Cybersecurity and digital privacy

Three cybersecurity investments to target.

The average cost of a data breach reached $4.35 million in 2022, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report in 2022.

Most executives think they’re security conscious—they change their passwords and shred important documents and so forth. But what rarely crosses their minds, says espionage expert H. Keith Melton, is that cloak-and-dagger types really are after their valuables. Just because you’re not paranoid, he observes, doesn’t mean they’re not following you. Melton, the author of Ultimate […]

How two professors built a myth that persisted for a decade

A roundup of the latest thinking

Flag risks before they become a problem.

Simple changes to employee training can improve results. Plus: How to push past an ultimatum, the case for acquiring during a downturn, a vote for generalists,...

With cyberattacks soaring, corporations must step up efforts to protect their IT networks. Most firms could learn from the U.S. military, which has been...

The consequences of weak security are about to go way beyond bad PR.

A couple of relatively simple changes can improve your experience.

They lack the expertise to ask the right questions.

Everyone needs to take action.

To shore up security, you need to encourage practices your employees will actually use.

It promises to shift liability onto private firms and create incentives to defend against critical vulnerabilities.

When a mobile-payment company is hacked, business slips. The board believes that having someone publicly take the fall will stabilize the situation, but...

The private sector can't handle this on its own.

Make yourself a harder target.

Securities could help give insurers the breathing room they need to keep growing - and meet customers' mounting needs.

What you need to know about the internet’s seedy underbelly.