Are we chasing the wrong zero days?
Zero days became part of mainstream security after the world found out that Stuxnet malware was used to inflict physical damage on an Iranian nuclear facility. After the …
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21% of all files in the cloud contain sensitive data
McAfee released its Cloud Adoption and Risk Report, which analyzed billions of events in anonymized customers production cloud use to assess the current state of cloud …
How to protect your organization from insider threats, the #1 risk for data loss
Is your security approach exposing your organization to risk? The answer is “yes” if your security strategy focuses exclusively on external threats. If the breaches of the …
How science can fight insider threats
Malicious insiders pose the biggest cybersecurity threat for companies today because they can cause the most damage, and are much harder to detect than outsiders. From the …
In terms of main threat actors, expectation rarely matches reality
Netwrix conducted a study of the major IT risks that are significant for most organizations and assessed respondents’ readiness to withstand cyber threats. The report is based …
Do your users understand your cybersecurity policy?
ObserveIT surveyed more than 1,000 full-time employees ages 18-65+ at organizations with more than 500 employees on their understanding and awareness of cybersecurity …
Gargoyle: Innovative solution for preventing insider attacks
A group of researchers from UNSW Sydney, Macquarie University, and Purdue University has released a paper on a new and very promising network-based solution for preventing …
1 in 10 healthcare organizations paid a ransom within the last year
More than one in three healthcare organizations have suffered a cyberattack within the last year, while almost one in 10 have paid a ransom or extortion fee, according to …
Insider threat blind spot enables employee revenge attacks
Based on threat assessments from global organizations in public and private sector industries, Dtex Systems determined there are active insider threats in all assessed …
$8.76 million: The average yearly cost of insider threats
According to The Ponemon Institute’s report, “2018 Cost of Insider Threats: Global Organizations,” the average cost of an insider threat annually is $8.76 million. It’s …
