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Data breaches and network outages: A real and growing cost for the healthcare industry
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Infoblox report reveals major challenges the healthcare industry faced as IT workers scrambled to secure protected health information …

Special pricing on CISSP and CCSP training bundle
Whether you’re motivated by career advancement, higher pay or inspiring a safe and secure cyber world, the (ISC)² CISSP and CCSP certifications are professional game-changers. …

How to stay ahead of the rise of synthetic fraud
While banks have been successful in reducing card fraud in recent years, a new and rising threat has emerged: synthetic identity fraud. By combining real and falsified …

Cybercriminals capitalizing on our reliance on the cloud
90% of cyberattacks on cloud environments in the last 12 months involved compromised privileged credentials, according to a research from Centrify. Most cloud environments …

Rapid increase in security tools causing alert fatigue and burn out
On average, enterprises maintain 19 different security tools, with only 22% of such tools serving as vital to primary security objectives, a ReliaQuest survey reveals. The …

Compliance department spending plateaued in 2020
A study of 117 organizations in the second half of 2020 showed that compliance department spending was projected to plateau in 2020 after several years of rapid growth, …

Data protection challenges hinder digital transformation initiatives
Data protection challenges are undermining organizations’ abilities to execute digital transformation (DX) initiatives globally, according to the Veeam report, which has found …

The financial impact of cybersecurity vulnerabilities on credit unions
Cybersecurity vulnerabilities among credit unions and their vendors create the potential for large financial impacts to the credit union industry, according to a Black Kite …

Week in review: Attacks on Exchange servers escalate, the influence of the Agile Manifesto, O365 phishing
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Ongoing Office 365-themed phishing campaign targets executives, assistants, financial departments …

The benefits and challenges of passwordless authentication
More and more organizations are adopting passwordless authentication. Gartner predicts that, by 2022, 60% of large and global enterprises as well as 90% of midsize enterprises …

The democratization of the workplace through edge computing
It’s been a year since we first learned about COVID-19, but the pressure on businesses to accelerate their digital transformation (DX) efforts has not abated. Of particular …

3 in 4 companies have experienced account takeover attacks in the last year
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated cloud migration and digital transformation amongst 88% of companies and that 71% of Microsoft Office 365 deployments have suffered an …
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