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Egnyte has released its Cybersecurity Trends for Mid-Sized Organizations Report, a mid-year update to its Data Governance Trends Report. The study – based on a survey of 400 US C-level executives conducted by Wakefield Research – examines key trends
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According to a recent survey conducted by the Neustar International Security Council (NISC), two-thirds (67 percent) of organizations have secondary DNS solutions in place, largely to ensure resilience in the event of an attack or outage. However, one-third of enterprises continue to operate with only one DNS service in place
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Apple, Google, and Microsoft have recently announced that they intend to accelerate the availability of passwordless sign-ins using the common passwordless sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Julia O'Toole questions this approach and asks whether it is the result of confusing identity and access control.
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Over a third (36 percent) of organizations fear the risk of a security breach or incident due to an incompatible application on the latest version of Windows, according to new research of UK and US CIOs commissioned by Cloudhouse.
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The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it developing a new post-quantum cryptographic standard to replace current public-key cryptography, which is vulnerable to quantum-based attack. Despite the 2024 timescale, NIST says that organizations should start preparing for the transition now
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Titaniam’s new ‘State of Data Exfiltration & Extortion Report’ finds that while over 70 percent of organizations have an existing set of prevention, detection, and backup solutions, nearly 40 percent of organizations have been hit with ransomware attacks in the last year.
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The number of UK organizations implementing data encryption as a core part of their cyber resilience strategy has continued to rise, with 32 percent introducing a policy to encrypt all corporate information as standard in the last year.
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SANS Security Awareness has published its seventh annual SANS Security Awareness Report, which includes the results from a survey of 1,000 security awareness professionals worldwide.
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Saket Modi, CEO at Safe Security, explains why he thinks the current way of doing cyber security in many organizations is broken as far too much of the risk analysis and associated decisions are based on estimates and guesswork, instead of using a knowledge-based approach.
