BYOD Archives - Cyber Security Minute

The Metaverse Could Become a Top Avenue for Cyberattacks in 2023

Issued by: Dark Reading

A combination of maturing and emerging consumer-facing cyber threats could add to the many challenges that enterprise security teams will need to contend with in 2023. Researchers at Kaspersky, looking at how the cyber threat landscape will likely evolve over the next year, expect that threat actors will expand use of many of their current…

Mobile Security

Securing mobile devices, apps, and users should be every CIO’s top priority

Issued by: Help Net Security

More than 80% of global employees do not want to return to the office full-time, despite 30% employees claiming that being isolated from their team was the biggest hindrance to productivity during lockdown, a MobileIron study reveals. The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly changed the way people work and accelerated the already growing remote work trend….

Vulnerabilities

Permanent remote work puts greater pressure on IT teams

Issued by: Help Net Security

82% of IT leaders think their company is at a greater risk of phishing attacks, and 78% believe they are at a greater risk of an insider attack, when employees are working from home, according to a report from Tessian. The research addresses the IT and security challenges companies must overcome to deliver a safe…

Network Security

Work from home, work from anywhere: Are you secure everywhere?

Issued by: Help Net Security

As millions of employees continue to work from home for the foreseeable future and in some cases perhaps indefinitely, balancing the ongoing demands of employee productivity and information security will be paramount. The historical “castle and moat” model of protecting IT infrastructure is outdated and will be further challenged by the emergence of a new…

Cloud Security, Network Security

41% of organizations have not taken any steps to expand secure access for the remote workforce

Issued by: Help Net Security

Currently, organizations are struggling to adjust to the new normal amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a Bitglass survey reveals. 41% have not taken any steps to expand secure access for the remote workforce, and 50% are citing proper equipment as the biggest impediment to doing so. Consequently, 65% of organizations now enable personal devices to access…

Network Security

Solving the security challenges of remote working

Issued by: Help Net Security

Unprecedented times call for unprecedented actions and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused what is likely to be the biggest shift towards remote working that the world has ever seen. But, while the technology has been around for quite some time, recent events demonstrate just how few businesses are capable of switching from an office-based…

Vulnerabilities

Organizations struggle with patching endpoints against critical vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

Less than 50 percent of organizations can patch vulnerable systems swiftly enough to protect against critical threats and zero-day attacks, and 81 percent have suffered at least one data breach in the last two years, according to Automox. The research surveyed 560 IT operations and security professionals at enterprises with between 500 and 25,000 employees,…

Application Security

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 events across the subset of devices analyzed over the 6-month…

Network Security

How can healthcare organizations remedy their cybersecurity ailments?

Issued by: Help Net Security

Cybersecurity is a constant concern for healthcare organizations, and the previous 12 months have done little to quell anxieties. In 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported 359 data breaches of 500 or more records, resulting in the exposure of more than 5 million healthcare records in total….

Network Security

Out-of-office security

Issued by: Kaspersky Blog

The Christmas and New Year holidays are generally regarded as a very nice time of the year. Workers depart the office, giving information security experts a chance to put their feet up. Before you take your well-deserved rest, however, make sure to take measures to protect corporate information on employees’ personal gadgets. Sensitive information on…