cybersecurity

Indicators of poor password hygiene exposed
The recovered compromised credentials and personally identifiable information (PII) as well as the identified trends in online security habits and the data criminals tend to …

74% of organizations face outages due to expired certificates
As information security budgets grow and funds are allocated to protect the defensive perimeter, many companies have overlooked the critical importance of digital certificate …

2018 saw 6,515 reported breaches, exposing 5 billion sensitive records
There were 6,515 publicly disclosed data compromise events through December 31, 2018, exposing over 5 billion sensitive records, according to Risk Based Security’s Year …

Three reasons employee monitoring software is making a comeback
Companies are increasingly implementing employee and user activity monitoring software to: Ensure data privacy Protect intellectual property and sensitive data from falling …

Machine learning fundamentals: What cybersecurity professionals need to know
In this Help Net Security podcast, Chris Morales, Head of Security Analytics at Vectra, talks about machine learning fundamentals, and illustrates what cybersecurity …

Increased appetite for biometrics fueled by speed, security and convenience
The Biometric Consumer Sentiment Survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults who have experience using biometrics to log into their accounts, reveals an increased appetite for the …

SaaS spending increasing by 78 percent year-over-year
43% of the average company’s SaaS application stack changed in the last two years, according to the 2019 Annual SaaS Trends report. This is far greater than the typical …

How organizations handle disruptive data sources
In the 2018 Data Connectivity Survey by Progress, more than 1,400 business and IT professionals in various roles across industries and geographies shared their insights on the …

Most companies anticipate a critical breach in 2019, CISOs need to prioritize threats
80 percent of IT business leaders anticipate a critical breach or successful cyberattack over the coming year, according to the Cyber Risk Index (CRI), a Trend Micro survey of …

Most wanted malware in January 2019: A new threat speaks up
Check Point’s Global Threat Index for January 2019 reveals a new backdoor Trojan affecting Linux servers, which is distributing the XMRig crypto-miner. The new malware, …

NIST Cybersecurity Framework: Five years later
Five years after the release of the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, organizations across all sectors of the economy are creatively deploying …

SMBs spending a day each week dealing with cybersecurity issues
Almost half of UK small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) believe a cyberattack would put their business at risk of closure, and 48 per cent of businesses report they have had …
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