Global research commissioned by Versa Networks examining the adoption of secure access service edge (SASE) by businesses during the lockdown has revealed that the adoption of SASE has soared during the pandemic.
Despite the Director of the FBI, the US Attorney General and the White House warning firms against paying cyber-related ransoms, 60 percent of organizations have admitted they would make a payment in the event of a successful ransomware attack
25 percent of UK employees have previously had a dispute with IT staff about the importance or frequency of updating their work devices. Surprisingly, UK IT teams tend to agree with such demands and let 75 percent of staff skip installing updates on certain software or the OS.
Bitglass has released findings from its 2021 BYOD Security Report that show the risks associated with the rapid adoption of unmanaged personal devices connecting to work-related resources (BYOD).
1-in-5 manufacturing companies in the US and UK have been victims of a cyber attack in the last 12 months, according to the 2021 Manufacturing Cybersecurity Threat Index released by Morphisec.
Zscaler, Inc., has published ‘Exposed’, a global report on the state of corporate attack surfaces. Based on data sourced between February 2020 and April 2021, the report provides a look at the impact of attack surface exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Link11 Security Operations Center (LSOC) has recently observed a sharp increase in ransom distributed denial of service (RDDoS or RDoS) attacks. Enterprises from a wide range of business sectors are receiving extortion e-mails from the sender Fancy Lazarus demanding 2 Bitcoins (approx. 66,000 euros):
OpsCompass has announced the results of a report it conducted on cloud security and management challenges. The ‘2021 State of Cloud Security Posture Management Report’ is based on survey responses from 253 full-time, US-based, IT professionals who develop, and either deploy or manage enterprise cloud applications or infrastructure.
A new report from Tessian reveals that a majority of IT leaders (56 percent) believe that their employees have picked up bad cyber security behaviors / behaviours since working from home.
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