Phishing gangs mounting high-ticket BEC attacks, average loss now $80,000
Companies are losing money to criminals who are launching Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks as a more remunerative line of business than retail-accounts phishing, APWG …
Bring your own PC and SASE security to transform global businesses
Bring your own PC (BYOPC) security will reach mainstream adoption in the next two to five years, while it will take five to 10 years for mainstream adoption of secure access …
Five critical cloud security challenges and how to overcome them
Today’s organizations desire the accessibility and flexibility of the cloud, yet these benefits ultimately mean little if you’re not operating securely. One …
Qualys Multi-Vector EDR: Protection across the entire threat lifecycle
Traditional endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions focus only on endpoint activity to detect attacks. As a result, they lack the context to analyze attacks …
How to drive business value through balanced development automation
Aligning security and delivery at a strategic level is one of the most complex challenges for executives. It starts with an understanding that risk-based thinking should not …
A new project enables data to be read directly from compressed IoT data
The Network Computing, Communications and Storage research group at Aarhus University has developed a completely new way to compress data. The new technique provides …
Week in review: ERP security, early warning of ransomware, Active Directory disaster recovery
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: ERP security: Dispelling common misconceptions The various applications integrated in …
Vulnerability reporting is returning to normal
Vulnerability reporting, still impacted by COVID-19, is beginning to return to normal, Risk Based Security reveals. Out of 11,121 vulnerabilities aggregated during the first …
Data protection critical to keeping customers coming back for more
Although consumers remain concerned about sharing personal data with companies, the results of a Privitar survey highlight an opportunity for businesses to take a leadership …
The global cost of cybercrime per minute to reach $11.4 million by 2021
Cybercrime costs organizations $24.7, YOY increase of more than $2 every minute, a RiskIQ report reveals. It will also have a per-minute global cost of $11.4 million by 2021, …
Worldwide AI spending to reach more than $110 billion in 2024
Global spending on AI is forecast to double over the next four years, growing from $50.1 billion in 2020 to more than $110 billion in 2024. According to IDC, spending on AI …
People spend a little less time looking at fake news headlines than factual ones
The term fake news has been a part of our vocabulary since the 2016 US presidential election. As the amount of fake news in circulation grows larger and larger, particularly …