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Verizon’s recently released 2023 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) provides organizations with a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape and valuable insights into incident types and vulnerabilities. This year, the report in… Continue reading The significance of CIS Control mapping in the 2023 Verizon DBIR
To understand why you need cybersecurity awareness training, you must first understand employees’ outsized roles in security breaches. “People remain — by far — the weakest link in an organization’s cybersecurity defenses,” noted Verizon on the release of their 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). They elaborate that 25% of all breaches covered in the […]
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As cyberattacks intensify, more and more organizations recognize the need to have a strong security culture for all employees, according to Fortinet. Employee cybersecurity awareness The most recent report from Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs found that ran… Continue reading Employee cybersecurity awareness takes center stage in defense strategies
Fraudsters are trying out a new approach to convince companies to pay bogus invoices: instead of hijacking existing email threads, they are creating convincing ones themselves. A clever payment request fraud The fraud attempt begins with an email conta… Continue reading Fraudsters send fake invoice, follow up with fake exec confirmation
Despite increased emphasis on cybersecurity from authorities and high-profile breaches, critical gaps in vulnerability management within organizations are being overlooked by executive leadership teams, according to Action1. These gaps leave organizati… Continue reading The era of passive cybersecurity awareness training is over
Today’s business leaders are grappling with two opposing challenges. On the one hand, present day global economic and recessionary pressures mean spending policies need to be reviewed and cash reserves built up. On the other hand, the volume and increa… Continue reading How to achieve and shore up cyber resilience in a recession
Each year at the end of January, internet users are deluged with advice on how to keep their data protected and reclaim their online privacy. What started as Data Privacy Day has now become a Week, to match our increasing dependency on the internet and… Continue reading Helping users and organizations build an instinctive data privacy habit
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has made available Awareness Raising in a Box (AR-in-a-BOX), a “do it yourself” toolbox to help organizations in their quest to create and implement a custom security awareness raising pro… Continue reading ENISA gives out toolbox for creating security awareness programs
Did you know that not one of the top 50 undergraduate computer science programs in the U.S. requires a course in code or application security for majors? Yet the threatscape is only expanding. A recent report by Security Journey reveals the gap left by… Continue reading How to improve secure coding education
LastPass released findings from its fifth annual Psychology of Password report, which revealed even with cybersecurity education on the rise, password hygiene has not improved. Regardless of generational differences across Boomers, Millennials and Gen … Continue reading False sense of safety undermines good password hygiene