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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, …

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To support a growing remote workforce, the public sector turned to the cloud

Nutanix announced the global public sector industry findings of its report, measuring organizations’ plans for adopting a private, hybrid and public cloud. The findings point …

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Businesses trust their remote employees are sufficiently skilled to mitigate cybersecurity risks

80% of businesses worldwide are confident their remote employees, specifically those working with finance software or participating in official company transactions, have the …

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Enterprises observing uptick in risky behaviors since shift to remote work

Tanium released a report to evaluate the primary IT operations and security challenges organizations have faced amid the large-scale shift to remote work in the COVID-19 era, …

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Protecting the digital workplace with an integrated security strategy

COVID-19 propelled the world of IT years into the future. Organizations considering long-term digital transformation plans were abruptly forced to accelerate their timeline, …

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Full-stack observability: The only way technologists can deal with IT complexity

AppDynamics released its global research study, exploring the impact of the rapid acceleration of digital transformation created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the …

identity
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 …

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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 …

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Researchers propose more secure and private mobile contact tracing

For public health officials, contact tracing remains critical to managing the spread of the coronavirus — particularly as it appears that variants of the virus could be …

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Adversaries exploit supply chains, double down on COVID-19 and ransomware

Supply chain attacks, ransomware, data extortion and nation-state threats prove to be more prolific than ever, a CrowdStrike report suggests. eCrime attacks made up 79% of all …

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10 COVID-19-related lessons for future-ready cybersecurity

In 2020, we experienced wave after wave of COVID-19 surges and watched failure after failure at practicing what we knew were effective preventative measures. Similarly, in …

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Criminals leveraging shift to remote work to develop targeted attacks

Malwarebytes announced the findings of its report which explores how the global pandemic forced many employees to quickly become a remote workforce and confined consumers to …

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