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Singapore Invests $22 Million To Reinforce Financial Sector Cybersecurity With Capabilities Grant In December, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) launched the Cybersecurity Capabilities Grant. The Cybersecurity Capabilities Grant is a new cybersecurity funding initiative designed to help strengthen cyber resilience in Singapore’s financial sector. The $30 million (Singapore Dollars, roughly $22 million USD) government…
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As a rule, we avoid FUD—fear, uncertainty, and doubt—in our marketing. Cybersecurity is complex and confusing enough, so we prefer to focus on the facts without relying on scare tactics—yes, even on Halloween. That said, we also feel it’s important for people to understand their risks and what they’re up against. That way, you’re informed, you…
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Technology Created a Tradeoff of Efficiency for Security in Voting In the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, amid the “hanging chads” fiasco in Florida upon which the election hinged, there was a tremendous effort to move toward voting automation to mitigate the perceived drawbacks of what was deemed antiquated paper ballots and/or mechanical/lever machine…
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Market Intelligence Firm, IDC, Profiles Infocyte’s Managed Threat Hunting, and Lightweight Incident Response Services International Data Corporation (IDC) has 1,100+ analysts and provides market intelligence, advisory services, and professional events in the IT, telecom, and consumer tech markets in over 110 countries worldwide. IDC publishes “Vendor Profiles” to inform people (prospects, customers, and the general public)…
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We Started our Cybersecurity Internship Program Starting a new career in cybersecurity can be overwhelming—especially if you lack hands-on experience. This is true for most people seeking a job in cybersecurity (a field with far more jobs than qualified candidates). We started our cybersecurity internship program for this very reason: to give professionals entering the…
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Infocyte HUNT version 3.1, Available for Upgrade While finalizing our major 3.0 release this summer, we met with several partners and customers to discuss design changes to our reporting in Infocyte HUNT. We wanted to understand how to best present the three core elements of Infocyte’s threat hunting platform: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Assets (Hosts and Applications).…
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HUNT 3.0 We are very excited to announce a new major release of our award-winning threat hunting software, Infocyte HUNT. This 3.0 release expands on our foundation of threat hunting by bringing together capabilities to assess all three of the most important aspects of cybersecurity risk: vulnerabilities, assets, and threats. Vulnerabilities Vulnerability scanning is a…
Read More » The number of long-term hacks being uncovered continues to rise unabated, resulting in millions in financial losses, theft of intellectual property, and/or exposure of customer information. With the threat of undetected compromises and stealthy zero-day attacks breaking through even the best controls, cyber risk managers require more than what is being offered by legacy assessment solutions (which typically only address vulnerabilities or configuration management).
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We have all enjoyed the personalized experiences that software platforms are providing as they learn more about us, but with this data comes a high burden to protect it. We are seeing the implications of this manifested in broken trust with Facebook and Equifax. Cybersecurity and privacy standards are also confronting organizations today as they race to comply with the May deadlines of GDPR. What is the U.S. doing in parallel to keep up?
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Last week, Applebee’s announced it was the victim a Point of Sale (PoS) malware attack, warning customers in 15 states that their PII and credit card information was at risk. The attack is reported to have impacted 167 POS systems in the states of Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wyoming.
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