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Today, RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), released its inaugural  Cybersecurity Poverty Index that compiled survey results from more than 400 security professionals across 61 countries. The survey allowed participants to self-assess the maturity of their cybersecurity programs leveraging the  NIST Cybersecurity Framework  (CSF) as the measuring stick. The research provides valuable global insight into how organizations rate their overall  Cybersecurity Maturity and practices across a variety of organizational sizes, industries and geographies.  Catch the highlights via the info-graphics below :

RSA Research remains at the forefront of threat detection and cybercrime intelligence, protecting global organizations with the shutdown of over a million  cybercrime attacks. Based on its insight into cybercriminal activity, recovery of over a million actionable findings in 2014 and analysis of around 400,000 unique malware variants each week, RSA Research has identified the top cybercrime trends for 2015 Cybercrime 2015: An Inside Look at the Changing Threat Landscape from Rajesh Nambiar

The latest  Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) report , providing guidance for how organizations can enable new competitive advantages in their business by transforming outdated and inflexible processes that govern the use and protection of information assets. The report highlights key challenges, upgraded techniques and actionable recommendations that can be used to plan and build new processes to help organizations gain business advantage and more effectively manage cyber risks. In this latest report titled  Transforming Information Security: Future-Proofing Processes ,  the Council observes that business groups within organizations are taking greater ownership of information risk management; however outdated security processes are hindering business innovation and make it difficult to combat new cybersecurity risks. The Council offers guidance calling for information security teams to collaborate more closely with functional business groups to ...

RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), recently announced the results of a study conducted by the  Ponemon Institute  looking at the cost of fraud and online disruption coincident with Cyber Monday. The study surveyed 1,100 IT staff inside of retail organizations in the U.S. and UK. Some of the  key HIGHLIGHTS  are :  According to a new study by RSA and the Ponemon Institute, Cyber Monday represents an average 55 percent surge in daily online/mobile retail revenues. A corresponding surge in attacks drives hard losses, on average, as much as $500,000 per hour or $8,000 per minute. Customer churn from reputation and brand damage can drive losses to as much as $3.4 million from a single hour of disruption. While 64 percent of organizations see significant increases in attack activity, only 23 percent of attacks can be detected quickly and remediated, and nearly 70 percent of organizations do not take additional precautions in anticipation o...

The month of August marks a much anticipated return to school for both parents and students, but it appears that the subject of education is just as popular in the cybercrime underground this time of year. RSA has observed an increased supply of cybercrime courses, lessons, counseling and tutoring offered to fraudsters in rather official-looking models, mimicking the activity of legitimate schooling SENIOR FRAUDSTERS OFFER SCHOOLING FOR NEWCOMERS It has never been uncommon in the underground to see senior actors offer up advice to  newbies on how to commit fraud. More recently, seasoned criminals are even willing to  share more of their time and expertise to teach willing would-be criminals the ins and  outs of cybercrime – for a fee. RSA has been seeing an increase in ads by established criminals advertising courses they  commonly carry out via Skype videoconferencing. To add value, “teachers” are offering  interesting fraud courses, following th...

This white paper explores the current state of cybercrime and what organizations can expect in 2013. Topics include malware development, hacktivism, DDoS attacks and online account takeover. Fraud Report: The Current State of Cybercrime 2013 from EMC Academic Alliance