Chief Cybersecurity Officer
Today’s highly automated and connected smart factories (Industry 4.0) were born out of yesterday’s steam engines that mechanized manufacturing (Industry 1.0); mass-production lines expanded with the advent of electricity (Industry 2.0); and then IT-enabled manufacturing plants ushered in the era of connected industrial control systems with programmable logic controllers (PLC). While enterprises struggle to enhance…
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The WannaCry outbreak that reportedly raked in US$1B in damage costs also forced doctors to cancel scheduled appointments, among other things, brought on warranted concern over pervasive ransomware attacks that could stem from oft-overlooked components of healthcare networks—exposed medical cyber assets and third-party partners. It’s a well-known fact that advances in medical technology and information…
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Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is getting harder every day. According to the World Economic Forum‘s 2018 Global Risks Perception Survey, cyber attacks and data theft are 3 and 4 respectively of the top 5 likely risks organizations will face this year. This is not surprising, in 2017 CISOs the world over faced crippling ransomware attacks,…
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This last week of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), we focus on critical infrastructure (CI). For many years now we have discussed and seen the result of poorly designed and protected control system networks. I wrote on this very topic back in 2016. Now the threat landscape has evolved further and the attack surface…
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Trend Micro and Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) today released a publicly available report on the ATM malware landscape. This builds on the 2016 report that was privately released to financial institutions and law enforcement agencies globally. The report digs into the depth and breadth of malware targeting ATMs, as well as the perpetrators behind…
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Healthcare organizations (HCOs) are not immune to large-scale cyberattacks, as evident by the most recent attacks WannaCry and Petya. In fact, HCOs are an attractive target for hackers because of the immense amount of personally identifiable information housed in their systems. The industry is widely known for having a broad spectrum of cybersecurity maturity, from…
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As we predicted in 2016, cyberpropaganda is a major growth area for cybercriminals. Per that prediction, “The rise in the Internet penetration has opened the opportunity for invested parties to use the Internet as a free-for-all tool to influence public opinion to go one way or another.” Today, we know this through Wikileaks and self-proclaimed…
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At Trend Micro we work hard every day to reduce the risk posed by cyber attacks from hacktavists, transnational cybercriminals, and cyber espionage groups. Nowhere is this more pertinent than in the healthcare industry, where everything from data breaches to ransomware attacks impacting medical devices could have a serious impact on patient care. This is…
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Last week, The White House released its long awaited Executive Order (EO), Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure, ironically enough during the same week we experienced the largest single ransomware attack that, by some estimates, has affected more than 200,000 victims across 150 countries. My intentions were to highlight the EO in…
Read More From cash-hungry hackers to state-sponsored spies and careless insiders, there’s no shortage of cyber threats facing healthcare organizations (HCOs) today. At Trend Micro, we’ve been protecting organizations operating in the industry for years, but the challenges facing these customers show no signs of abating. In fact, figures from the US Department of Health and Human…
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