If you were to take a look at the cybersecurity news cycle, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s only large enterprises with expansive customer bases and budgets that are the most vulnerable to attacks. But that’s not entirely true. Even if it’s at a much smaller scale, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) still have stores of sensitive information that’s appealing to bad actors — and...

Tripwire studied confidence vs. knowledge of financial services IT security pros on seven key security controls necessary to detect a data breach. For many controls IT pros believed they had the information necessary to detect a breach quickly but provided contradictory information about the specific data.

In August of 2014, it was reported that a group of hackers had exploited a vulnerability in the websites of JPMorgan. After breaking into the company’s network, the attackers then allegedly staged additional attacks that were custom-made to JPMorgan’s servers, which gained them access to internal systems on which customer account data was stored. Several months later, investigators revealed that...