Most organizations recognize the dangers posed by weak passwords and have implemented policies requiring users to follow password best practices. Enforcing those policies can be a challenge, however. Faced with a mind-boggling number of passwords to remember, users tend to use the same credentials for most or all applications, or simplify passwords to the point that they’re easy to...

In our last post, we discussed the importance of incident response in minimizing the cost of a data breach. Costs rise the longer it takes to identify a security event and mitigate the damage. An incident response plan creates a detailed process that speeds detection and resolution. Identification of an incident is not as straightforward as you might think....