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Security and compliance gaps of ineffective employee onboarding and offboarding
There are significant gaps in the compliant management of employee resources throughout the employment lifecycle. Just 15% of employees have all the resources they require to …

The 5 biggest examples of executive threats and how to prevent them
Many executives focus their security efforts and budgets solely on physical threats, but attacks targeting an executive’s digital presence can be just as dangerous. …

49% of infosec pros are awake at night worrying about their organization’s cybersecurity
Six in every ten businesses have experienced a breach in either in the last three years. At least a third of infosec professionals (36%) whose employers had not recently been …

Massive uptick in eCrime campaigns, retail among top targeted industries
There has been a massive uptick in eCrime cyber activity, a CrowdStrike report reveals. As Gartner states in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platform, “The …

Cyber risks are the top concern among businesses of all sizes
Cyber risks are the top concern among businesses of all sizes for the first time since the Travelers Companies’ survey began in 2014. Of the 1,200 business leaders who …

What’s next for 5G?
The future of 5G lies in the enterprise, states ABI Research. Use cases across different vertical markets, such as industrial automation, cloud gaming, private Long-Term …

Vulnerability in Cisco Webex and Zoom may expose online meetings to snooping
Cequence Security’s CQ Prime Threat Research Team discovered of a vulnerability in Cisco Webex and Zoom video conferencing platforms that potentially allows an attacker to …

Assessing risk: Measuring the health of your infosec environment
There is an uncomfortable truth that many organizations are not conducting comprehensive assessments of their information security risk; or those that do aren’t getting much …

Managing and monitoring privileged access to cloud ecosystems
Cloud data breaches are on the rise, demonstrating time and again the need for a different approach and strategy when it comes to managing and monitoring privileged access to …

38% of the Fortune 500 do not have a CISO
To uncover whether the world’s leading companies are committed to enhancing their cybersecurity initiatives, Bitglass researched the members of the 2019 Fortune 500 and …

Email is an open door for malicious actors looking to exploit businesses
There’s an alarming scale of risks businesses are up against in a time when email is proving an open door for cybercriminals and malicious actors looking to disrupt, …

Employee negligence can be a leading contributor to data breaches
Two thirds (68%) of businesses reported their organization has experienced at least one data breach in the past 12 months, and nearly three in four (69%) of those data …