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Special pricing on CISSP and CCSP training bundle
Special pricing on CISSP and CCSP training bundle

Whether you’re motivated by career advancement, higher pay or inspiring a safe and secure cyber world, the (ISC)² CISSP and CCSP certifications are professional game-changers. …

fraud detection
How to stay ahead of the rise of synthetic fraud

While banks have been successful in reducing card fraud in recent years, a new and rising threat has emerged: synthetic identity fraud. By combining real and falsified …

cloud complexity
Cybercriminals capitalizing on our reliance on the cloud

90% of cyberattacks on cloud environments in the last 12 months involved compromised privileged credentials, according to a research from Centrify. Most cloud environments …

tools
Rapid increase in security tools causing alert fatigue and burn out

On average, enterprises maintain 19 different security tools, with only 22% of such tools serving as vital to primary security objectives, a ReliaQuest survey reveals. The …

compliance
Compliance department spending plateaued in 2020

A study of 117 organizations in the second half of 2020 showed that compliance department spending was projected to plateau in 2020 after several years of rapid growth, …

hands
Data protection challenges hinder digital transformation initiatives

Data protection challenges are undermining organizations’ abilities to execute digital transformation (DX) initiatives globally, according to the Veeam report, which has found …

hole
The financial impact of cybersecurity vulnerabilities on credit unions

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities among credit unions and their vendors create the potential for large financial impacts to the credit union industry, according to a Black Kite …

week in review
Week in review: Attacks on Exchange servers escalate, the influence of the Agile Manifesto, O365 phishing

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Ongoing Office 365-themed phishing campaign targets executives, assistants, financial departments …

Apple
iOS app developers targeted with trojanized Xcode project

“We recently became aware of a trojanized Xcode project in the wild targeting iOS developers thanks to a tip from an anonymous researcher. The malicious project is a …

tools
Automatically mitigate ProxyLogon, detect IoCs associated with SolarWinds attackers’ activities

Microsoft has updated its Defender Antivirus to mitigate the ProxyLogon flaw on vulnerable Exchange Servers automatically, while the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security …

infosec products of the week
New infosec products of the week: March 19, 2021

Akamai MFA provides FIDO2 multi-factor authentication without hardware security keys Akamai Technologies announced the launch of Akamai MFA, a phish-proof solution designed to …

Person
The benefits and challenges of passwordless authentication

More and more organizations are adopting passwordless authentication. Gartner predicts that, by 2022, 60% of large and global enterprises as well as 90% of midsize enterprises …

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