The high-water line in information security gets higher each year. Ransomware attacks quadrupled in 2016, with the FBI estimating an average of 4,000 attacks a day. IBM survey of 600 business leaders in the U.S. found that one in two had experienced a ransomware attack in the workplace. But there are some wins that give hope for a more secure future, including the draft of NIST’s Digital Authentication Guideline. We’re looking at passwords in a better light, especially how we use passwords.”]

