Like the wide-eyed humans who mistakenly trust their benevolent alien overlords in Arthur C. Clarke’s science-fiction classic, Linux users the world over are beginning to awaken to the reality that their malware- free utopian childhood is rapidly coming to an end. A startling increase in malware, ransomware and malicious code targeting Linux systems of all shapes and sizes since 2015 means the...

New York’s new cybersecurity law will affect organizations across the U.S. And its stringent requirements set a high standard for cybersecurity and data protection. In this guide, you’ll learn how this law reaches organizations beyond New York’s borders and why many other states are expected to follow suit. The guide features an easy-to-follow breakdown of the law’s most important requirements and...

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to every organization that processes credit or debit card information. This includes merchants and third-party service providers that store, process, or transmit credit card data. The launch of PCI DSS helped expose serious security shortcomings, failures to follow security best practices, and a general lack of awareness of the...