Dark Reading Daily -- August 21, 2021

How 5 Years of DEF CON's Voting Village Has Shaped Election Security

The hands-on and at times controversial live-hacking event now has a broader mission: year-round, open testing of election systems.

9 Tips for Hiring (and Keeping) Top Security Talent

Demand for security professionals continues to skyrocket. Here’s what organizations need to do to give themselves an edge in hiring and retaining the best talent out there.

NIST Misses Opportunity With New 'Minimum Standard' for Software Security Testing

The agency's response to President Biden's executive order creates serious, unresolved questions across the required techniques.

7 Steps to a More Secure Social Media Policy

Social media accounts must be viewed as part of the IT and security infrastructure. Follow these tips for developing a workable social media security program at your company.

After Ransomware, Enterprises Most Worried About Phishing Attacks Post-Pandemic

While two-thirds of enterprises surveyed for Dark Reading and Omdia’s "2021 Enterprise Security in a Post-Pandemic World" report indicated cited ransomware as their top concern, more than half are also worried about new phishing attacks as attackers ramp up their activities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Why Security Services Are the M&A Trend to Watch

Non-security-specific organizations are among those rushing to take advantage of growing enterprise demand for a wide range of service capabilities.

How Effective UX Can Beat Security Bypass Culture

Provide a subpar user experience and you can be sure employees will find a way to work around it. That, of course, can easily undermine a business' security and potentially threaten its longevity.

Presenting the 2021 PWNIE Award Winners

The list of 2021 PWNIE Award winners includes security researchers behind some of the biggest vulnerabilities discoveries over the past year.

EDITORS' CHOICE

10 Mistakes Businesses Make During Ransomware Response

Hit by ransomware? These missteps can take a bad scenario and make it even worse.

How Do I Let Go of 'Human Error' as an Explanation for Incidents?

Successfully learning from incidents requires a deeper and more expansive perspective of them.

FROM THE NEWS DESK

Security Vendors Sound the Alarm on LockBit Ransomware's Return

Threat group claims version 2.0 of malware can encrypt 100 gigabytes of data twice as fast as its rivals.

The State of Cybersecurity Incident Response