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Worldwide ICT spending forecast to reach $4.3 trillion in 2020
Worldwide spending on information and communications technology (ICT) is forecast to reach $4.3 trillion in 2020, an increase of 3.6% over 2019, according to IDC. Commercial …
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Are CISOs ready for zero trust architectures?
Zero trust is a concept that is gaining an increasingly large and dedicated following, but it may mean different things to different audiences, so let’s start with a …
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Most credential abuse attacks against the financial sector targeted APIs
From May 2019 and continuing on until the end of the year, there was a dramatic shift by criminals who started targeting APIs, in an effort to bypass security controls. …
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Cloud misconfigurations surge, organizations need continuous controls
Nearly 33.4 billion records were exposed in breaches due to cloud misconfigurations in 2018 and 2019, amounting to nearly $5 trillion in costs to enterprises globally, …
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Number of records exposed in healthcare breaches doubled from 2018 to 2019
In 2019, healthcare data breaches collectively affected over 27 million individuals, according to Bitglass. Categories of breaches Hacking or IT incidents: Breaches related to …
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Factbook: Healthcare IT practices and cyber preparedness
In 2019, at least 10 hospitals turned away patients due to a compromised ability to deliver care following cyber attacks. Less dramatically, in 2019 the industry suffered a …
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The top four Office 365 security pain points
Many novice Office 365 (O365) shops do not know where platform-specific security vulnerabilities lie, or even that they exist. The threats that you are unaware exist do not …
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A third of all vulnerabilities in 2019 had a CVSS v2 score of 7.0 and above
Risk Based Security’s VulnDB team aggregated 22,316 newly-disclosed vulnerabilities during 2019, finding that 37.26% had available exploit code or a Proof of Concept and that …
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8.4 million: Number of DDoS attacks researchers saw last year alone
Netscout released the findings of its Threat Intelligence Report for the second half of 2019, which also incorporates insights from its 15th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure …
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Researchers observed a 125% increase in malware targeting Windows 7
For the 2020 Webroot Threat Report, researchers analyzed samples from more than 37 billion URLs, 842 million domains, 4 billion IP addresses, 31 million active mobile apps, …
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Test CISSP knowledge with interactive flash cards
Study for the CISSP exam anytime, anywhere using Official (ISC)² CISSP flash cards. This free interactive self-study tool tests knowledge across all eight CISSP domains and …
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IT and business process automation growing with cloud architectures
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, …
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