Looking back over more than 12 months of pandemic lockdowns in various parts of the World and looking forward to the 'next normals', Spencer Lichtenstein considers the impacts on security operations management and the future trends in this area that we are likely to see.
Check Point Research (CPR), the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point, has published its 2021 Security Report. The report reveals the key attack vectors and techniques observed by CPR researchers as criminal, political and nation-state threat actors exploited the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to target organizations across all sectors.
Malwarebytes has announced the findings of its annual ‘State of Malware’ report. This highlights how cybercriminals ditched many of their old tactics in response to the global pandemic forcing many employees to quickly become a remote workforce.
Accurics has published its latest research document, the ‘Accurics Cloud Cyber Resilience Report’, which highlights security risks identified in cloud native environments.
Overall industry trends reveal that cyber security reliance on proxy services peaked during the COVID-19 crisis, especially in the most heated months from March to May 2020. This was impacted by the increase of malicious domains, ransomware attacks, and malware during this destabilising period
The US NIST has announced the publication of NISTIR 8276, ‘Key Practices in Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM): Observations from Industry’. This aims to provide digital businesses with a set of Key Practices that can be used to manage cyber security risks associated with their supply chains.
BlackBerry Limited has released the 2021 BlackBerry Threat Report, detailing a sharp rise in cyber threats facing organizations since the onset of COVID-19. The research shows a cybercrime industry which not only adapted to new digital habits, but also became increasingly successful in finding and targeting vulnerable organizations.
Deloitte has published the results of a survey which highlights how business continuity requirements have encouraged many organizations to speed up moves to ‘Everything-as-a-Service’ (XaaS) solutions.
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is a particularly fast-growing sector of the business continuity and disaster recovery market. Here, Ginger Woolridge explains why this is, looks at the benefits that DraaS brings, and discusses how it is likely to develop in 2021.
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