cybersecurity
Are ransom payers fueling ransomware?
A new CyberEdge Group report uncovered two trends that are stimulating record-setting ransomware attacks: More ransom payers are successfully recovering their data. In 2018, …
Researchers develop a way to quickly purge old network data
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Army Research Office have demonstrated a new model of how competing pieces of information spread in online social …
Distributed disruption: Coronavirus multiplies the risk of severe cyberattacks
The coronavirus pandemic is upending everything we know. As the tally of infected people grows by the hour, global healthcare, economic, political, and social systems are …
21% of SMBs do not have a data backup or disaster recovery solution in place
58% of C-level executives at small and medium businesses (SMBs) said their biggest data storage challenge is security vulnerability, according to Infrascale. The research, …
Steering your network in the right direction with segmentation
Throughout history, individuals have taken innovations in their prime and tried to mold them into objects they were never designed to be. An example? The first cars were …
The potential impact of SAP security remediation
More than two thirds (68.8%) of SAP users believe their organizations put insufficient focus on IT security during previous SAP implementations, while 53.4% indicated that it …
Researchers find shift in monthly web traffic amidst pandemic
There have been shifts in total web traffic broken down by the world’s largest industries as the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded over the past several weeks, according to …
Remote work and web conferencing: Security and privacy considerations
As more and more people remain at home and work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of them have been forced to use one or many video and audio conferencing …
RDP and VPN use soars, increasing enterprise cyber risk
As COVID-19 slowly spread across the globe, consumer demand for commercial virtual private network (VPN) services has soared – both for security reasons and for …
Should you hire a specialized cybersecurity recruiter?
Finding skilled cybersecurity professionals to fill organizations’ increasing needs is becoming more difficult by the day due to the wide (and widening) cybersecurity …
Debunking vulnerability management myths for a safer enterprise
Cybersecurity is one of the most daunting challenges enterprises will face in 2020. According to IBM’s 2019 Cost of a Data Breach report, the average cost of a data …
Why we need to secure IoT connections sooner rather than later
IoT products offer many conveniences but there are massive amounts of data being transferred to and from these services vulnerable to attack if left unsecured. In this …
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