Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Vakulov is a cybersecurity expert focused on consumer security. The rise of Internet of Things gadgets has transformed our ...

We do what we can to protect the endpoints of our networks, but it seems like there is always a new threat or new situations to worry about. Security experts Faycal Daira and Bob Foley offer their ...

In January 2018, UK businesses were victimized 7,073,069 times. On January 3, 2018, the US Department of Homeland Security informed 247,167 of its employees that their data had been breached. It's ...

Believe it or not, best practices in network security begin with a top-down policy. Policy begins with understanding what it is you need to protect and what it is you need to protect against. The ...

Enterprise security has many components and moving parts—and it’s becoming increasingly vital that security leaders stay on top of it as risks grow. Consider this: According to a 2022 report by ...

Cisco’s SAFE Security Design and Implementation Guide is back. Cisco has given its SAFE Guide a complete makeover and brought it up-to-date with today’s threat environment. True to the legacy of the ...

It’s not breaking news that payment fraud is on the rise. According to the Association of Financial Professionals (AFP)’s latest report, nearly 75% of organizations were targets of a payments fraud ...

"We need the latest security technology in order to protect our network against sophisticated attacks." That’s a quote I’ve heard all too often, but those shiny new toys are not always the best use of ...

We all want to abide by security best practices, but who decides what is best? If something is best for one firm, it is best for all? Too often we do not take the time to analyze what we are ...

Tony Lauro, director of Security Technology & Strategy at Akamai, discusses VPNs, RDP, flat networks, BYOD and other network-security bugbears. They say the first step in addressing a serious issue is ...