Dealing with ransomware attacks: What options do you have?
IT decision-makers often find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to dealing with ransomware attacks. Do they pay a large sum of money to …
Privacy regulations making cloud migration complex
Digital transformation is driving multi-cloud migrations, as 85 percent of organizations use at least two cloud providers for data storage and analytics, while 40 percent use …
Consumers aware of travel cyber risks, still not putting their digital wellness first
68% of Americans plan to travel for leisure this summer, with 12% doing so internationally, a McAfee survey reveals. While 68% of U.S. consumers report that they are connected …
The obvious and not-so-obvious data you wouldn’t want companies to have
What types of data are companies collecting, and when does it stop serving us? Value exchange: The ultimate differentiator First, let’s start by assessing the process of …
Healthcare organizations implementing zero trust to tackle cyberattacks
It is widely known that the healthcare industry is a primary target for cyberattack, with increasingly sophisticated and highly-motivated adversaries seeking to exploit both …
What is threat modeling and why should you care?
While there is not one exact industry wide definition, threat modeling can be summarized as a practice to proactively analyze the cyber security posture of a system or system …
Apple patches macOS zero-day exploited by malware for months (CVE-2021-30657)
Apple has patched a critical macOS zero-day (CVE-2021-30657) that has been exploited by Shlayer malware for months and has finally introduced/enabled the App Tracking …
330 million people across 10 countries were victims of cybercrime in 2020
Over the past year, 65% of people around the world report spending more time online than ever before, likely a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As we connected to the internet …
Cybersecurity guide for the hospitality industry
A practical cybersecurity guide from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can help hotel owners reduce the risks to a highly vulnerable and attractive …
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 …
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 – …