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Venafi has published the findings of new research that evaluates the security impact of the increasing number of nation-state attacks and recent shifts in geopolitics. The survey of over 1,100 security decision makers globally found that 66 percent of organizations have changed their cyber security strategy as a direct response to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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Securing the right talent has always been a challenge in the technology field, but it is now more pressing than ever and is critical for effective cyber resilience. Bryan Patton says that automation is one of the keys to dealing with this area.
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Bocada recently commissioned a survey of over 260 IT professionals responsible for managing or influencing backup operations. The results showed that while traditional backup monitoring challenges continue to plague backup professionals, new issues are also impacting the category.
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Radware has released its First Half 2022 Global Threat Analysis Report. The mid-year report leverages intelligence provided by network and application attack activity sourced from Radware’s Cloud and Managed Services, Global Deception Network, and threat research team.
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Given the significant risk that quantum computing poses to existing encryption methods, the Government of Canada has announced new investment in finding future solutions for cyber resilience in a quantum era.
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Response-based attacks targeting corporate inboxes have climbed to their highest volume since 2020, representing 41 percent of all email-based scams targeting employees, during Q2 of this year.
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Team82 has identified a novel attack that weaponizes programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in order to exploit engineering workstations. The method is being termed the ‘Evil PLC Attack’ by Team82.
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Passwords are outdated, vulnerable, and an unacceptable basis for cyber resilience in today’s organizations says Patrick McBride. In this article he explains why this is the case and looks at the way forward.
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Digital twins are increasingly being used to model systems of interconnected things. Here Matthew Margetts defines what a digital twin is, and suggests where the technology is headed.
- Applying the Swiss cheese model to cyber resilience
- Quarterly HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report highlights growing use of shortcut files to deliver malware
- Q2 2022 Quarterly Threat Report shows continued high growth in cyber threats
- Cyber attacks have become ‘firmly entrenched as a state-level weapon’
