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Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware? Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials

Elie

In this paper, we present the first longitudinal measurement study of the underground ecosystem fueling credential theft and assess the risk it poses to millions of users. Over the course of March, 2016–March, 2017, we identify 788,000 potential victims of off-theshelf keyloggers; 12.4

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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Related: Atrium Health breach highlights third-party risks. Third-party cyber risks are likely to persist at the current scale for a while longer. According to a recent Ponemon Institute study , some 59% of companies experienced a third-party data breach in 2018, yet only 16% believe they are effectively mitigating third-party risk.

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NHS is still assessing the cost of WannaCry one year later

Security Affairs

The report includes a case study related a “large NHS mental health trust” that was protected with Advanced Threat Protection that allowed to repeal a phishing email attack with a weaponized excel spreadsheet attachment. a variety of security risks and threats across the organization.

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Sophie Sayer on the IT Governance Partner Programme

IT Governance

The benefits of partnering with us, and our partner-exclusive event IT Governance launched its partner programme in 2017, which now includes more than 400 organisations. We are the market leader in data privacy and cyber security risk management solutions, so it makes sense to partner with us.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Book reviews: a call to arms for open licensing

CILIP

Nearly all the case studies in the second half of the book are UK-based and most deal with digitisation projects; the two exceptions are the accounts from the British Library (open metadata) and the University of Edinburgh (open educational resources). London: Facet Publishing, 2017. Louise Ashton. British Library. Published: ?

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Why the cyber security skills gap is so damaging

IT Governance

In many cases, employees’ time and resources are spread so thinly that the quality of the work suffers. Employees often say that they spend too much time on incident response and not enough on planning ways to prevent incidents from recurring and to mitigate the risk of serious incidents. Filling the skills gap.