cybersecurity

One in three IT security managers don’t have a formal cybersecurity incident response plan
Regardless of industry, information security incidents have become more of a targeted threat for businesses, increasing in amount and efficacy, according to the 2021 Data …

Large ransom demands and password-guessing attacks escalate
ESET released a report that summarizes key statistics from its detection systems and highlights notable examples of its cybersecurity research. The latest issue of the report …

How CISOs plan to accelerate the adoption of automation
ThreatQuotient released the State of Cyber Security Automation Adoption in 2021, new research focused on understanding the importance, challenges and trends facing businesses …

The cybersecurity issues organizations deal with remain complex and numerous
New thinking on cybersecurity policies, processes, people and products are necessary for organizations to reverse perceptions, and perhaps realities, that they are falling …

Domain security remains an underutilized component to curb attacks
Despite the shift to modernize business environments and operations among the Global 2000 companies, web domains remain dangerously under protected, according to CSC. CSC’s …

Combating vulnerability fatigue with automated security validation
Security operations teams have been dealing with “alert fatigue” for far too long. The introduction of log monitoring (e.g., SIEM), firewall, and AV technologies over two …

Do you have a plan for your cybersecurity career? Time to skill up!
Gerald Auger is a Managing Partner at Coastal Information Security Group, and Chief Content Creator at Simply Cyber. In this interview with Help Net Security, he talks about …

Erosion of digital trust: Consumers want more personal information protection
Consumers think banks, retailers and mobile operators need to do more to protect them and their personal information from fraudsters, according to Callsign. Trust in these …

Content sprawl is increasing the risk of data breaches and leaks
Egnyte’s latest report, based on a survey of 400 IT executives, examines the challenges of securing and governing unstructured content in today’s hybrid and remote work …

How cybercrime hurts some groups more than others
Trends in cybercrime mirror the widening digital divide accelerated by the pandemic leaving lower income and vulnerable audiences disproportionally impacted. A new report by …

Evolving beyond RBAC: Why ABAC is the future
In the advent of a “work anywhere, anytime” environment, enterprises face a rapid expansion of diverse users alongside an influx of applications, devices, APIs and …

How much trust should we place in the security of biometric data?
An increasing number of people around the world are being displaced by factors such as climate change, natural disasters, and wars. The people attempting to cross …