Emotional intelligence playing an increasingly important role for CISOs
The increasing importance of emotional intelligence and other skills required to work with different stakeholders are placing new demands on CISOs. However, it’s also creating …
Hackers exploited Centreon monitoring software to compromise IT providers
Unknown hackers – possibly the Sandworm APT – have been compromising enterprise servers running the Centreon monitoring software for over three years, the French …
Malwarebytes was breached by the SolarWinds attackers
A fourth malware strain wielded by the SolarWinds attackers has been detailed by Symantec researchers, followed by the disclosure of the attackers’ ingenous lateral …
Only 30% prepared to secure a complete shift to remote work
The biggest security concerns facing businesses are data leaking through endpoints (27%), loss of visibility of user activity (25%) and maintaining compliance with regulatory …
Expedited shifts to hybrid infrastructure and remote work challenges
There was a significant acceleration of cloud and colocation migrations, with 54 percent of IT leaders stating the pandemic has motivated their organization to move …
How employees view and manage company security
As many companies continue to grapple with a remote workforce, overall employee security measures become more critical, especially as many are relying on personal devices and …
More than half of organizations don’t have an insider risk response plan
Both business and security leaders are allowing massive insider risk problems to fester in the aftermath of the significant shift to remote work in the past year, according to …
High-risk vulnerabilities discovery increased 65% in 2020
2020 has been a record year for crowdsourced cybersecurity adoption, with enterprises across all industries implementing crowdsourced cybersecurity programs to keep up with …
Key cybersecurity problems expected to mark 2021
After a year in which COVID-19 upended the way we live, work and socialize, we are likely to see an increased threat from ransomware and fileless malware in 2021, according to …
Cybercrime costs the world more than $1 trillion, a 50% increase from 2018
Cybercrime costs the world economy more than $1 trillion, or just more than one percent of global GDP, which is up more than 50 percent from a 2018 study that put global …
Open source vulnerabilities go undetected for over four years
For its annual State of the Octoverse report, GitHub has analyzed over 45,000 active code directories to provide insight into open source security (vulnerabilities) and …
Financial services lead when it comes to fixing open source flaws
The financial services industry has the best flaw fix rate across six industries and leads a majority of industries in uncovering flaws within open source components, Veracode …
