Migrating workloads to public cloud environment opens up organizations to a slate of new, cloud-native attack vectors which did not exist in the world of premise-based data centers. In this new environment, workload security is defined by which users have access to your cloud environment, and what[...]
We’ve all seen this scene in some movie or TV show: a hacker sits in a shadowy room, busily typing on his keyboard. Suspenseful music plays in the background, the camera pans around him in a slow movement, and within the space of a few clicks – voilà! – our protagonist has broken into the[...]
According to new research, a rising rate of coronavirus infections has been met with a declining rate of reported cybersecurity breaches. The finding, from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), shows that publicly reported US data breaches dropped 33% in the first half of 2020 compared with[...]
There’s a predictive relationship between responsible privacy practices and security outcomes, according to Osano.Companies with inadequate data privacy practices are 80 percent more likely to suffer a data breach than those with the highest-ranked privacy practices and will face fines seven times[...]
The authors of the "Trends in Cybersecurity Breach Disclosures" report from Audit Analytics reviewed 639 cybersecurity breaches at public companies since 2011 and discovered that, on average, each cyber breach costs $116 million.The report found that in 2019, cybercriminals usually targeted[...]
It can’t have escaped everyone's attention, since the move to the cloud the number of data breaches has gone through the roof. In this article, I’m going to run through why this is happening, why workplace policy won’t fix it, and what your organization can do to reduce the risk of being next.
The number of workforce identities in the enterprise is growing dramatically, largely driven by DevOps, automation, and an increase in enterprise connected devices, which will only continue to accelerate identity growth, an IDSA survey of 502 IT security and identity decision makers reveals.At the[...]
The threat of having your accounts taken over is no longer something we all read about - it's a major issue facing us all.So, we all know the scenario by now. You’re sitting at home and you get a call from a friend, “Hey buddy. There’s some strange emails coming from your account - I think you’ve[...]
A staggering 97% of IT leaders say insider breach risk is a significant concern, according to a survey by Egress.78% think employees have put data at risk accidentally in the past 12 months and 75% think employees have put data at risk intentionally. When asked about the implications of these[...]
After year over year increases in the number of reported data breaches, Risk Based Security has released the results of their Q1 2018 Data Breach QuickView Report, showing the number of breaches disclosed in the first three months of the year fell to 686 compared to 1,444 breaches reported in Q1[...]
