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Insights into end-user security awareness and behavior around phishing

July 12, 2019 7:36 am

Advertisement Phishing remains a leading concern for organizations worldwide. A new Proofpoint report features analysis of data related to nearly 130 million cybersecurity questions and offers insights into employee knowledge levels across 14 categories, 16 industries, and more than 20 commonly used department classifications. Overall, one in every four questions in the “Identifying Phishing Threats”...

Cybersecurity Experts Worry About Satellite & Space Systems

July 3, 2019 6:56 am

Advertisement Information from satellites fuel a great deal of today’s technology, from the intelligence gathering conducted by nation-states, to the global positioning system used for vehicle navigation, to the targeting used by “smart” weapons. Little surprise, then, that cybersecurity and policy experts worry that the relative insecurity of satellite systems open them to attack. In...

Cloud security exacerbated by immature security practices

June 26, 2019 7:40 am

Advertisement Enterprises are struggling to keep up with the rapid expansion of cloud within their businesses, according to Symantec. Surveying 1,250 security decision makers across the globe, Symantec’s Cloud Security Threat Report (CSTR) uncovered insights on the shifting cloud security landscape, finding enterprises have reached a tipping point: more than half (53%) of all enterprise...

How well are healthcare organizations protecting patient information?

Issued by: Help Net Security

Healthcare organizations have high levels of confidence in their cybersecurity preparedness despite most of them using only basic user authentication methods in the face of an increasing number of patient identity theft and fraud instances in the marketplace, according to LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Key survey...

Multi-stage attack techniques are making network defense difficult

Issued by: Help Net Security

IT managers are inundated with cyberattacks coming from all directions and are struggling to keep up due to a lack of security expertise, budget and up to date technology, according to Sophos. The survey polled 3,100 IT decision makers from mid-sized businesses in the US,...

Organizations expect to boost their cybersecurity investments by 34%

Issued by: Help Net Security

Annual losses from cyberattacks averaged $4.7 million in the last fiscal year — with more than one in 10 firms losing over $10 million —according to a new report from ESI ThoughtLab in conjunction with Willis Towers Watson and other organizations specialized in cybersecurity and...

Insights into end-user security awareness and behavior around phishing

Issued by: Help Net Security

Phishing remains a leading concern for organizations worldwide. A new Proofpoint report features analysis of data related to nearly 130 million cybersecurity questions and offers insights into employee knowledge levels across 14 categories, 16 industries, and more than 20 commonly used department classifications. Overall, one...

How businesses can become more nimble and secure by moving to the cloud

Issued by: Help Net Security

Today’s business landscape is more dynamic than ever before. Organizations are being inundated with data, generated by an ever-increasing number of connected devices and systems. According to IDC, volume of data worldwide will grow ten-fold to 163ZB by 2025, and the majority of that will...

How mobile use cases in financial services are affecting security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Financial services organizations are increasingly exposed to cyber threats, according to Wandera. The report “Mobile Security in the Financial Services,” includes analysis of six months of security data from 225 financial services customers with 50,000 devices collectively under management. Notable findings There were 4.7 million...

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How mobile use cases in financial services are affecting security

More than 2 million cyber incidents in 2018 created $45 billion in losses

How the healthcare industry can improve online trust

Anatomy of a ransomware attack: How attackers gain access to unstructured data

Healthcare executives need to make cybersecurity a business priority

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