Working from home policies, whilst necessary to curtail COVID-19, have exposed smaller enterprises to a level of sophisticated cyber attack ordinarily reserved for large multi-nationals and the impact will lead to a further sharp rise in data breaches, according to Dave Waterson, CEO at security protection software company, SentryBay.
SonicWall Capture Labs threat researchers have published third-quarter threat intelligence collected by the company’s more than 1 million global security sensors. Year-to-date findings through to the end of September 2020 highlight regional variations in ransomware usage trends, while overall malware volume declined for the third consecutive quarter.
A security breach of a privileged account is a nightmare that organizations hope they will never need to respond to. Alan Radford explains how next generation privileged access management (PAM) solutions provide assurance in this area; and what such a PAM should include.
Positive Technologies (PT) performed instrumental scanning of the network perimeter of selected corporate information systems. A total of 3,514 hosts were scanned, including network devices, servers, and workstations. The results show the presence of high-risk vulnerabilities at most companies.
Trustwave has released the 2020 Trustwave Data Security Index report which shows how technology trends, compromise risks, and regulations are shaping how organizations’ data is stored and protected.
ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, has published the 8th annual ENISA Threat Landscape (ETL) report, identifying and evaluating the top cyber threats for the period January 2019-April 2020.
Asigra, Inc., has released a statement emphasizing the ‘importance of cybersecurity-enabled backup and recovery with software integrated step-up multi-factor authentication (‘Deep MFA’)’. The company says that this is increasingly important as immutability storage subversion attacks expose corporate backup repositories to hackers
Researchers have developed a novel control architecture that defends complex, interconnected systems previously vulnerable to cyber attacks. Details were published in the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica.
The BCI has published its latest thought leadership report, which looks at how business continuity professionals should work with their counterparts in IT and/or cyber security to increase resilience across the organization.
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
