The blockchain promises to improve efficiency, but it will also require traditional risk management practices to evolve.

Cybercrimes can cause significant financial harm. And just when companies think theyve considered all the ways to mitigate cyber exposure, savvy online criminals create new ways to hack into systems.

Businesses of all sizes are vulnerable to this extortion malware.

Weve all heard about corporate executives who have been kidnapped and held for ransom. But did you know that your computer files can be kidnapped and held for ransom too? The new and particularly devious threat, called CryptoLocker, takes the age-old concept of kidnapping into the cyber world.