Cyber Security

No material impact is being made on the volume of cyberattacks. In fact, recent estimates indicate that 97% plus of companies have suffered some form of serious cyber intrusion, and that it takes on average anywhere between 7 and 8 months to discover that an attack has occurred.

All thanks to Mr. Snowden for giving us yet another controversy. This time it is allegations that the Australian intelligence community intercepted attorney-client privileged communications between an American law firm and a foreign government.

It may come as a bit of a surprise to many people, but America is a bit of a litigious nation.  People and companies are regularly sued in America for all sorts of things.

There are forward-leaning, tech-savvy executives, and then there is the other 99% of the C-Suite.  

The demand for cybersecurity professionals is supposed to grow tremendously over the next few years.

Shares of Symantec tumbled late Thursday after the antivirus software provider announced the abrupt termination of CEO Steve Bennett.

Target says its chief technology officer will resign as the company overhauls its digital security following one of the worst credit card breaches in history, according to reports.

Given the confluence of several factors including the near-unquenchable thirst for mobile connectivity, social media and the Cloud along with the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, one of the growing pain points that we all face is cyber attacks.

A new study shows senior managers account for some of the greatest security risks because they are prone to take work, and thus security vulnerabilities, home with them.

Tech industry leaders including Alphabet's Google, Facebook, Microsoft, AT&T and more than two dozen other Internet and technology companies filed legal briefs on Thursday asking a judge to support Apple n its encryption battle with the U.S. government.

U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey told Congress on Tuesday that he understands the outcome of the San Bernardino iPhone encryption case will set a precedent for other cases.

FireEye President Kevin Mandia said the ongoing Apple-FBI encryption battle isn’t going to be easy to solve.

Apple chief Tim Cook on Wednesday said that complying with a court order to help the FBI break into an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters would be "bad for America," and set a legal precedent that would offend many Americans.

BlackBerry has acquired U.K.-based cyber security consultancy Encription, moving the company deeper into the services business.

Apple, fighting a demand by the U.S. government that it unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, has called for the creation of a government commission or panel of experts to discuss the implications of the demand.

Apple will likely seek to invoke the United States' protections of free speech as one of its key legal arguments in trying to block an order to help unlock the encrypted iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, lawyers with expertise in the subject said this week.