The World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Risk Report ranked cyberattacks causing disruption to operations and critical infrastructure among the top five increasing global risks. Accenture estimates that the number of cyberattacks has gone up by 67% in the last five years.
The increasing digital connectivity of...
Dragos is currently tracking 3000+ Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that affect ICS/OT networks. Of those, more than 400 CVEs have at least one publicly available exploit. Public exploits affect every level of an industrial environment, providing adversaries pre-packaged tools capable of infiltrating an...
Merger and acquisition activity picked up in September with BitSight, Tenable and Mastercard, all making deals. Moody's became BitSight's largest shareholder after making a $250 million investment in the company.
In 2020, 16 million COVID-19-related threats, including malicious URLs, spam, and malware were detected, according to a Trend Micro report. At the start of the pandemic, many IT and cybersecurity measures were hastily put into place to deal with the crisis. Today, organizations must take stock of these measures, and...
According to a recent study ,78% of senior executives express lack of confidence in their company’s cybersecurity posture. The study also found, that this eventually prompted 91% of executives to increase 2021 budgets. Most Senior Executives agree that cyber risk is now the most critical category of risk across all...
Key challenges from the recent State of Cybersecurity 2021 report include "integrating risk with maturity and keeping up with industry trends," says Jenai Marinkovic, member of the ISACA Emerging Trends Working Group.
Implementing a "zero trust" framework for the healthcare sector requires gaining board support for implementing the right access management controls, according to a panel of experts.
An identity and access management strategy for a distributed work environment must leverage advanced monitoring tools, according to a panel of experts who also offered other IAM insights
Security teams and risk professionals consistently ensure the effectiveness of their cyber defense mechanism. The ongoing pandemic has intensified their challenges as they now have to ensure cyber resilience for their organizations in a hostile open environment. As organizations looked to quickly adjust to the new...
Average total cost of a breach at enterprises of more than 25,000 employees is $5.52million according to a recent study by Ponemon Institute. This cost is $2.64 million for organizations under 500 employees. The cost of risk is real and growing. These statistics show the impact of just one type of risk, technology...
Vulnerability management is more than assessment scanning. It involves the understanding of risk and the integrating of people and processes to remediate the most sensitive assets in the network.
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Collaboration and information sharing among stakeholders - and influencing them to take a proactive approach to cybersecurity - are critical steps in fighting against cyberthreats, says Narendra Mainali, CISO of NIC Asia Bank of Nepal.
In a recent research project on cyber risk management, 340 cybersecurity and IT professionals were surveyed. They were asked what their organization’s biggest vulnerability management challenge is. 42% of respondents indicated that their biggest vulnerability management challenge is tracking vulnerability and patch...
Is your team working constantly to discover and patch critical vulnerabilities across your global hybrid-IT landscape? Traditional vulnerability management solutions stop at only identifying vulnerabilities and don’t help with remediation. Security teams would prefer if they can automatically discover and categorize...
Discover the latest trends to see where risks are growing and how you can defend against them.
Results from the Verizon Mobile Security Index (MSI) 2021 report show that 62% of employees currently work remotely—that’s nearly double pre-pandemic numbers.
With remote workers accessing valuable corporate data...
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