Cisco drops security fixes for Smart Software Manager, security appliances
Cisco has released a new batch of security fixes for a number of its products, including its Smart Software Manager On-Prem solution and its Email Security and Content …
Looking at the future of identity access management (IAM)
Here we are: at the beginning of a new year and the start of another decade. In many ways, technology is exceeding what we expected by 2020, and in other ways, well, it is …
Cloud-enabled threats are on the rise, sensitive data is moving between cloud apps
44% of malicious threats are cloud enabled, meaning that cybercriminals see the cloud as an effective method for subverting detection, according to Netskope. “We are seeing …
10 hot industry newcomers to watch at RSA Conference 2020
The RSA Conference 2020 Early Stage Expo is an innovation space dedicated to promoting emerging talent in the industry. Here are some of the most exciting companies exhibiting …
High-risk vulnerabilities and public cloud-based attacks on the rise
A sharp increase (57%) in high-risk vulnerabilities drove the threat index score up 8% from December 2019 to January 2020, according to the Imperva Cyber Threat Index. …
Worldwide ICT spending forecast to reach $4.3 trillion in 2020
Worldwide spending on information and communications technology (ICT) is forecast to reach $4.3 trillion in 2020, an increase of 3.6% over 2019, according to IDC. Commercial …
What is flowing through your enterprise network?
Since Edward Snowden’s revelations of sweeping internet surveillance by the NSA, the push to encrypt the web has been unrelenting. Bolstered by Google’s various initiatives …
Are CISOs ready for zero trust architectures?
Zero trust is a concept that is gaining an increasingly large and dedicated following, but it may mean different things to different audiences, so let’s start with a …
Most credential abuse attacks against the financial sector targeted APIs
From May 2019 and continuing on until the end of the year, there was a dramatic shift by criminals who started targeting APIs, in an effort to bypass security controls. …
Cloud misconfigurations surge, organizations need continuous controls
Nearly 33.4 billion records were exposed in breaches due to cloud misconfigurations in 2018 and 2019, amounting to nearly $5 trillion in costs to enterprises globally, …
Number of records exposed in healthcare breaches doubled from 2018 to 2019
In 2019, healthcare data breaches collectively affected over 27 million individuals, according to Bitglass. Categories of breaches Hacking or IT incidents: Breaches related to …
Factbook: Healthcare IT practices and cyber preparedness
In 2019, at least 10 hospitals turned away patients due to a compromised ability to deliver care following cyber attacks. Less dramatically, in 2019 the industry suffered a …
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