cybersecurity
Massive increase in endpoint attacks, rising rate of encrypted malware and new exploits targeting IoT
Fileless malware and cryptominer attack rates grew by nearly 900% and 25% respectively, while unique ransomware payloads plummeted by 48% in 2020 compared to 2019, according …
Not all eSignature solutions are necessarily right for business
The popularity of eSignature solutions has skyrocketed in the last year, as part of companies’ digital transformation efforts in the COVID-19 environment. However, not all …
IT security budgets to increase over the next 12 months
IT security budgets are spiralling out of control as organizations adapt to the everywhere workplace, an Ivanti survey reveals. 92% of CISOs highlighted the need to deploy …
Zero Trust creator talks about implementation, misconceptions, strategy
A little over a decade ago, John Kindervag outlined the Zero Trust security model. As a VP and Principal Analyst on the Security and Risk Team at Forrester Research, he spent …
Review: Group-IB Threat Hunting Framework
The IT infrastructure of larger organizations is very heterogeneous. They have endpoints, servers and mobile devices running various operating systems and accessing internal …
58% of IT and security pros concerned about security in the cloud
The Cloud Security Alliance and AlgoSec published research which queried nearly 1,900 IT and security professionals from a variety of organization sizes and locations, sought …
99% of security pros concerned about their IoT and IIoT security
Tripwire announced the results of a research report that assessed the security of connected devices across enterprise environments in 2021. Conducted by Dimensional Research, …
Encryption is either secure or it’s not – there is no middle ground
The principle of end-to-end encryption underpins a system of communication where only the communicating users can read the messages. To this end, it exists to prevent any …
The impact of the CCPA on companies’ privacy practices
A new DataGrail report examined how millions of California consumers are exercising their privacy rights – to access their data, delete their data, and stop the sale of …
As online fraud rises, 72% of retail brands expect to grow fraud teams
Retailers around the world are increasing their fraud teams and budgets because of a significant rise in all types of online fraud during the pandemic, a research by Ravelin …
Death, taxes, and hacks: How to prevent cyberattacks during tax season
Remember how folks did taxes in the olden days? They’d collect large piles of paper documents, fill out endless pages of forms, stuff a bunch of receipts in a shoebox and – …
5 key cybersecurity risks in 2021, and how to address them now
With an unexpected year of massive change behind us, many organizations have now an extensive remote workforce, new technologies in use, and digital transformation under way …