cybersecurity

Widespread data silos slow down security response times
Although the goals and challenges of IT and security professionals intersect, 72% report security data and IT data are siloed in their organization, which contributes to …

34% of organizations lack cloud cybersecurity skills
Incident response today is too time consuming and manual, leaving organizations vulnerable to damage due to their inability to efficiently investigate and respond to …

Human error still perceived as the Achilles’ heel of cybersecurity
While fears of cyber attacks continue to rise, CISOs demonstrate increasing confidence in their ability to defend against these threats, reflecting a significant shift in the …

Despite increased budgets, organizations struggle with compliance
Only 40% of organizations feel fully prepared to meet the compliance demands of rising cybersecurity regulations, according to a new Swimlane report. Organizations still feel …

Worried about job security, cyber teams hide security incidents
The frequency and severity of cyberattacks are increasing—yet most businesses remain unprepared, according to VikingCloud. Between a growing talent shortage, alert fatigue, …

Effective GRC programs rely on team collaboration
One in three organizations are not currently able to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risk with their GRC program, nor are they able to ensure compliance with …

CISOs pursuing AI readiness should start by updating the org’s email security policy
Over the past few years, traditional phishing messages — with their pervasive linguistic errors, thinly-veiled malicious payloads, and often outlandish pretexts — have been on …

Strategies for transitioning to a SASE architecture
In this Help Net Security, Prakash Mana, CEO at Cloudbrink, discusses the primary challenges companies face when transitioning to a SASE architecture and how to overcome them. …

Ransomware fallout: 94% experience downtime, 40% face work stoppage
Within the last 12 months, 48% of organizations identified evidence of a successful breach within their environment, according to Arctic Wolf. To fully understand the gravity …

2024 sees continued increase in ransomware activity
In this Help Net Security video, Ryan Bell, Threat Intelligence Manager at Corvus Insurance, discusses how ransomware will continue to grow in 2024. In January, Corvus …

Machine identities lack essential security controls, pose major threat
Siloed approaches to securing human and machine identities are driving identity-based attacks across enterprises and their ecosystems, according to CyberArk. The CyberArk 2024 …

Authelia: Open-source authentication and authorization server
Authelia is an open-source authentication and authorization server that offers 2FA and SSO for applications through a web portal. It works alongside reverse proxies to permit, …