Tag: organization

April 29, 2024

For all the flexibility and cost management upsides to hybrid/multicloud infrastructure, there is a major trade-off: Complexity can breed security risks. When an organization’s assets span multiple public – and private – clouds, it can be exceedingly difficult to achieve […]

July 27, 2023

As cloud applications are built, tested and updated, they wind their way through an ever-complex series of different tools and teams. Across hundreds or even thousands of technologies that make up the patchwork quilt of development and cloud environments, security […]

August 5, 2020

As your organization embraces the cloud, you may find that the dynamism and scale of the cloud-native stack requires a far more complicated security and compliance landscape. For instance, with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes gaining traction, developers and devops […]

October 16, 2019

Does ransomware respect the holiday season? With ransomware attacks attempted every 14 seconds, it’s not likely attackers take any days off. The threat of ransomware keeps growing, and in Q1 2019, researchers noted a 118 percent rise in malware strains […]

October 10, 2019

Although nearly half (48%) of corporate data is stored in the cloud, only a third (32%) of organizations admit they employ a security-first approach to data storage in the cloud, according to a global study from Thales, with research from […]

August 6, 2019

The number of public sector organizations that are ready to implement a cloud-first strategy or move their entire infrastructures to the cloud has decreased by almost 20% since 2018, according to Netwrix. In fact, only 32% of government organizations would […]

July 20, 2019

Every headline-grabbing cyberattack unveils new sophisticated hacking techniques, but the attacker’s portrait remains the same: a modern-day professional with a strong sense of curiosity, patience, and social skills that thoroughly examines a company’s systems, takes note of every vulnerability, then […]

July 15, 2019

Healthcare organizations have high levels of confidence in their cybersecurity preparedness despite most of them using only basic user authentication methods in the face of an increasing number of patient identity theft and fraud instances in the marketplace, according to […]

June 5, 2019

Global businesses continue to house ‘dark data’ within their organizations, creating a honeypot for cybercriminals, finds research from Veritas Technologies. The Value of Data study, conducted by Vanson Bourne for Veritas, surveyed 1,500 IT decision makers and data managers across […]

May 10, 2019

Almost a quarter of organizations will not be ready for Microsoft to terminate public delivery of Windows 7 security updates on January 14, 2020, the official end of support date. They will be increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack until they move […]

April 12, 2019

How prepared are organizations when it comes to withstanding and recovering from a cyberattack? The fourth annual benchmark study on Cyber Resilience by IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute showed that 77 percent of them are still do not have […]

December 5, 2018

Digital trust is the measure of consumer, partner and employee confidence in an organization’s ability to protect and secure data and the privacy of individuals. As data breaches become bigger and more common, digital trust can be a valuable commodity […]

November 8, 2018

Ensuring access to a reliable feed of threat intelligence through a security operations center (SOC) is an essential element of any organization’s security strategies today. However, establishing a SOC is a complicated endeavor, particularly when it comes to balancing the […]

June 26, 2018

A new report offers data and analysis as to why midsized organizations hit a cybersecurity sweet spot in terms of security efficacy. A new report based on data from an extensive body of penetration tests shows that while prevailing opinion […]

May 7, 2018

Simply put, cyber resilience is a measure of how well an organization can operate its business during a data breach or cyber attack. Security teams have measures in place to detect and stop attacks, and they have recovery plans for […]

April 18, 2018

AI and predictive analytics should be used to augment a company’s security team, not replace it. Here’s why. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are two interrelated concepts that people across the tech landscape know hold important implications. While […]

March 23, 2018

The cost of having an organization targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack for an hour is as low as $10, cybersecurity firm Armor says. The low cost of launching such attacks results from the proliferation of cybercrime-as-a-service, […]

December 27, 2016

Major cyberattacks against organizations of all sizes seem to happen almost weekly. On Dec. 14, Yahoo announced the largest-ever data breach, involving more than 1 billion customer accounts. Despite the scale and potential harm from such attacks, there’s wide recognition […]

August 1, 2016

A lot of hard work needs to go into effectively implementing an intelligence-driven security model. It starts with five critical factors. Many organizations want to build a threat intelligence team but don’t really know where to start, let alone answer […]

March 30, 2016

Now that we’re well into 2016, you likely have various information security initiatives underway. The specifics you’re working on are, no doubt, priorities given your unique needs, budget and so on. But are you focusing on the right things? Are […]