insider threats Tag

data breach

31 Mar Prior to the data breach . . . insider threats for TCC?

Earlier this month, more than 3000 current and former employees of Tidewater Community College (TCC) were leaked in a sophisticated phishing scam. The unknown hacker gained access to TCC employee data via sending a phishing email to another TCC employee with a request for 2015 W-2 data. The data breach occurred on March 2 when a finance department employee responded to...

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insider threats trend du jour

24 Mar Trend du jour: Insider threats — Are you next?

We've all heard that users can be a companies weakest link—whether deliberate or through negligence—employees (and ex-employees) are increasingly creating security risks within their organizations. With insider threats rapidly becoming the trend du jour—companies need to amp up vigilance. You also have to consider ex-insiders who may go rogue. In the recent Ofcom breach, an ex-employee went rogue and handed over approximately six...

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Guy Eisenkot Fortscale 2.5 release

08 Mar Fortscale 2.5 – Generic Data Source Framework

In today’s blog, we’ll be talking briefly about a key new feature of Fortscale’s brand new 2.5 release–the Generic Data Source Framework, or GDS Framework. I just had a conversation with Guy Eisenkot, Product Manager for Fortscale where we discussed this new capability and I found it very enlightening. Here’s a transcript of our conversation. Bill: “So Guy, this new release...

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Fortscale Partners with FireEye's Cyber Security Coalition CSC

29 Feb Fortscale at RSA: From Innovation Sandbox to UBA Market Leaders

It’s that time of the year again… RSA Conference 2016 is here and Fortscale is gearing up for a busy week. We’re looking to build on the momentum we created at last year’s event and make this RSA the best one yet. You might recall at RSA Conference 2015, Fortscale was the only User Behavior Analytics (UBA) company chosen to participate in...

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