cyber risk
How collaboration between IT pros and senior leaders could drive the future of risk mitigation
What is an acceptable level of risk for IT pros and their organizations? The answer to this question has changed in recent years, with the threat landscape shifting …
Cybercrime awareness heightened, yet people still engage in risky online behaviors
76% of Americans recognize that data breaches are serious, showing a high awareness that may be driven by news of major consumer, enterprise, and infrastructure breaches over …
Three areas legal leaders should focus their technology efforts in
As legal and compliance teams have faced acute pressures since the global pandemic and are struggling to manage their workload, legal leaders should focus their technology …
Third-party risk prevention strategies inadequate despite organizations being aware of the threats
While organizations recognize third-party threats expose them to great risk, many organizations fail to take adequate measures to mitigate it. In fact, while they grapple with …
Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations may have life-or-death consequences
Ponemon Institute surveyed 597 IT and IT security professionals to understand how COVID-19 has impacted how healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) protect patient care and …
Certificates volume growing, most enterprises considering PKI automation to reduce risks
The typical enterprise manages over 50,000 publicly and privately trusted PKI certificates, a DigiCert survey shows. Manually managing this volume of certificates can lead to …
Assessing subsidiary risk a top priority for most enterprises, yet they still lack proper visibility
Most enterprises are overconfident and lack the proper visibility to manage subsidiary risk, according to an Osterman Research study. The study surveyed enterprises with more …
CNP transaction fraud costing merchants millions in revenue, fraudsters getting more sophisticated
Vesta released a report which includes an analysis of millions of digital transactions from the first quarter of 2020 through the first quarter of 2021 to track how CNP fraud …
Proper password security falling short despite increase in online presence
While 92 percent of people know that using the same password or a variation is a risk, 65 percent still re-use passwords across accounts, drastically increasing the risks to …
Corporate attack surface exploding as a result of remote work
74% of organizations attribute recent business-impacting cyberattacks to vulnerabilities in technology put in place during the pandemic. The data is drawn from a study of more …
A multi-party data breach creates 26x the financial damage of single-party breach
Cyentia Institute and RiskRecon released a research that quantifies how a multi-party data breach impacts many organizations in today’s interconnected digital world. The study …
Implementing risk quantification into an existing GRC program
With a myriad of risks and limited security budgets, how do organizations decide which projects to prioritize? Many governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) …
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