The 2013 Greater Austin Business Award finalists were announced this week, and we are excited and honored to be selected as a finalist among medium companies in the Technology sector for our Enterprise Threat Intelligence offering. We are also proud of our President and Co-Founder Joe Ross, who has also been selected as a finalist [...]
This guest blog post comes from Jasmine McNealy, Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky and privacy and law blogger at Unmasking Doe.In late January of this year HMV, a British music store franchise, laid off 190 employees. Although unfortunate, this would seem a pretty benign occurrence. Brick and mortar music stores have been disappearing [...]
The Center for Strategic and International Studies released a study estimating that cyber crime creates a $100 billion loss to the U.S. economy. Additionally, CSIS reports that as many as 508,000 jobs are lost as a result of this economic loss.Earlier reports, according to The Wall Street Journal, have estimated much higher economic loss, “as [...]
Summer is a prime time for traveling, and travelers are prime targets for identity thieves. Why? Because they typically carry more personal identifiable information with them than usual, including passports, airline tickets and extra credit cards. Additionally, people on vacation typically travel with more money in their bank accounts, making identity theft a high priority [...]
According to the PCI Compliance Guide, PCI applies to ALL organizations or merchants, regardless of size or number of transactions, that accepts, transmits, or stores any cardholder data. Said another way, if any customer of that organization ever pays the merchant directly using a credit card or debit card, then the PCI DSS requirements apply. [...]
Recent surveys from Europe and the United States show that employees spend up to 30% of their working hours on personal matters. According to Infosecurity Magazine, “all of those non-productive hours could translate to not just lost output, but actual negative equity in the form of malware attacks and hacking incidents.”Kaspersky Lab Expert Kirill Kruglov [...]
Juniper Networks Mobile Threat Center released their third annual mobile threats report, which found an increasing presence of mobile application malware in Android devices. Compared to the 28,500 mobile malware apps detected in 2011, Juniper found a total of 276,259 mobile malware apps from March 2012 to March 2013, All Things D reported.While all mobile [...]
The digital world is the real world. Our lives are so connected with the Internet that our online personas tell the world who we are as people, as professionals and as companies. This can be great – the Internet provides an outlet for us to share who we are, connect and grow relationships – but [...]
The need for trained cyber security personnel has risen in the last five years, according to labor market analytics firm Burning Glass. Listings for cyber security positions rose 73 percent in the last five years, which is 3.5 times faster than postings for computer jobs overall. “Yet, despite the need and the job opportunities (more [...]
Take a look at what the Experian team was up to this month, including participating in community events, hosting a long-awaited webinar and breaking in the new office:Risk Mitigation for Small Business WebinarIn honor of Small Business week, we hosted a free webinar exploring how cyber security affects small businesses. Small business experts Michael Kaiser, [...]
