Cybercrime is a continuous global threat to many industries. The risk associated with it is forcing the firms to spend large amount of money in hiring new technologies, devices and experts to combat it. Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is the leading source of information about the cybercrime and security breaches, according to which 100,000 incidents of cybercrime have been observed across many industries this year. When a business becomes a victim of cybercrime, its employees, shareholders and customers also get affected. The major attack patterns identified by the report are: insider and privilege misuse, denial of service (DoS) attacks and web application attacks.

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There is a call for new school of cyber defense,since the perimeter security cloud cannot prevent cyber-attacks anymore. The first step is to mitigate the damage. The best way is to run a fully updated , layered  ,in depth set of security tools and educating the end users about how to falling for attack lures. Second step is to prepare for the aftermath of the attack. The approach here should be data centric. Prepare a written plan as to who to contact and what to do in case of security breach. Read more at: http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/twitter-chat-how-to-prepare-for-a-cyberattack/a/d-id/1321216

Next time while you are trying to log in and the "remember your password?" window pops up, think before hitting yes. Password managers help users sync their usernames and password so they can choose strong passwords which are hard to guess, thereby reducing the risk of hacking. But if the password manager fails, putting all the passwords in one place would be regretted since now all the accounts run a risk of security breach. Password manager stores passwords either on the user's machine or uses cloud-based security. Both could turn unsafe as the former is vulnerable to malware and in the latter case the password is sent to remote servers. To know more, read: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/17/do-we-really-want-to-keep-all-our-digital-eggs-in-one-basket

Security breaches are common in every organization. Some breaches lead to possible threat to important data. So, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) data security has become important. Jerri Ledford (Writer of Business Technology) writes in her article about common security mistakes that organizations are making. To know more, follow: : http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/insidecrm/4-common-mistakes-in-crm-security-63231