A new report shows the scale of ransomware's harm and the growth of that damage year-over-year -- an average of $141,000 per incident.No one questions that a ransomware attack is a bad thing. But a new report doesn't just confirm that these encryption assaults are bad, it also quantifies the $11.5[...]
44% of malicious threats are cloud enabled, meaning that cybercriminals see the cloud as an effective method for subverting detection, according to Netskope.89% of enterprise users are in the cloud, actively using at least one cloud app every day. Cloud storage, collaboration, and webmail apps are[...]
Many enterprises are finding it increasingly difficult to deliver a consistently high-quality end user experience to a global online audience using a single content delivery network (CDN). CDN providers have different strengths and weaknesses—unsurprisingly, a single provider does not adequately[...]
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks cost organizations an estimated $1.77 billion in losses in 2019, reports the FBI, which received a total of 23,775 complaints related to this threat.The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) this week released its "2019 Internet Crime Report," which[...]
As we move into a new decade IT professionals will be scratching their heads wondering "what new threat is going to cause me to have to rethink my security architecture or user policy?". As a solutions architect working with a wide range of customers, here's my take on what's coming.
Multivector and cloud computing attacks have been rising over the last twelve months, according to Link11. The share of multivector attacks – which target and misuse several protocols – grew significantly from 46% in the first quarter to 65% in the fourth quarter.DNS amplification was the most used[...]
Armis, the leading enterprise IoT security company, announced the discovery of five zero-day vulnerabilities in various implementations of the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP).
Palo Alto Networks released research showing how vulnerabilities in the development of cloud infrastructure are creating significant security risks.The Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report: Spring 2020 investigates why cloud misconfigurations happen so frequently. It finds that as organizations move to[...]
Check Point Research analysts who discovered two vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure have published the details of how these flaws were found and how attackers could potentially use them.The research team began exploring Azure infrastructure in an effort "to disprove the[...]
Organizations are not making progress in reducing their endpoint security risk, especially against new and unknown threats, a Ponemon Institute study reveals.68% IT security professionals say their company experienced one or more endpoint attacks that compromised data assets or IT infrastructure in[...]
