Network Security

Network Security

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With the threat landscape continuously changing, businesses must be ready for anything

Despite efforts by organizations to layer up their cyber defenses, the threat landscape is changing, attackers are innovating and automating their attacks, NTT reveals. The threat landscape is changing Referencing the COVID-19 pandemic, the report highlights the challenges that businesses face as cyber criminals look to gain from the global crisis and the importance of…

Network Security

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Security threats associated with shadow IT

As cyber threats and remote working challenges linked to COVID-19 continue to rise, IT teams are increasingly pressured to keep organizations’ security posture intact. When it comes to remote working, one of the major issues facing enterprises is shadow IT. End users eager to adopt the newest cloud applications to support their remote work are…

Network Security

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Leveraging automation to maximize security budgets

With the economic impact of COVID-19 increasingly looking like an imminent recession and the way we do work altered perhaps forever, CIOs and CISOs will most likely be managing reduced budgets and a vastly different threat landscape. With the average cost of a breach continuing to skyrocket, the already slim margin for error will shrink…

Network Security

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Helping healthcare combat cyber attackers

Hospitals and other healthcare organizations around the globe are under immense pressure as they test and care for patients with COVID-19. They are also under siege by cyber attackers. This month, Interpol released a warning to hospitals and other medical organizations saying they are seeing increasing targeted ransomware attacks aimed at these entities. While cybersecurity…

Network Security

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Despite spending more on compliance, businesses still have basic IT weaknesses

There is a misalignment between data privacy regulation spending and business outcomes, according to Tanium research. Specifically, as businesses spend tens of millions on compliance, over 90 percent have fundamental IT weaknesses that leave them vulnerable and potentially non-compliant. The global study of 750 IT decision makers revealed that organizations have spent on average $70.3…

Mobile Security, Network Security

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While most people will say they are extremely concerned with their online privacy, previous experiments have shown that, in practice, users readily divulge privacy information online. A team of Penn State researchers identified a dozen subtle – but powerful – reasons that may shed light on why people talk a good game about privacy, but…