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Diligent announces a survey of 450 senior finance and risk professionals in UK-listed businesses. The results show that UK businesses lost £374 million in 2021, largely due to cyberbreaches caused by staff having to work from home. The survey also show… Continue reading Most breaches largely caused by staff working from home
Akamai released a research detailing the persistence of online piracy. The evolving piracy landscape, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center, costs the U.S. economy alone $29.2 billion in lost revenue each yea… Continue reading Piracy is alive and well, demand reaching 3.7 billion unlicensed streams and downloads
In this interview with Help Net Security, Malcolm Harkins, Chief Security & Trust Officer, Epiphany Systems, talks about the challenges security leaders must face when communicating with their company’s management and what to do to overcome … Continue reading How to measure security efforts and have your ideas approved
The heightened risk of cyberattacks on businesses is being compounded by significant recruitment and retention issues within cybersecurity teams, making businesses more vulnerable to potential attacks, according to a research from ThreatConnect. With t… Continue reading Cybersecurity staff turnover and burnout: How worried should organizations be?
Proofpoint released a report to identify the costs and trends associated with negligent, compromised, and malicious insiders. Notably, on average, impacted organizations spent $15.4 million annually on overall insider threat remediation and took 85 day… Continue reading How costly is an insider threat?
After a year of unprecedented ransomware attacks on hospitals and healthcare systems – and with healthcare now the #1 target for cybercriminals – critical medical device risks in hospital environments continue to leave hospitals and their patients vuln… Continue reading 53% of medical devices have a known critical vulnerability
Cyber perils are the biggest concern for companies globally in 2022, according to the Allianz Risk Barometer. The threat of ransomware attacks, data breaches or major IT outages worries companies even more than business and supply chain disruption, nat… Continue reading Cyber risks top worldwide business concerns in 2022
In this interview with Help Net Security, Curtis Fechner, engineering fellow at Optiv Security, explains the function of incident response tabletop exercises and how they can help reduce an organization’s overall cyber risk by keeping it prepared… Continue reading How to improve your IR tabletop exercises and why you really should?
In the world of cybersecurity, combating threats is like playing endless, hyper-advanced, multidimensional Whack-A-Mole: new threats are always emerging, often from unexpected sources, and trying to keep up can feel impossible. The threats are constant… Continue reading The rising threat of cyber criminals targeting cloud infrastructure in 2022
I am very glad to turn the page on 2021, however, I am not optimistic that 2022 will be remarkably better. I am hopeful that President Biden’s Executive Order 14028 and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Binding Operational Directive 22-01 (… Continue reading 2022 promises to be a challenging year for cybersecurity professionals