Cloud-based collaboration tools are a major driver of data exfiltration
Cloud-based collaboration technologies and workforce turnover have become major drivers of data exfiltration as insider threat programs fail to keep pace with today’s digital …
Users still engaging in risky password, authentication practices
IT security practitioners are aware of good habits when it comes to strong authentication and password management, yet often fail to implement them due to poor usability or …
Organizations lack confidence in their network security
IoT is barreling toward the enterprise, but organizations remain highly vulnerable to IoT-based attacks, according to Extreme Networks. The report, which surveyed 540 IT …
97% of IT leaders worried about insider data breaches
A staggering 97% of IT leaders say insider breach risk is a significant concern, according to a survey by Egress. 78% think employees have put data at risk accidentally in the …
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 …
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 …
Focus on cyber resilience increasing sharply as oil companies seek to protect their assets
Cybersecurity has emerged as the top focus of upstream oil and gas companies’ digital investments, according to a report from Accenture. The report is based on a global survey …
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, …
SecOps teams face challenges in understanding how security tools work
Security professionals are overconfident in their tools with 50% reporting that they have experienced a security breach because one or more of their security products was not …
Key technology trends that will redefine businesses over the next three years
To compete and succeed in a world where digital is everywhere, companies need a new focus on balancing “value” with “values,” aligning their drive to create business value …
43% of IT professionals are still tracking assets in spreadsheets
43% of IT professionals report using spreadsheets as one of their resources for tracking assets, according to Ivanti. Further, 56% currently do not manage the entire asset …
Digital certificates still cause unplanned downtime and application outages
51% of enterprises claim low ability to detect and respond to digital certificate and key misuse, according to Keyfactor and the Ponemon Institute. “Connectivity and the …
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