Author: Anthony Lim

Machine learning (ML) has brought us self-driving cars, machine vision, speech recognition, biometric authentication and the ability to unlock the human genome. But it has also given attackers a variety of new attack surfaces and ways to wreak havoc. Machine learning applications are unlike those that came before them, making…

Cybersecurity risk management is not a purely technical or theoretical endeavor. Information security investments now inform security supply with the aim of reducing data breaches and boosting public perception. However, the demand for greater spending doesn’t necessarily equate to improved defenses. The disconnect between increased resource allocation and actual readiness…

If you work in incident response, you’ll recognize this scenario all too well: It’s Friday night and you just started the book you’ve been keen on reading for a couple of weeks when suddenly, you hear your beeper buzzing. The display reads that the security operations center (SOC) escalated a…

Just as mainframes are seeing a resurgence in usage, a recent poll revealed that multiple factors are converging to make it harder to secure the mission-critical data they contain and, increasingly, share with cloud-based systems and applications. Respondents cited new types of attacks as a top challenge and indicated that…