How organizations across industries create and manage policies
MetricStream evaluated 260+ organizations across 15 industries to understand the ways in which organizations create, manage, and communicate policies, the challenges they …
75% of insider breaches are accidental
Approximately 25% of insider threats are hostile with the remaining 75% due to accidental or negligent activity, according to NTT Security. This graph represents the top …
Are your connected devices searchable on the Internet?
Despite being a hub for technology talent, Berliners are leaving themselves wide open to cyberattack through poor security practices that are exposing millions of cyber …
Surge in exposed credentials puts companies at risk
The volume of credential exposures has increased to 16,583 from April to July 2017, compared to 5,275 last year’s analysis by Anomali. 77% of the FTSE 100 were exposed, with …
Only 12% or organizations are likely to detect a sophisticated cyber attack
Organizations believe that today’s cyber threat landscape places them at high risk of cyber attacks. The EY survey of nearly 1,200 C-level leaders of the world’s …
Identity theft concerns won’t hold back holiday shopping
Despite concerns about identity theft and fraud, consumers don’t plan to curb their holiday shopping, according to Discover. While 62 percent of consumers are very or …
Criminals leverage unsecured IoT devices, DDoS attacks surge
Organizations experienced an average of 237 DDoS attack attempts per month during Q3 2017 – equivalent to 8 DDoS attack attempts every day – as hackers strive to take their …
Sad state of enterprise cloud infrastructure governance
A new survey of more than 300 IT professionals, conducted by Propeller Insights in October 2017, revealed that the state of enterprise cloud infrastructure governance is …
Poor security habits are the ideal recipe for a breach
A Preempt survey of more than 200 employees (management level or above) from enterprise companies of 1000 or more people, found that businesses are left exposed by employees …
A third of US businesses do not feel prepared for GDPR deadline
New research by Censuswide captures the preparedness levels of organizations in Europe and the United States for the May 2018 GDPR compliance deadline, as well as their …
Half of organizations do not audit SSH entitlements
Cybercriminals, such as malicious insiders, use SSH keys to access systems from remote locations, evade security tools and escalate privileges, according to a study conducted …
What motivates bug hunters?
Crowdsourced security penetration testing outfit Bugcrowd has released its second annual “Mind of a Hacker” report, to provide insight into bug hunters’ …