In external penetration testing undertaken for corporate clients in industrial, financial, and transport verticals in 2018, Positive Technologies found that, at the vast majority of companies, there were multiple vectors in which an attacker could reach the internal network.
A new report from The Bunker has highlighted that senior executives are still often the weakest link in the corporate cyber security chain and that cyber criminals target this vulnerability to commit serious data breaches.
As the volume and variety of cyber attacks on businesses continue to grow, the need for better incident response has never been greater. Stephen Moore discusses how to build an effective CSIRT and the role it can play in protecting an enterprise in the event of a breach.
ENISA, the EU security agency, has released an online tool aimed at helping IoT users to conduct risk assessments and to save time when identifying threats and prioritising security areas of importance.
In 2018, the European cyber threat landscape changed significantly. The most important threat agent groups, namely cyber criminals and state-sponsored actors have further advanced their motives and tactics.
BSI’s global centre of excellence for Cybersecurity and Information Resilience has forecast three key emerging trends across the cybersecurity landscape for 2019:
There is substantial room for improvement in the use of cyber threat intelligence (CTI), according to the results of the 2019 SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Survey. CTI is a resource for network defense / defence at a majority of survey respondents’ organizations, with 72 percent either consuming or producing it.
A new report published by Lloyds explores the impacts and economic costs of a future highly effective ransomware attack and concludes that the global economy is not ready to deal with such an attack.
Companies globally could incur US$5.2 trillion in additional costs and lost revenue over the next five years due to cyber attacks, as dependency on complex Internet-enabled business models outpaces the ability to introduce adequate safeguards that protect critical assets, according to a new report from Accenture.
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