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Do You Know Where Your Endpoints Are? Security, risk and IT professionals are dealing with staggering amounts of endpoint-related data loss and exposure. The proliferation of mobile devices, the Cloud and the decentralization of IT / Shadow IT and IoT all amplify the chance that an endpoint will be the source of a data breach. One estimate suggests that, by 2020, the amount of data stored on devices will...

That awesome tweet pretty much summed up an engaging panel discussion on privacy and security concerns related to the Internet of Things (IoT), held last night in Vancouver. Absolute’s own Richard Henderson, Global Security Strategist, was among the “ninjas” at the event, hosted by the Vancouver Entrepreneurs Forum and Ready Room Briefings. Other panelists included Adam Shostack, Founder of Confidenza Security, Eric Winsborrow, CEO of Distrix Networks, Ryan Wilson, CTO...

The emergence of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), zero-day vulnerability exploits, and the ever-present threat posed by arguably the most dangerous of adversaries, the organization’s own users, continue to poke new holes in even the most well-laid security architectures. While the tools that attempt to keep data and other assets safe are doing their best to keep pace, malicious software, and the people behind it, continue to find ways to...

Public sector data breaches have been on the rise in 2016, hitting government agencies hard all across the globe. According to the latest breach figures in the US alone, 38% of breached records are attributed to government and military agencies, second only to healthcare for largest numbers of breached records. Although government agencies only account for 7% of total breaches, these breaches tend to be devastatingly large. A recent...

On December 14, 2016, Yahoo posted a Security Notice announcing that over 1 billion Yahoo user accounts were breached in August, 2013. This data breach is separate, although possibly linked, to the September 22, 2016 state-sponsored breach that affected 500 million people. The repercussions of this data breach are wide-reaching and promise to be long-lasting. Yahoo announced that an unauthorized third party breached the data files of 1 billion...