TikTok and WeChat both received reprieves over the weekend that helped avert U.S. blocks of their social media apps. President Donald Trump says he has given his "blessing" to a deal that would see Oracle and Walmart take a stake in TikTok's U.S. operations. Separately, a federal judge suspended a WeChat ban.
A leaked database compiled by a Chinese company has suddenly become the focus of news media reports warning that it could be used as an espionage instrument by Beijing. But on closer examination, the alleged "social media warfare database" looks like public information largely scraped from social media sites.
To insulate themselves against catastrophic data breaches, companies are moving toward modernizing their tech stacks through the refactoring and consolidation of legacy software components.
On top of bolstering data security, modernization also increases agility, shortens app development cycles, and reduces...
In the three years since Equifax suffered a massive data breach, the consumer credit reporting firm says it has worked tirelessly to overhaul the security shortcomings that allowed the breach to happen. Equifax CISO Jamil Farshchi and other security experts weigh in on important lessons learned.
In the wake of the public health crisis of 2020, work-from-home orders issued by most companies and governments have further accelerated this digitalization and adoption of remote services. The expansion of the virtual workforce and adoption of cloud has emphasized the need for security and compliance in the...
Office 365 is changing the way people collaborate and run their businesses. With this new architecture comes new risks. Security and compliance tools for email and cloud applications that are inadequate, inefficient or incomplete can threaten the benefits of Office 365. Data breaches or compliance failures can tarnish...
The need for enhanced business agility and secure remote access to support digital transformation has led to the adoption of the security access service edge, or SASE, model, says Rajpreet Kaur, senior principal analyst at Gartner.
Cloud use is flourishing and with the current pandemic has increased drastically. All new applications are pretty much cloud-based and organizations are starting to notice that service providers do not provide all the security necessary, especially as users may not fully understand the power to lose data via the...
Just as it's necessary to think about security before throwing yourself into the clouds when paragliding, the same holds true for large healthcare organizations migrating data to the cloud. Whether it's your first 'flight' in the clouds or you've been gliding for a while, there are security and compliance best...
Cloud migration still offers its fair share of speed bumps along the way. IT management has to keep pace even as digital business infrastructures become more complex with new cloud assets and networked devices. Security teams must ensure their organization's posture is secure even while releasing control over some key...
With cloud adoption on the rise, businesses have been transitioning to hybrid and multicloud environments at an incredible pace. In fact, Gartner predicts that 80% of enterprises will have entirely cloud-based infrastructures by 2025.
Having a strategy to mitigate the challenges of these new, complex infrastructures...
When implementing a cybersecurity risk framework, enterprises should use a structured approach to identity and evaluate and manage the risks posed by increased digital transactions during the pandemic, says Dmitry Chernetsky, global presales expert, Kaspersky-APAC.
Detection and response is a critical piece in an ongoing journey to improve your security posture. As the threat landscape grows increasingly complex, an effective detection and response program will help you recognize threats early and minimize the likelihood of attacker success. For many SIEM vendors, solving these...
National / Industry / Cloud Exposure Report (NICER): the Rapid7 Research team's dense, data-rich tome of exposure observations across countries, industries, and services, with actionable security advice.
In this report, the Rapid7 Research team analyzes the internet risk landscape, measures the geographic...
It's little wonder financial services is such a targeted sector considering the massive shift those organisations have made in digital transformation. But, the strive to create an agile enterprise by placing more applications and workloads into most likely, a hybrid cloud environment, comes at a price - complexity....
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