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IT and business process automation growing with cloud architectures

February 18, 2020 5:34 am

Advertisement Many organizations are starting to realize the benefits of increased scale and velocity of application deployment in their businesses, according to F5 Networks. This value, however, can bring significant complexity as organizations maintain legacy infrastructure while increasingly relying on multiple public and private clouds, implement modern application architectures, and face an evolving and sophisticated...

Credential exposure report: Poor password habits still pose a serious threat

February 12, 2020 8:48 am

Advertisement 9,050,064,764 credentials have been recovered throughout 2019 which came from a total of 640 unique data breaches and include email addresses connected to plaintext passwords and usernames with plaintext passwords, SpyCloud reveals. That means, on average, each of these data breaches gave criminals more than 14 million sets of login credentials. Because people often...

What makes some organizations more cyber resilient than others?

February 4, 2020 10:45 am

Advertisement Despite higher levels of investment in advanced cybersecurity technologies over the past three years, less than one-fifth of organizations are effectively stopping cyberattacks and finding and fixing breaches fast enough to lower the impact, according to a report from Accenture. Based on a survey of more than 4,600 enterprise security practitioners around the globe,...

8 mobile security threats you should take seriously in 2020

Issued by: CSO

Mobile security is at the top of every company's worry list these days — and for good reason: Nearly all workers now routinely access corporate data from smartphones, and that means keeping sensitive info out of the wrong hands is an increasingly intricate puzzle. The...

Cybersecurity hiring challenges and retention issues demand new talent pipelines

Issued by: Help Net Security

Cybersecurity teams continue to struggle with hiring and retention, and very little improvement has been achieved in these areas since last year, according to ISACA. Understaffed and lacking diversity ISACA’s 2020 State of Cybersecurity survey report, unveiled at RSA Conference 2020, finds that enterprises are...

Increased monetization means more ransomware attacks

Issued by: Help Net Security

Organizations are detecting and containing attacks faster as the global median dwell time, defined as the duration between the start of a cyber intrusion and it being identified, was 56 days. This is 28% lower than the 78-day median observed in the previous year, according...

Users still engaging in risky password, authentication practices

Issued by: Help Net Security

IT security practitioners are aware of good habits when it comes to strong authentication and password management, yet often fail to implement them due to poor usability or inconvenience, according to Yubico and Ponemon Institute. The conclusion is that IT security practitioners and individuals are...

High-risk vulnerabilities and public cloud-based attacks on the rise

Issued by: Help Net Security

A sharp increase (57%) in high-risk vulnerabilities drove the threat index score up 8% from December 2019 to January 2020, according to the Imperva Cyber Threat Index. Following the release of Oracle’s Critical Patch Update – which included 19 MySQL vulnerabilities—there was an unusual increase...

Cloud-enabled threats are on the rise, sensitive data is moving between cloud apps

Issued by: Help Net Security

44% of malicious threats are cloud enabled, meaning that cybercriminals see the cloud as an effective method for subverting detection, according to Netskope. “We are seeing increasingly complex threat techniques being used across cloud applications, spanning from cloud phishing and malware delivery, to cloud command...

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