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Privacy Shield
There is widespread business confusion and ignorance about the upcoming CCPA regulation

ESET polled 625 business owners and company executives to gauge business readiness for the upcoming California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect on January …

editor
FSI organizations are failing to assess their software for security vulnerabilities before release

More than half of organizations have experienced theft of sensitive customer data or system failure and downtime because of insecure software or technology, a Synopsys report …

IoT
Many companies don’t know the depth of their IoT-related risk exposure

In the digital age, cyber is everywhere. Cyber risk now permeates nearly every aspect of how we live and work. Organizations should better understand how to manage the risks …

brain
Companies struggle with the slow, unpredictable nature of AI projects

Despite significant investment in AI, many companies are still struggling to stabilize and scale their AI initiatives, according to Dotscience. While 63.2% of businesses …

Tools
53% of enterprises have no idea if their security tools are working

The majority of organizations don’t know if the security tools they deploy are working, and are not confident they can avoid data breaches, according to AttackIQ. AttackIQ …

Idea
How effective is your security operations center?

While the SOC is considered an essential or important component of business, most security professionals rate their SOC’s effectiveness as low, and 49 percent say it is not …

person
Damaging insider threats rise to new highs in the past year

70 percent of organizations are more frequently seeing insider attacks, with 60 percent experiencing one or more within the last 12 months, and 68 percent feeling “extremely …

architecture
100% of IT execs are modernizing architectures, but struggling with data silos and vendor lock-in

99% of IT execs report challenges with architecture modernization and 98% report challenges with their corporate data architectures (data silos), a DataStax survey reveals. …

bomb
50% of organizations believe attackers can infiltrate their networks each time they try

As organizations increase investments in automation and agility, a general lack of awareness about the existence of privileged credentials – across DevOps, robotic process …

email
Employees overestimate the efficacy of their workplace’s email security strategy

22 percent of businesses have experienced a data breach – defined as loss of confidential data or credentials, compromised account loss, or fraudulent financial transactions – …

Windows
If you’re struggling with Windows 10 migration, updates will be an even bigger challenge

With the end of Windows 7 support on the horizon, many companies remain significantly behind in completing their Windows 10 migration, new data from 1E shows. Of 600 senior IT …

danger
Cyberthreats targeting municipalities are on the rise

Through the first half of 2019, a growing number of municipalities across the US were hit with crippling ransomware attacks, while several large companies disclosed data …

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