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Are today’s organizations ready for the data age?
67% of business and IT managers expect the sheer quantity of data to grow nearly five times by 2025, a Splunk survey reveals. The research shows that leaders see the …

Researchers develop secure multi-user quantum communication network
The world is one step closer to having a totally secure internet and an answer to the growing threat of cyber-attacks, thanks to a team of international scientists who have …

How to protect yourself from the hidden threat of evasive scripts
Evasion techniques are used by cybercriminals to evade detection, and they are especially prevalent in the context of scripts, which on their own have legitimate uses (e.g., …

How COVID-19 affected remote work, customer engagements, and return to the office plans
Top-tier enterprises were 2.6 times as likely to have grown revenue, 2.5 times as likely to have reached profit goals and 2.1 times as likely to have high employee …

Global WAN optimization market to reach $4.88 billion by 2027
The global wide area network optimization market size is estimated to reach $4.88 billion by 2027, registering a CAGR of 9.5% from 2020 to 2027, according to Grand View …

Week in review: Costliest cybersecurity failures, DNS hijacking protection, AWS security automation
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: Cisco patches critical, wormable RCE flaw in Cisco Jabber Cisco has …

September 2020 Patch Tuesday forecast: Back to school?
Another month has passed working from home and September Patch Tuesday is upon us. For most of us here in the US, September usually signals back to school for our children and …

Mobile voting: Hype or reality?
The 2020 United States presidential election is already off to a rocky start. We’ve seen technology fail in the primary elections, in-person campaigning halted, and a plethora …

Why data is the missing link in your cybersecurity strategy
Everyone’s aware of how challenging maintaining a strong cybersecurity posture is these days. There’s no longer a perimeter to protect and with remote working becoming the …

Cryptomining activity could be a sign your servers are under attack
Organizations’ on-premise and cloud-based servers are compromised, abused and rented out as part of a sophisticated criminal monetization lifecycle, Trend Micro research …

2020 trends in SOX compliance
SOX & Internal Controls Professionals Group released a survey which measures the costs, execution, challenges and priorities faced by companies that comply with the …

Recommendations to enhance subscriber privacy in 5G
There are clear benefits of 5G SIM capabilities to protect the most prominent personal data involved in mobile communications, according to the Trusted Connectivity Alliance. …
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