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The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for hackers and online scammers, and cybersecurity pros saw a 63 percent increase in cyber-attacks related to the pandemic, according to a survey by ISSA and ESG. Organizations were f… Continue reading The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on cybersecurity
The cybersecurity skills crisis continues to worsen for the fourth year in a row and has impacted 70 percent of organizations, as revealed in a global study of cybersecurity professionals by ISSA and ESG. Cybersecurity profession crisis The top ramific… Continue reading Lack of training, career development, and planning fuel the cybersecurity profession crisis
Application performance, impacted by network complexity at the edge and in the cloud, is the key enterprise concern this year for organizations implementing SD-WAN, according to Aryaka. The study surveyed over one thousand global IT and network practit… Continue reading Application performance becoming a key concern, influenced by increasing SD-WAN complexity
Encryption provides the best defense against any fines that might be levied for violations or data breaches under CCPA, according to ESG and Fortanix. What can you do? The report also revealed that CCPA applies data breach sanctions only if companies f… Continue reading Businesses can avoid fines if customer data is encrypted or redacted
Despite having hundreds of tools at their disposal, IT and security teams are rapidly losing sight of their asset landscape. That’s the finding from a survey from Axonius, which reveals how trends including the ever-increasing number of end-user device… Continue reading Cloud + BYOD + IoT = major security gaps
Fortinet has completed the acquisition of enSilo, a privately held endpoint security company headquartered in San Francisco. The acquisition further enhances the Fortinet Security Fabric and strengthens Fortinet’s endpoint and network security solution… Continue reading Fortinet acquires enSilo to strengthen its endpoint and network security solutions
Organizational silos create unnecessary security risk for global businesses. The lack of security involvement in DevOps projects was reportedly creating cyber risk for 72% of IT leaders, according to Trend Micro. In an effort to better understand the D… Continue reading Organizations need tools that support DevOps security
Only 8 percent of companies are securing 75 percent or more of their cloud-native applications with DevSecOps practices today, with that number jumping to 68 percent of companies securing 75 percent or more of their cloud-native applications with DevSe… Continue reading DevSecOps is emerging as the main methodology for securing cloud-native applications
Security professionals regard their existing tools inadequate for securing critical cloud data, even as their organizations invest heavily, with increasing speed, in cloud applications, according to ESG. The report, based on surveys with responses rang… Continue reading Security capabilities are lagging behind cloud adoption
The cybersecurity skills shortage is worsening for the third year in a row and has impacted nearly three quarters (74 percent) of organizations, as revealed in the third annual global study of cybersecurity professionals by the Information Systems Secu… Continue reading Cybersecurity skills shortage still the root cause of rising security incidents