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A Chief Security Concern for Executive Teams

Krebs on Security

“Marketing and digital strategy roles drive top line revenue for firms—the latter is particularly important in retail and banking businesses as so much commerce moves online,” Conroy said. Source: Accenture. “Some companies are even moving the cybersecurity function to report up through the CFO,” Knight said.

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Global Scamdemic: Scams Become Number One Online Crime

Security Affairs

Insurance companies around the world are now suffering from phishing. Over the past year, an average of over 100 phishing websites were created per insurer. In 2020, a multi-stage scam called Rabbit Hole targeted companies’ brands, primarily retail and online services.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

Some 27 percent of IT professionals who partook in a survey conducted by next-gen firewall supplier Imperva at RSA 2018 reported receiving more than 1 million security alerts daily. In many cases the tedious, first-level correlating of SIEM logs to sift out threats has moved beyond human capability. Sutton: Syncurity has several innovations.

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8 Ways to Protect Yourself against Scams on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Adam Levin

A BBB survey conducted in August found that the majority of these scammed consumers made purchases for which they never received products. “Of Don’t click that link… According to the BBB survey, emails wasn’t the most common way scammers pilfered people’s pockets, but it does still happen. On top of that, 80.5%

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Collibra Catalog leads the field in Dresner’s market survey

Collibra

Dresner surveyed nearly 800 business intelligence (BI) professionals to examine customer preferences, customer investment and vendor performance in the data catalog space. 47% of Dresner’s survey respondents indicated that they have difficulty accessing data, but simply locating data is only part of the challenge.

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Self-service checkouts - love them or hate them, its all about the customer

ChiefTech

Self-service checkouts in supermarkets and other retails shop fronts are fascinating on so many levels - from their design to the ethical dilemma of replacing people with machines. At Coles, 40% of their transactions are through self-service checkouts and in the UK, 63% of a survey of 5,000 shoppers said they like using self-service.

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

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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