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attacks
Surge in cyber attacks confirms the need for zero trust security

Zscaler announced the release of a report that tracked and analyzed over 20 billion threats blocked over HTTPS, a protocol originally designed for secure communication over …

skull
Ransomware attacks increased 148% in Q3 2021, showing no sign of slowing

SonicWall recorded a 148% increase in global ransomware attacks through the third quarter (Q3) of 2021. With 470 million ransomware attacks logged by the company this year to …

Cybersecurity risk management
While businesses are ramping up their risk mitigation efforts, they could be doing more

Zurich North America and Advisen have released a survey of corporate risk managers and insurance buyers revealing current views about information security and cyber risk …

Fire
Cybersecurity threat landscape growing in sophistication, complexity and impact

The 9th edition of the ENISA Threat Landscape (ETL) report released by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity highlights the surge in cybercriminality motivated by …

Dirk Jan Koekkoek
The antidote to brand impersonation attacks is awareness

In this interview with Help Net Security, Dirk Jan Koekkoek, VP, DMARC at Mimecast, talks about the growing threat of brand impersonation attacks, their increasing level of …

application
Employers must balance productivity and collaboration tools with security

Americans are more concerned about cybersecurity than ever before, according to Unisys. The survey found that concerns around internet security (including computer viruses and …

innovation
Top cybersecurity threats enterprises will face in 2022

McAfee and FireEye released its 2022 Threat Predictions, examining the top cybersecurity threats they predict enterprises will face in 2022. Bad actors have taken note of …

flame
Despite increased cyber threats, many organizations have no defense plans in place

98% of U.S. executives report that their organizations experienced at least one cyber event in the past year, compared to a slightly lower rate of 84% in non-U.S. executives, …

reload
Organizations making security trade-offs in the push to innovate

The vast majority of organizations are increasing their investment in application security this year, but they continue to struggle to fully embrace secure innovation. A …

shark
Executives’ top concern in Q3 2021? New ransomware models

The threat of “new ransomware models” was the top concern facing executives in the third quarter of 2021, according to Gartner. Concerns about ransomware topped …

DNS
72% of organizations hit by DNS attacks in the past year

Domain name system (DNS) attacks are impacting organizations at worrisome rates. According to a survey from the Neustar International Security Council (NISC) conducted in …

Business ideas
When it comes to collaboration tools, firms struggle to keep up with security and compliance

Surveying 100 key executives across financial services, Theta Lake found that 83% of respondents are turning off key productivity and usability features of collaboration …

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