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Rise in remote work leads to increase in IT security gaps

Companies have not done enough to prevent heightened security risk in light of remote working, according to Lynx Software. In fact, 36% have been, or know someone who has …

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Can private data be recovered from “sanitized” images?

Machine learning systems are becoming pervasive not only in technologies affecting our day-to-day lives, but also in those observing them, including face expression …

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Most IT pros manage different versions of the same database

The vast majority (82%) of IT professionals admit that they manage different versions of the same database, and 74.4% run into issues with their current data warehouses, …

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85% of workers are looking forward to returning to the office

At the 1 year mark of quarantine, 85% of office workers are looking forward to returning to the office in some capacity, according to Eden Workplace. The survey was conducted …

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Passing a compliance audit in the cloud doesn’t have to be hard

Companies are required to comply with regulations that set standards specific to financial and size thresholds, industry type, customer categories, or other parameters. But …

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Alert overload still plagues cybersecurity industry

Alert overload still plagues the cybersecurity industry, according to Critical Start. Forty-seven percent of respondents reported personally investigating 10 to 20 alerts each …

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Defending enterprise systems during a pandemic

A new report from Akamai looks back at 2020, examining some of the technological shifts and the patterns that emerged from lockdown-related internet spikes at the beginning of …

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The impact of the pandemic on digital transformation and data access

Data access has become more critical for 53% of survey respondents throughout the pandemic as analytics workloads and demands increase significantly, according to a survey …

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How to mitigate security risks as cloud services adoption spikes

Millions have flocked to video-conferencing solutions and organizations have relied more heavily on various applications (such as G Suite for end users, Azure for developers, …

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2021 Hacker Report: Hackers are not just driven by money

HackerOne released its 2021 Hacker Report that reveals a 63% increase in the number of hackers submitting vulnerabilities in 2020. As organizations’ attack surfaces have …

COVID-19
372% increase in healthcare bot traffic could tamper with booking vaccine dates

Nations around the world are racing to acquire COVID-19 vaccines and assemble digital infrastructure and web applications to enable appointment booking. As they do this, …

smart cybersecurity spending
Most decision makers plan to increase spending on cybersecurity this year

Budget cuts, redundancies, delays to cyber resilience projects and increased remote working in the last 12 months could all have increased organizations’ risk of a cyber …

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