2020 has been a quite the year for headline-grabbing data breaches thanks to a combination of record-breaking numbers and behind-the-hack tales. Despite huge investments in security tools and awareness, organisations of all sizes have struggled to fully protect their data from cyber criminals.

In the recently released 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateways (SWG) report, Netskope was recognized as a visionary, entering a decades-old legacy security solution area first defined by proxy cache appliances. Times have changed since human rating labs, regional web filtering lists, the use of ICAP for threat and data protection of files, web object caching, bandwidth management, and scripting policies to filter out undesired web objects.

Are you fascinated with cryptography? You're not alone: a lot of engineers are. Occasionally, some of them decide to go as far as to write their own custom cryptographic hash functions and use them in real-world applications. While understandably enticing, doing so breaks the number 1 rule of the security community: don't write your own crypto. How do hashing algorithms work and what's special about password hashing? What does it take for an algorithm to get ready for widespread production use?

On December 11, 2017, Platinum Edge Media and its founder CJ Thompson created National App Day as a way to celebrate how apps have inspired us and changed our culture. The Registrar at National Day Calendar went on to proclaim National App Day to be observed annually. We can’t truly appreciate the impact that apps have on our lives without an idea of how to use these programs securely.

ISO 27001 is an international standard that focuses on information security. This standard guides the establishment, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of an information security management system (ISMS).