Cyber insurance claims on the rise
External attacks on companies result in the most expensive cyber insurance losses, but it is employee mistakes and technical problems that are the most frequent generator of …
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Worldwide cloud security market to reach $20.9 billion by 2027
The global cloud security market is projected to account for $20.9 billion by 2027, according to a report by Million Insights and is expected to grow with 14.6% CAGR from 2020 …
How consumers feel about retail data breaches
Generali Global Assistance released the findings of its survey which examines consumer sentiment on retail data breaches and the identity theft risks holiday shopping poses. …
Is your organization prepared for PCI DSS 4.0?
Designed to ensure that all companies securely transmit, store or process payment card data correctly, compliance to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) …
XDR: Unifying incident detection, response and remediation
According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020, the average time it took a company in 2019 to identify and contain a breach was 279 days. It was 266 days in 2018 …
Healthcare organizations are sitting ducks for attacks and breaches
Seventy-three percent of health system, hospital and physician organizations report their infrastructures are unprepared to respond to attacks. The survey results estimated …
Top tasks IT professionals are spending more time on
LogMeIn released a report that reveals the current state of IT in the new era of remote work. The report quantifies the impact of COVID-19 on IT roles and priorities for small …
Breaches down 51%, exposed records set new record with 36 billion so far
The number of records exposed has increased to a staggering 36 billion. There were 2,935 publicly reported breaches in the first three quarters of 2020, with the three months …
Network visibility critical in increasingly complex environments
Federal IT leaders across the country voiced the importance of network visibility in managing and securing their agencies’ increasingly complex and hybrid networks, according …
Businesses struggle with data security practices
43% of C-suite executives and 12% of small business owners (SBOs) have experienced a data breach, according to Shred-it. While businesses are getting better at protecting …
78% of Microsoft 365 admins don’t activate MFA
On average, 50% of users at enterprises running Microsoft 365 are not managed by default security policies within the platform, according to CoreView. Microsoft 365 …
Hackers breach psychotherapy center, use stolen health data to blackmail patients
News of an unusual data breach at a psychotherapy center in Finland broke over the weekend, after affected patients began receiving emails telling them to pay up or risk their …
