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Massive rise in threats across expanding attack surfaces
There was a massive increase in cyber threats globally year-over-year fueled by both the pandemic and expanding attack surfaces, Skybox Security reveals. Expanding attack …

One in four people use work passwords for consumer websites
Employees working from home on a company-provided computer are demonstrating a clear lack of cybersecurity knowledge through high-risk behavior, according to a report released …

Application container market to grow steadily by 2026
The application container market is expected to register a CAGR of 29% over the forecast period 2021 to 2026, according to ResearchAndMarkets. Increasing deployments of …

ICS threat landscape highlights
Dragos releases annual analysis of ICS/OT focused cyber threats, vulnerabilities, assessments, and incident response insights. “In 2020, the industrial community performed …

Why enterprises need rugged devices with integrated endpoint management systems
The debate within business organizations of whether to use consumer devices or to invest in rugged devices for the operations side of their business is as old as personal …

Five factors driving investment in IDV
For billions of individuals around the world, digital identity became critical in 2020. As a result, the global identity verification market, which was already growing rapidly …

Attackers disrupting COVID-19 efforts and critical supply chains
Cyberattacks evolved in 2020 as threat actors sought to profit from the unprecedented socioeconomic, business and political challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, IBM …

C-level executives driving the adoption of MACH across their organizations
Out with the old, in with MACH. That’s what a poll of global IT leaders found regarding their plans to revamp, or retain, their enterprise architectures. The research, …

Users largely unaware of the privacy implications of location tracking
How much personal information can our phone apps gather through location tracking? To answer this question, two researchers – Mirco Musolesi (University of Bologna, …

2021 will be the year of hybrid working: How can CTOs keep staff secure and productive?
In 2020, the pandemic was a radical turning point in the way we work. Office workers were forced to give up their commute and work from home. People from a whole range of …

Third-party risk management programs still largely a checkbox exercise
Enterprise third-party risk management (TPRM) programs have been around for a half-decade or longer, and at this point most large organizations run one. However, many of these …

U.S. municipalities are the perfect target for cybercriminals in 2021
On Feb 5th, 2021, a hacker gained remote access to a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida, and was able to adjust the amount of sodium hydroxide in the water from 100 …
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