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Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2017
US Oil and Gas Industry unprepared to mitigate risks in operational technology (OT) environments

A study commissioned by Siemens revealed that US oil and gas industry is unprepared to mitigate cybersecurity risks in operational technology environments. A new study commissioned by the engineering firm Siemens revealed that oil and gas industry in the United States is largely unprepared to mitigate cybersecurity risks in operational technology (OT) environments. The survey was conducted […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2014
Cost of cybercrime continues to increase for US companies

The Ponemon Institute as published its fifth report on the cost of cybercrime which provides interesting data on impact on the US companies. Which is the cost of cybercrime suffered by US companies? The fifth annual report published by the Ponemon Institute and titled “2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cyber Crime” reveals that cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2014
Ponemon study – SQL Injection attacks too dangerous for organizations

A new study conducted by the Ponemon Institute reveals the impact of successfully SQL injection attacks on organizations during the last year. The Ponemon Institute published a new study titled “The SQL Injection Threat Study“ to understand the reply of organizations to the SQL injection threat. The study is sponsored by DB Networks, its Chairman and CEO Brett Helm used the following […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2013
The cybercrime ecosystem, resources,motivations and methods

Information provided by the results of principal researches on the cybercrime reveals resources,motivations and methods and cost illegal operations. Fortinet has published early 2013 the Fortinet’s 2013 cybercrime report, an interesting study on cybercriminal ecosystem, identifying the operations, the motivations, the methods, the resource used and countermeasure adoptable to mitigate the cyber threats As demonstrated […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2012
Ponemon statistics 2012 on cost of cybercrime

At the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) event “Cybersecurity and American power,” Gen. K.B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and chief at the Central Security Service (CSS), defined cybercrime “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.” alerting Government on the emergency related to intellectual property theft due cyber espionage. “Symantec placed the cost of […]