cyber risk
Half of IT pros believe their cybersecurity teams are ready to detect attacks
A surprising 51 percent of technology professionals and leaders are highly confident that their cybersecurity teams are ready to detect and respond to rising cybersecurity …
Third-party compliance risk could become a bigger problem
Since the onset of COVID-19, more than half of legal and compliance leaders believe that cybersecurity and data breach is the most-increased third-party risk their …
Most IT leaders believe remote workers are a security risk
57 percent of UK IT decision makers still believe that remote workers are a security risk, and that they will expose their organization to the threat of a data breach, …
Work-from-home creates multitude of opportunities for leaks
Breaches of corporate and government data appear to be running at a level even higher than experts had feared going into stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19, the International …
With a transition to remote work, network visibility becomes more critical than ever
More than 64 percent of organizations suffered at least one successful attack within the last year, and 59 percent believe lack of network visibility poses a high or very high …
Five contingency best practices for SOCs to handle uncertainty
With a crush of new teleworkers and a significant increase in endpoints coming online, we’ve entered into a new reality. COVID-19 has disrupted our lives and the business …
CISOs: Quantifying cybersecurity for the board of directors
Only 9% of security teams feel as if they are highly effective in communicating security risks to the board and to other C-suite executives, according to a recent survey …
Starbleed vulnerability: Attackers can gain control over FPGAs
Field Programmable Gate Arrays, FPGAs for short, are flexibly programmable computer chips that are considered very secure components in many applications. Starbleed …
Handbook: Cyber-Risk Oversight 2020
The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) and the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa) released Cyber-Risk Oversight 2020, a handbook on cyber-risk management …
The dangers of assumptions in security
Assuming things is bad for your security posture. You are leaving yourself vulnerable when you assume what you have is what you need, or what you have is working as …
Small businesses unprepared for remote working, most don’t provide cybersecurity training
Stay-at-home orders for more than 40 states have forced millions of businesses to establish remote workforces that rely solely on internet-enabled applications and products to …
Third-party risk is broken, businesses unprepared for supply chain disruptions
Many companies are not dedicating proper resources to assess third-party risks, and those that are still lack confidence in their programs, according to Prevalent. Supply …