New evidence suggests corporate America is embracing some of the basic cybersecurity functions that the experts have advocated for years. In a survey of more than 5,600 customers, identity management Okta found that three cybersecurity services ranked at the top of the list of the fastest-growing apps in corporate America. The security training platform KnowBe4, the password manager LastPass and the email security service Proofpoint landed in the top three spots, respectively, ahead of the video-conferencing service Zoom and software from Adobe. Security incidents are expensive, after all, and it’s often much more cost-effective to train workers about opsec, safeguard their passwords and protect their emails. An unrelated Ponemon Institute report found that the average cost of a stolen record is $148, and a typical enterprise shells out $3.86 million to recover from a data breach. And the Okta report, published Thursday, provides the latest evidence corporate executives are scrambling to build cybersecurity into their applications in an […]
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