The cyber attacks on banking and finance industry are increasing. We have witnessed the hacking of SWIFT network and payment gateways for stealing consumer data. Despite every effort of cyber security defense teams, the hackers can materialize the attacks. Just after two months of the economy crash in 2008, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ripple, Quark etc. became popular, and the backbone…
Month: May 2017
Future of (Cyber) Security Careers
In past two decades, cyber security has evolved at an accelerated rate due to advancements in technology and ever- expanding Internet. Thanks to hackers, without them cybersecurity industry might not have existed. You will wonder before the internet era security was only limited to system administrative passwords. The Antivirus solution was born only after the first Virus attack in 1981 “Elk Virus”, which…
Artificial Intelligence and Changing Face of Cybersecurity
The cybersecurity attacks are evolved from wild predator-prey chase to well-designed targeted attacks which are creating significant financial and reputational damages to businesses and government. Identification of these attacks is becoming very difficult for the cybersecurity defense teams as the signs of these attacks are very subtle. Hacker are using disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning to…
Top 5 CISO Challenges
Cyber security attacks have evolved from nerdy kid’s ego satisfaction acts to serious cyber crimes like ransomware. Also, the ever-growing use of mobility and IoT devices to perform business activities is spreading the attack vector drastically.