one ADC event to negatively impact
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As more business processes increase their reliance on data, information security is not just a technical issue anymore. The bigger question, however, is around adoption of an effective risk management framework that not only quantifies risk but also improves executive decision making.
One such structured and defensible framework is FAIR (Factor Analysis of Information Risk).
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Modern Application program interfaces (APIs) have been providing developers more options to deliver efficient products/services in minimal time. Sources such as ProgrammableWeb provides a great directory to choose from over 15,000 APIs. However, with more data comes more security concerns. Businesses use APIs to connect services and transfer data and a robust API security strategy
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Just like many other industries, the aviation industry has reaped benefits of substantial digital transformation. But with more digitalisation comes more risk. The Atlantic Council recently published a report regarding aviation cybersecurity, based on a global survey of 244 respondents. In this report, the two main sets of challenges highlighted are:
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Application control treats software as packages and places trust in them for software management, however Application Whitelisting uniquely identifies every file and application as a unique item regardless of which software it belongs to.
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Cyber-attacks are inevitable to any business. But during a cyber-attack incident, there is no time to waste. Just like a 911 call, your cyber-security partner should start providing immediate remote support upon notification to assess the gravity of the incident and work to contain it.
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