IBM has announced that more than 1,000 organizations across 16 industries are participating in its X-Force Exchange threat intelligence network. The network was launched a month ago and provides open access to historical and real-time data feeds of threat intelligence in an effort to thwart cybercrime. Meanwhile, beauty products seller Sally Beauty has confirmed it’s suffered its second data breach in just over two years; a new independent report by Forrester Research discusses the ways firms are “exposing themselves to unnecessary risks” by using outdated approaches to verify employee access to data, and in ZDNet, Steve Wilson says it’s time to “turn up the heat on enterprise IT” to stop breaches from happening.
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