It can’t have escaped everyone's attention, since the move to the cloud the number of data breaches has gone through the roof. In this article, I’m going to run through why this is happening, why workplace policy won’t fix it, and what your organization can do to reduce the risk of being next.
The number of workforce identities in the enterprise is growing dramatically, largely driven by DevOps, automation, and an increase in enterprise connected devices, which will only continue to accelerate identity growth, an IDSA survey of 502 IT security and identity decision makers reveals.At[...]
The threat of having your accounts taken over is no longer something we all read about - it's a major issue facing us all.So, we all know the scenario by now. You’re sitting at home and you get a call from a friend, “Hey buddy. There’s some strange emails coming from your account - I think[...]
A staggering 97% of IT leaders say insider breach risk is a significant concern, according to a survey by Egress.78% think employees have put data at risk accidentally in the past 12 months and 75% think employees have put data at risk intentionally. When asked about the implications of these[...]
After year over year increases in the number of reported data breaches, Risk Based Security has released the results of their Q1 2018 Data Breach QuickView Report, showing the number of breaches disclosed in the first three months of the year fell to 686 compared to 1,444 breaches reported in Q1[...]
With less than a month until the GDPR comes into force, many companies will not be ready when it takes effect on May 25th, 2018. 62% of IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) surveyed describe themselves as ‘confident’ in the build-up, with 1 in 5 (18%) saying they are nervous, according to WinMagic.
Gemalto released the latest findings of the Breach Level Index, revealing that 2.6 billion records were stolen, lost or exposed worldwide in 2017, an 88% increase from 2016. While data breach incidents decreased by 11%, 2017 was the first year publicly disclosed breaches surpassed more than two[...]
Trustwave released the 2018 Trustwave Global Security Report which reveals the top security threats, breaches by industry, and cybercrime trends from 2017. The report is derived from the analysis of billions of logged security and compromise events worldwide, hundreds of hands-on data-beach[...]
OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project), a well known online community that produces freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security released their first guide called Automated Threat Handbook in late 2015 which purpose[...]
Total Black Friday and Cyber Monday revenue: $11.5B Akamai published an article with their closing numbers on how their clients performed during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. All previous records were broken with $11.5B in total revenue for these days which means the anticipation that a record[...]
