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Cybersecurity is a top concern for boards of directors. In fact, 42% of the nearly 500 leaders surveyed by the National Association of Corporate Directors listed cybersecurity risks as one of the five most pressing concerns they’re facing…

There’s only one “you,” but at least there’s plenty of ways to prove you’re you. That’s especially true when using RSA SecurID Access, a smart authentication platform that offers a host of…

LogRhythm, a company focused on security intelligence, has introduced a new product that automates the process of responding to advanced network-borne threats. By combining and automating data collection…

Education is the bedrock of modern society. The life we live today in the developed world would not be possible without quantum advances in science, medicine and technology; many of them emanating from the rich…

Companies including Marriott, British Airways and Dixons Carphone are some of the high-profile names that have revealed data breaches impacting hundreds of millions of people, although it’s not yet certain whether…

It’s an intimidating prospect – being up against an opponent who knows how to hit you right where it’s going to hurt the most. Add in the element of surprise and you’re looking at a real sucker punch, one that can…

As the sheer variety of hacks and breaches over the past 12 months has shown, any organisation can fall victim to a cyber-attack that compromises their network, writes Ross Brewer, VP & MD EMEA, LogRhythm…

Technology has advanced to the point that today’s financial services organisations, such as brokers, fund managers, insurers and banks, are constantly connected. However, there is a dark side to this connectedness…

Most certifications can help your career, but a select few will land you a great job or add money to your paycheck. Here are the most bankable certifications this year, as well as a glimpse of next year’s…

Late last week, Australian security agencies reported they were looking into a security breach of the Federal Parliament’s network. The Federal Parliament has said in a statement that authorities have yet to…

As you’ll likely have seen, Facebook recently hit the ripe old age of 15. It’s hard to believe that it’s really been around for that long. Whilst Facebook was not strictly the first social media platform …

Since the European Union’s GDPR legislation came into force in May 2018, over 59,000 data breaches have been reported to European data protection authorities. This is the findings of a new report from global law…

The findings of the fourth Notifiable Data Breach Quarterly Statistics Report show that Australian organisations have much work to do to improve their security posture, according to experts…

Stolen identity is an equally dramatic real life issue that can be costly to fix and which rarely results in a happy ending. It’s a problem which has affected hundreds of Australians whose only ‘crime’ is likely…

Cybersecurity is no longer a ‘nice to have’; it’s essential. In a world where threats are becoming ever more common, organisations across all industries must be proactive about preserving the integrity of their systems and data…

It’s a case of ‘digitise or die’ for Australian retailers but doing so can see sensitive customer and corporate information exposed to new risks. According to the NAB Online Retail Sales Index, Australians spent an impressive…

Years ago, the concept of “smart homes” and advanced artificial intelligence could only be found in futuristic sci-fi movies. Today, these technologies are increasingly becoming…

Independent boarding school Wellington College has chosen LogRhythm’s NextGen SIEM Platform to boost its cyber security. The platform combines user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA), network traffic and…

Companies continue to fail to detect anomalous network activity, but it’s not often this kind of activity has been going on for so long without being flagged. At the end of November, an official statement revealed that the…

Are cyber-attacks an inevitability in the financial services industry, given the wealth of personal data – and funds – entrusted to the keeping of banks, insurers and other players in the sector?…

Chillisoft is wasting no time in taking its operations to a new level, partnering with LogRhythm as yet another vendor to complement its solution portfolio…

Virtual reality (VR) is emerging from being a niche gaming novelty. Its potential practical uses are making many industries sit up and take notice. With near-endless configuring possibilities…

Vietnet Distribution JSC is now an official distributor in Cambodia for global cybersecurity firm LogRhythm. The partnership comes at a momentous time, with the country developing its digital infrastructure and the government…

Recent events like the enactment of the GDPR and high-profile data breaches have driven compliance into the spotlight – a boon for the GRC field. And, already, 2019 is already shaping up to be an exciting year in the…

Data breaches are inevitable at any organization. But what form will those breaches take? How will the attackers gain access? What will they steal or damage? What motivates them to attempt the attacks? CSO has gathered predictions…

Data privacy took center stage in 2018. Compliance regulations surrounding protecting confidential data aren’t new – laws like HIPAA have been around for years – but GDPR got everybody’s attention. Data privacy compliance has taken a…

Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work list highlights the area’s technology and startup companies with the best benefits and salaries…

The flip side to sharing too much information is sharing too little. The point of notifying customers is to allow them to protect themselves, so share what you can in order to help…

In today’s rapidly evolving technology industry, there’s greater demand than ever for specialized skills and industry experience. But not every company is looking for the same abilities…

The personal data of some 100 million people who have used Quora, a popular question and answer website, has been compromised, the company disclosed Monday…

Mariott Hotels this morning admitted encrypted and unencrypted personal information on 500 million customers who made reservations at one of its Starwood Hotels has been copied over four years from one of its databases…

In the digital era, cyber-security is – or should be – a prime concern for Australian organisations of all stripes and sizes. The Australian Cyber Security Centre’s 2017 Threat Report notes the existence of thousands of adversaries…

With regular news stories of companies falling victim to security breaches, it can be a scary time for new tech executives. As hackers get better at attacking company networks, tech teams need to look deeper into…

Gamification has become a go-to tactic for engaging consumers and employees alike in recent years. By applying elements of typical gaming activities such as continuation streaks, point systems and rewards…

Over the past year, a new form of malware has emerged that is able to more successfully evade traditional detection and defence techniques. As a result, it is seeing increased use by…

As CISO of Boulder-based LogRhythm, James Carder designed and created a five-year road map for the company’s cybersecurity program. One milestone on that path was aligning with a “Zero Trust” model that requires…

LogRhythm is adding case playbooks and enhanced response and security operations center metrics to its NextGen SIEM platform. Some organizations might think of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technology as…

Today’s content management platforms make it easier for people to securely share ideas, collaborate and get work done better and faster. That’s the plan. But it doesn’t always succeed…

There’s no excuse for not knowing your exposure. These free tools can help you analyze what your company is up against and point ways to developing a more thorough security program…

Representatives of the IT security sector have welcomed the newly announced NSW Government Cyber Security Strategy, and urged other states to follow NSW’s example with their own integrated strategies…

Facebook security wasn’t something most of us worried about just five years ago. Most users happily went about their Facebook lives and never thought twice about…

MAS proposed to make a slew of cybersecurity measures for financial institutions (FIs) into legally binding requirements…

SINGAPORE: While the Government has issued new guidelines against indiscriminate collection of NRIC details, cybersecurity experts have highlighted a different kind of personal data threat…

One weekend in February, prominent government websites from around the world began triggering alerts in users’ anti-virus. State government…

Organizations need to detect security events early in the kill chain in order to deflect attackers, says Matthew Winter of LogRhythm…

The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing technology have brought equal parts excitement and trepidation to the…

Week after week media outlets spout out news about large companies failing to disclose old breaches, suffering current security breaches or refusing to…

Following the most serious breach of personal data in Singapore’s history, the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group (SNDGG), together with the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), has completed a…

Social media site Reddit has admitted to suffering a data breach stemming from a hack last June but has refused to disclose its scale…

The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing technology have brought equal parts excitement and trepidation to the…

The cyberattack on SingHealth is likely to have been state-sponsored, given the type of data that was taken and the amount of resources required to mount such a breach, cybersecurity experts said…..

Singapore’s government health database has been hacked and the personal information of about 1.5 million people has been stolen, including that of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong….

LogRhythm has signed an agreement with Singapore-based M.Tech for the distribution of its cyber security solutions across Asia Pacific…

The Ticketmaster UK ‘breach’ is far more extensive than at first thought — part of a single operation by a threat group affecting over 800 e-commerce sites around the globe, according to new intelligence….

Timehop has admitted it is at the centre of a large data breach after it reported that the data from 21 million users had been stolen on 4 July….

Ticketmaster UK is alerting its customers to a third-party security incident that may have compromised their information…

Tesla’s recent revelation that an employee turned saboteur messed with code and exfiltrated data underscores the continuing challenge and complexity of insider threats and the difficulty ferreting them out before they can do harm…

Dixons Carphone, a household name in the UK, announced (PDF) today that it is investigating “unauthorised access to certain data held by the company.”…

If your organization is like most, you may be freaking out about the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement date of May 25, 2018…

Reverse engineering malware is a job that’s never the same from one day to the next – much like the evolution of malware itself. Even when it’s malware from a variant that already exists…

A survey of 751 IT decision-makers in the U.S., U.K. and Asia-Pacific by security company LogRhythm found one-third said they spend 10% or less of their IT budget on security…

Detection and remediation capabilities still need work at most organizations. Less than half of all organizations in a benchmark survey from LogRhythm were able to detect…

LogRhythm has just released its annual benchmark survey, Cybersecurity: Perceptions & Practices, which measures cybersecurity perceptions and practices of organizations in the United States…

The New Paper reporters downloaded archives of their personal data from the two companies and found, among other things…

Read up on information security challenges in the cloud, GDPR’s dark side, securing CNI and millennials in the workforce…

Earlier this week, four major Singapore universities said they were victims of cyber attacks, highlighting the need for Southeast Asian tertiary institutions to ramp up preventative measures…

Consider Volvo’s self-driving cars, Apple’s Siri, OCBC’s illegal financing detection system, and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore’s Project SAFER – today we’ve been seeing more of artificial intelligence (AI) technology…

Organisations around the globe still face a tough fight against the cyber threat battle, with new research from LogRhythm showing that fewer than half of all organisations are able to detect a ‘major’ cybersecurity incident within one hour…

Businesses understand the growing importance of protecting their company against cyber incidents such as network breaches, data thefts, and frauds. However, as hackers get more competent and find better tools to aid them in their malicious plans…

Today’s SIEM solutions offer threat detection and security incident response by analyzing SIM and SEM data in real time for internal and external threat management. By analyzing historical data from compliance reporting and incident investigation, SIEM solutions…

Machine vs machine. That’s the future battleground in cybersecurity. It is a scary thought but the perception that hackers are just people sitting behind the computers is no longer true…

The Internet of Things (IoT) might be a current hot topic in technology circles, yet linking electronic devices to improve efficiency and automate processes is not exactly a new concept…

Ross Brewer, vice president and managing director EMEA, LogRhythm, covers how organisations can use User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) to detect threats…

Implementing a Zero Trust model to protect your enterprise’s critical systems could be worth the trouble…

LogRhythm is dipping its toes into the User and Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) market for organisations that aren’t able to replace their existing legacy solutions - and to protect against insider threats, account takeovers, as well as privilege abuse and misuse…

With many users still clueless about the existence of ransomware and companies struggling to change their behaviour, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining currency as a solution to user indifference and a driver for more proactive defences in the future…

Apple has admitted that every iPhone and Mac computer is affected by the Meltdown and Spectre chip vulnerabilities, which security researchers say…

A serious flaw reportedly present in all Intel’s CPUs made in the past 10 years is leaving devices vulnerable to hackers, security experts have warned…

Though we will come to characterize 2017 with many words and many concepts over the coming months, this year will probably be remembered as the year when warfare came to the cyber sphere in earnest…

The majority of IT decision-makers think the average cybersecurity professional wastes as much as 10 hours a week due to inadequate software…

In this guest post, Ross Brewer, managing director and vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa at cybersecurity software supplier LogRhythm, makes the enterprise case for using artificial intelligence (AI) in the fight against cybercrime…

Enterprise Security Weekly podcast covers the release of LogRhythm AI Cloud…

LogRhythm today introduced CloudAI a technology designed to help LogRhythm customers across the globe avoid damaging cyber incidents such as high-profile data breaches. CloudAI is an advanced cloud-based security analytics offering…

Ransomware is one of the fastest-growing concerns among IT pros, according to several studies out this week…

SIEMs are considered an important tool for incident response, yet a large swath of users find seven major problems when working with SIEMs…

Boulder-based LogRhythm is on a roll. Since its 2003 founding, the company has melded multiple technologies into a user-friendly platform that detects and responds to cyber threats and attacks…

A cyber gang calling itself The Dark Overlord Solution late last week sent an unusually threatening ransom note to the Columbia Falls school district forcing officials to shutter its schools to ensure the safety of the students…

Nearly half of all Americans are affected by a cyber security breach at Equifax, one of the nation’s three major credit-reporting agencies. Here’s how to avoid being a victim…

Good information-security personnel have become harder and harder to find – and that is making it harder to mount an effective defence against ballooning volumes of security alerts…

What the hack happened is unclear, but best to live like your personal data was stolen…

During the dot-com boom of the 90s, Chris Petersen could see that increased demand for cybersecurity was on the horizon. So, too, was the need for security analysts to detect and respond to threats rapidly…

In response to the shortcomings of prevention-centric security strategies and the challenges of securing an increasingly complex and open IT environment, many organizations should be shifting their resources and focusing towards strategies centered on threat detection and response…

The hackers behind the recent breach at HBO have posted additional stolen data online, including Game of Thrones script summaries and several emails from an HBO executive’s inbox, according to the Hollywood Reporter…

How better to fight cybercrime than with today’s top cyber technology, AI; fighting fire with fire. Ross Brewer, Vice President and Managing Director at LogRhythm explains the ins and outs of artificial intelligence…

Under an (NIS) directive being adopted by the UK, CNI providers will face fines of £17 million or up to four percent of annual turnover if they fail to protect critical infrastructure from loss of services due to cyber-attacks…

Cybersecurity executives are speculating the HBO hack by “Mr. Smith” was the result of the intruder putting in a tremendous amount of effort to infiltrate the entertainment giant…

Entertainment Weekly reported that hackers claimed to have taken 1.5TB of data from HBO…

Madam Ivy Lim, who landed her new job in March, has lost no time in becoming software firm LogRhythm’s best-performing telesales employee in the region…

Victims of damaging cyber breaches make the news every week – don’t become one of them…

Attacks on critical national infrastructure such as power grids, communication networks and the banking sector have massive implications for any country. Disruption to public services, hits to the economy and even loss of life are all potential scenarios…

LogRhythm has clinched the 2017 Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific Enterprise Security Product Line Strategy Leadership Award…

Though the AA’s shop was reportedly leaking payment card data, the motoring association did not alert customers…

Another devastating ransomware attack has caused havoc worldwide, with security experts again warning SMEs they are a primary target…

Chris Brazdziunas, vice president of products at security intelligence company LogRhythum, discusses women in technology with Silicon…

In late June another ransomware virus, named Petya, similar to the recent WannaCry attack, spread across the globe, affecting many countries…

Security experts say that a digital “vaccine” can protect individual computers from the crippling Petya ransomware…

Last week, it was revealed that two lists of stolen credentials had been put up for sale or were being traded on Russian-speaking hacking sites…

As enterprise IT infrastructures become increasingly complex, reducing mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-respond metrics have become top priorities for every security team…

Four organizations share real-world insights into staffing a successful AI effort from the ground up…

Data protection is vital to any company’s trusted relationship with both customers and suppliers…

For travelers, concerns about digital privacy are on the rise…

The University of Massachusetts implements a centralized network security system and offers it as a managed service to other schools and businesses…

The identity and access management service OneLogin, which uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store customer data, recently announced that an attacker had…

It may have sent European businesses scrambling and the security community abuzz, but the WannaCry ransomware attack’s fizzling in the United States and Australia means its legacy will be…

It may have sent European businesses scrambling and the security community abuzz, but the WannaCry ransomware attack’s fizzling in the United States and Australia means its legacy will be mostly as a cautionary tale…

China’s new cybersecurity law went into effect on June 1, subjecting companies to stringent data privacy and protection guidelines, even as key questions linger…

China’s new cybersecurity law takes effect today, and experts are rattled about what it all means…

The law has been largely touted by Beijing as a milestone in data privacy regulations, but critics say authorities haven’t provided enough information about how the wide-reaching law will be implemented…

Today marks exactly 12 months until the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect. With just a year to go, it’s now imperative that…

Internet security at Mar-a-Lago – the private club President Trump owns and has dubbed the “Southern White House” – is weak, ProPublica and Gizmodo reported Wednesday, based on their recent joint investigation…

The high profile global ransomware attack at the end of last week should get the phones ringing as customers turn to resellers for advice about security and getting off outdated operating systems…

Security experts have urged manufacturing companies to rapidly update ageing control systems following the WannaCry cyber attack, as concerns remain that another attack is imminent…

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a long-anticipated executive order calling for the federal government to ramp up its cybersecurity measures…

US President Trump yesterday signed his long-anticipated Executive Order on cyber security. Its sections address…

Kiwi network and system integrator NSP is gearing up to launch a new security-as-a-service offering, taking LogRhythm’s security information and event management technology into the SMB market…

LogRhythm’s latest cyber resiliency report casts a damning look into the state of Asia Pacific organizations in Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia…

The current climate surrounding visas, immigrants and international travel will change the way some tech companies operate, and may harm US cybersecurity…

View the CSO Perspectives Roadshow interview between Bill Taylor, Vice President & General Manager APJ of LogRhythm and CSO’s Anthony Caruana…

18 security professionals share the most important sources of threat intelligence for security teams today…

Andy Grolnick, president and CEO of LogRhythm, talks about his top cybersecurity predictions this year…

New research released by LogRhythm Labs offers details behind the malware campaign commonly referred to as OilRig…

The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) today informed users of a breach that may have affected up to 43,000 customers…

Norman Shaw looks at what the latest reports are signaling about the state of readiness for the GDPR, and the role of the ICO…

Boulder, Colorado-based security company LogRhythm has developed a software platform that collects, organizes, manages, and analyzes millions to hundreds of millions of pieces of log data…

In response to the shortcomings of prevention-centric security strategies, and the challenges of securing an increasingly complex IT environment, organizations…

Organizations have long sought to reduce their data breach detection time and increase their ability to mitigate breaches more quickly…

One of the biggest issues is that unlike traditional bank robbers, who used to try to escape by driving their getaway cars across the state lines, modern cyber-crooks hide overseas…

Bill Smith, senior vice-president of worldwide field operations at LogRhythm, talks to Computer Weekly about the big shift in cyber security…

A survey conducted by Frost & Sullivan polled 400 IT decision makers in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore to better understand the cyber resilience of organizations in the region…

Check out these quotes from a pile of executives who share their views on how anyone can be luckier…

UK businesses are struggling to detect, prevent and respond to cyber threats, a survey of 2,000 IT professionals from companies of various sizes across 14 industry sectors has revealed…

Ransomware will continue to evolve in 2017, bringing new and diverse threats to businesses. What changes are in store?

The FBI said every hour, about 4,000 computers around the world become infected with ransomware. That’s just an estimate…

It’s December, that time of the year when many industry experts make all sorts of predictions for the year ahead. But one prophecy caught Business Insider’s eye: The whole internet will shut down for 24 hours…

Mazen Dohaji, MENA Regional Director for LogRhythm, speaks about the impact of cybersecurity attacks on a global level…

President Barack Obama on Friday indicated that the United States will retaliate against Russia for hacking emails and other material from the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign in an effort to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election…

The pioneering search and web services provider, whose home page starts more browser sessions than anybody in the world, revealed Dec. 14 that new security issues had impacted the personal data of more than 1 billion of its users…

In 2017, IT organizations aren’t just fighting hackers and malware—they’re also battling a torrent of data from their own networks…

Cyberthreat intelligence is just data if it is not actionable. We offer tips to help your team focus on relevant CTI for faster threat detection and response…

This latest version of LogRhythm’s security intelligence and analytics platform features more powerful machine analytics, embedded security automation and orchestration, and enhanced performance at scale…

Hackers are everywhere, causing ever more problems, leading many to ask: How should Donald Trump deal with cybersecurity when he becomes president on Jan. 20? It’s an issue he might have to address almost immediately…

ThirdCertainty recently spoke to LogRhythm co-founder and CTO, Chris Petersen, about the machine learning underlying SIEM detection capabilities…

Built into the operating system is a program called Windows Defender. This is Windows’ version of anti-virus software that is geared toward not only protecting against dangerous files but also dangerous behaviors…

There are two types of companies in the world: Those that know they’ve been hacked and those that don’t. But in this case, there appears to be a third: people who use e-mail…

Let’s start with obvious: strangers — especially cyber strangers. Huge red flag when they demand money…

Before taunting them, it’s important to note that they already have your phone number, name, and possibly other identifying information. This data could be used to cause real harm to you or your family, so it is ill-advised…

Security experts say that the big cyber attack that hit Twitter, Paypal, Netflix, Airbnb and dozens of other companies last week could be a precursor to a larger assault that deeply impacts American society, possibly during the holiday shopping season…

With about five billion IoT devices connected today, with growth expected to reach 25 to 38 billion over the next five years it’s clear something needs to be done to arrest the threat of billions of devices being recruited for nefarious purposes…

In a world where we increasingly live and work in giant webs of internet connectivity—our computers and phones, not to mention cameras, thermostats, garage door openers, kitchen appliances and baby monitors are all now connected to the web, often by default…

LogRhythm today announced that it has formed a worldwide resale partnership with Dell EMC. This partnership reflects a long history of collaboration between the two companies, as LogRhythm is one of Dell EMC’s largest OEM customers…

Security-specialised VAD StarLink, has signed a distribution agreement with LogRhythm, a global provider of security intelligence and analytics solutions…

According to market watcher Gartner, there will be nearly 26 billion devices on the Internet of Things by 2020. It is also predicted that over 25 percent of identified attacks in enterprises will involve IoT…

LogRhythm is showcasing its Security Intelligence and Analytics Platform at this year’s installment of GITEX…

Yahoo’s admission that a “state-sponsored actor” successfully stole account information related to 500 million of users from its computer networks in late 2014 could have serious implications for the deal between the internet firm and its future parent company, Verizon…

Yahoo officially revealed Thursday that the personal details of more than 500 million account holders were compromised as the result of a security breach being blamed by the company on government-hired hackers…

In the last five years, the majority of businesses (92%) have experienced a data breach, new research by Lloyds of London reveals. Despite this, CEOs remain unconcerned about becoming the subject of another attack in the future, IT Pro reports…

Research by Lloyds of London has revealed that 92% of businesses have experienced a data breach in the last five years, yet CEOs are not concerned this could be a sign of things to come, expressing to the insurance market…

At the recent Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit, I caught up with the company’s CMO, Mike Regan, to talk about LogRhythm’s latest security solutions…

EDBI, the investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), has taken part in a US$50 million funding round into LogRhythm, a Colorado-based security intelligence and analytics firm…

Cyber security company LogRhythm has raised $50 million from private investors after postponing plans for an initial public offering late last year, the company said on Tuesday, the latest sign of how austere the IPO market has become for some technology start-ups…

Fast-growing LogRhythm is expected to announce Tuesday that it raised another $50 million from investors to speed up its global expansion to help large companies fight cyber attacks…

SIEM is not only alive and well, it’s also being put to work by small and mid-sized firms in increasing numbers. They are seeing value in the ability to proactively monitor their growing IT infrastructures and spot threats before they can cause disruption…

Insider threats are the biggest cybersecurity threats to firms, organizations and government agencies. This is something you hear a lot at security conference keynotes and read about in data breach reports…

LogRhythm’s NetMon Freemium is featured by Network World as an intriguing new product…

The cost of cybersecurity has become a burdensome tax on business and with 1.5 million IT security jobs unfilled, US corporations are losing to sophisticated criminal gangs, said security experts at a recent event in San Francisco…

The trove of leaked Democratic National Committee emails posted to Wikileaks on July 22 has sparked concerns about malware as users access the vast trove of documents. WikiLeaks posted close to 20,000 emails and 8,000 attachments…

The annual costs of cybersecurity are doubling for some firms as huge data breaches force them to hire specialists and buy more software…

We’re focused on protecting against today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape which requires broad and deep visibility across the IT environment. LogRhythm provides profound visibility into threats and risks to which organisations are otherwise blind. Designed to help prevent breaches before they happen…

While the notion of hoisting cybercriminals upon their own petard is undeniably appealing, experts in the fields of security and technology told CNBC that “hacking back” is little more than a pipe dream…

Understanding what happens at each phase of a ransomware attack, and knowing the indicators of compromise [IOCs] to look for, increases the likelihood of being able to successfully defend against—or at least mitigate the effects of—an attack…

Security intelligence and analytics company LogRhythm has announced the opening of its new Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) headquarters in Singapore to support a growing demand for security intelligence solutions. LogRhythm opened its first office in Singapore in 2014 and has since expanded into Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Malaysia…

Ransomware had compromised the $5 billion health-care provider that operates 10 hospitals and more than 250 outpatient facilities in the Washington, D.C., region, serving thousands of patients and employing more than 30,000. While exact details were not released before Security Management’s press time, attackers hit MedStar on the morning of March 28, launching an attack that prevented certain users from logging in to its systems…

This year, we have seen a steady flow of high profile data breaches hitting the headlines. Whether the result of unknown web vulnerabilities, DDOS attacks or overall lax corporate data security policies, data breaches are becoming an everyday occurrence. In fact, it is generally agreed that no organization is safe and that hackers will get in – but they can be stopped before they cause damage…

Despite an initial rush to adopt security and information event management (SIEM) tools, complex implementations and a lack of skilled staff left many companies struggling to use SIEM effectively. That’s all set to change, however, as a new generation of SIEM tools…

The massive data breach of US retailer Target was a wakeup call for senior business executives too often disengaged with cybersecurity issues, but surging ransomware attacks are honing CxOs’ attention on the need for automated analytics tools to detect security breaches as they happen – rather than months later, or not at all…

Pulling the plug on Internet access on work computers is not uncommon in the private sector, say cyber-security experts and industry players, particularly in areas that deal with extra-sensitive information. These include the defence, financial and healthcare industries, but to varying degrees depending on the nature of the work employees do……

To guard against cyberattacks over the Internet and create a more secure working environment, the work computers of public officers will have no access to the Internet from next June. Channel NewsAsia speaks to Bill Taylor-Mountford who shares insights…

Cyber crimes cost the world up to half a trillion dollars a year and Malaysian banks are as much at risk as its global peers, says Bill Taylor-Mountford from security intelligence firm LogRhythm. He speaks to Bloomberg TV Malaysia’s Han Tan and shares how organizations in Malaysia can go beyond regulations and compliance to defend themselves against cyber threats…

Venture capital investment in cyberphysical security startups rose 78% to $228 million in 2015, and will rise to S400 million in 2016 as rapid adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) raises the threat to products such as connected cars, smart homes and future factories, according to Lux Research…

Some SMEs are are paying lip service to cyber security, opening themselves up to being just another statistic in the malicious cyber crime game. That’s according to Bill Smith, LogRhythm Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations and Bill Taylor, LogRhythm Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan…

We were curious how Colorado tech leaders got their start — from their childhood hopes to where they went to college — and it turns out, these four brought some pretty interesting lessons with them on their way to the top…

Yesterday it was announced that the European Parliament officially approved the new Global Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), unifying Europe’s multiple data protection regulations into one common law…

The final seal of approval follows successful passage through the EU Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Following four years of discussions and amendments, the GDPR is now officially EU law and will directly apply in all EU countries, replacing ageing EU and national data protection legislation…

The European Parliament has officially approved the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Strasbourg, after more than four years of negotiations. The GDPR has been in the planning since January 2012, and it aims to give citizens back control over their data in the digital age, including the right to be forgotten. It also…

After four years of work the much vaunted GDPR has been approved by the European Parliament, aiming to usher in a new age of data protection for European citizens and the companies that serve them…

Robert F Lentz continues: the reality of a cyber cold war, cyber-physical implications of the Internet of Things, baking security into systems at the earliest stages, and advice for developing economies when it comes to cyber-defense, including sharing how LogRhythm’s advanced data analytics engine is going to revolutionize the field and why it’s all about speed of detection and speed of response…

Understanding security intelligence has never been more critical as disruptive technologies have not only changed the way companies operate and strategize, but have given rise to more sophisticated threats to the security of enterprise networks and data…

Security Intelligence Management (SIM) can even the playing field between IT and cybersecurity attackers. Here’s how one of the leaders in the space offers a real-time battle strategy…

The recent surge in ransomware attacks on hospitals has at least one member of Congress contemplating whether HIPAA’s breach notification requirements need to be clarified or updated to reflect the trend…

A March 28 cyberattack that may have involved ransomware forced MedStar Health, a 10-hospital system serving Maryland and the Washington, D.C. area, to shut down many of its systems to avoid the spread of the malware…

The buzzword in 2015 was cyber threat intelligence (CTI) - everyone wanted useful data and analytical tools for next-gen cyber security to detect and respond to threats faster. The industry responded by providing a plethora of CTI products. Matt Willems, a four-year Labs Engineer at LogRhythm, has written a good overview of CTI and SIEM…

Fast-growing cybersecurity firm LogRhythm Inc. is adding more real estate in Boulder, with another 50 employees expected to come onboard locally this year…

The media regulator Ofcom has been forced to tell broadcasters that one of its former employees stole a considerable amount of confidential market information from its database and passed it on to his new employer…

Ofcom has admitted that a former employee stole data from the regulator exposing commercially sensitive information about the UK’s biggest TV companies…

UK organizations are putting their reputation, customer trust and competitive advantage at greater risk by failing to provide their staff with effective security awareness and capability to defend against cyber attacks…

The news landed like a record scratch Thursday, when security industry heavyweights gathered at the RSA conference in San Francisco heard Amazon plans to stop protecting the data customers store on its tablets and other devices with a technology called encryption…

Research from the Institute of Directors (IoD) and Barclays says that only 43 percent of the nearly 1,000 IoD members polled know where their data is physically stored. The research said, “This is a truly frightening statistic. It effectively means businesses are losing control of their organisation’s data which may well be the biggest asset of a business.” One fourth of the respondents…

Lockheed Martin will work with LogRhythm on cybersecurity systems integration pilot programs after the latter signed up for the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance…

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced the addition of LogRhythm, a leader in security intelligence and analytics, to the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. Alliance members collaborate to solve growing cybersecurity needs and meet future threats through customer-focused solution design, experiments, and end-to-end systems integration pilots…

Cybersecurity experts worry that the $17,000 a Los Angeles hospital paid hackers to regain control of its computers could signal a troubling escalation of the growing ransomware threat…

Critical infrastructure like power grids and water supplies has been the target of many theoretical cyber-attacks by academics and white hat hackers for years now, but with the recent shutdown of a power plant in Ukraine by hackers, this threat has now crossed from white-paper territory and into the real world…

A catastrophic flaw in one of the Internet’s core building blocks may bring a huge amount of apps and hardware devices vulnerable to attacks, according to researchers. A function performing domain-name lookups called getaddrinfo(), contains a buffer overflow bug that allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code. It can be exploited…

When it comes to a cyber-attack, it is no longer a question of if your company will be hacked but when. Companies from 2 to 10,000 will get hacked. There’s no question. If you think that’s bad news, then consider this…

As technology drives a revolutionary transformation in the healthcare industry buoyed by the latest innovations in cloud computing, analytics, Internet of Things and other disruptive tech trends, healthcare service providers, including insurers, are rapidly becoming targets of cybercriminals. In fact, the cost of healthcare data breaches could reach $5.6 billion in 2015 according to Experian’s forecast…

It was announced on January 12th by security intelligence company, LogRhythm that it has been granted the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Common Criteria Certification for its v6.3.4 SIEM platform…

With data breaches making news daily, organizations are looking for effective ways to protect their digital resources…

Certifications do matter, but an extensive list of certs with no hands-on learning to show that you can apply and utilize that knowledge won’t bode well in many interviews…

CISOs should consider and coordinate incident detection and response in five areas: hosts, networks, threat intelligence, user behavior monitoring, and process automation…

Guest post by James Carder, CISO of LogRhythm, VP of LogRhythm Labs…