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Proper password security falling short despite increase in online presence
While 92 percent of people know that using the same password or a variation is a risk, 65 percent still re-use passwords across accounts, drastically increasing the risks to …
3 ways any company can guard against insider threats this October
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but most business leaders and consumers don’t need a special event to remember cybersecurity’s preeminence in today’s turbulent …
A multi-party data breach creates 26x the financial damage of single-party breach
Cyentia Institute and RiskRecon released a research that quantifies how a multi-party data breach impacts many organizations in today’s interconnected digital world. The study …
Leveraging AI and automation to identify sensitive data at scale
In this interview with Help Net Security, Apoorv Agarwal, CEO at Text IQ, talks about the risk of unstructured data for organizations and the opportunity to leverage AI and …
We cannot afford for healthcare security to be the “lowest-hanging fruit”
Healthcare organizations have never been more essential. Yet when it comes to cybersecurity, too many hospitals, medical groups and research centers lag far behind other …
Microsoft Power Apps data exposure: Prioritizing sensitive data with secure configuration settings
Security misconfigurations are one of the most common gaps hackers look to exploit. One bad configuration setting in a popular cloud platform can have far-reaching …
Firms embracing hybrid working, but must ensure teams have the modern skills to stay productive
Employers must act now to ensure staff have the modern skills to stay productive during hybrid working, says Questionmark. While firms are continuing to let staff work …
9 tips to avoid cloud configuration conundrums
Configuration-related errors continue to result in avoidable losses of customer data and, consequently, their trust and loyalty, as well as revenue. The recent T-Mobile breach …
Most Fortune 500 companies’ external IT infrastructure considered at risk
Nearly three quarters of Fortune 500 companies’ IT infrastructure exists outside their organization, a quarter of which was found to have a known vulnerability that threat …
46% of all on-prem databases are vulnerable to attack, breaches expected to grow
46% of all on-prem databases globally are vulnerable to attack, according to a research by Imperva. A five-year longitudinal study comprising nearly 27,000 scanned databases …
Three ways to keep your organization safe from cyberattacks
Cyberattacks continue making headlines as more companies fall victim to ransomware. Throughout the past year, we saw some of the largest breaches, leaks, and real-world …
Healthcare cybersecurity: How to prevent the compromise of patient records?
Year after year, the number of data breaches affecting entities in the healthcare industry rises, and 2020 was no exception. The 616 data breaches reported this past year to …
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