You make password decisions every week. Maybe you create a new account, reset a password or respond to a password change prompt. And each time you make a seemingly small…
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Building Effective Business Cases to Cover Cybersecurity Costs
With the global average cost of a data breach totaling $3.86 million in 2020, the topic of security continues to be a major pressure point and a board-level agenda item.…
Data Breach Costs at Record High, Zero Trust, AI and Automation Help Reduce Costs
Data breaches have been growing in numbers and scale, taking longer to detect and contain. The average total cost of a data breach is at its highest of 17 years,…
What’s New in the 2021 Cost of a Data Breach Report
Has cybersecurity ever been more important than it is right now? Even in these extraordinary times, with its focus on manufacturing vaccines and getting shots into arms, new research in…
Thriving in Chaos: How Cyber Resilience Works
In cybersecurity as in most jobs, problems don’t happen one at a time, you’re bound to have a few at once. Speakers at the RSA Conference 2021 talked about this…
Beyond Ransomware: Four Threats Facing Companies Today
The recent DarkSide attack makes it clear: no system is safe from ransomware. And while the attackers say they weren’t out to hurt anyone, only to make money, the impact…
Cyber Insurers Might Be Making the Ransomware Problem Worse
In mid-May, one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S. paid $40 million to ransomware attackers. Two people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the malicious actors stole…
Your Home Away From Home May Not Be as Cybersecure as You Think
Home is where the ‘smart’ is. A recent study revealed the average American household has 25 connected or Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The number of consumers who have smart…
RoboSki and Global Recovery: Automation to Combat Evolving Obfuscation
In a recent collaboration to investigate a rise in malware infections featuring a commercial remote access trojan (RAT), IBM Security X-Force and Cipher Tech Solutions (CT), a defense and intelligence…
What’s Next for SIEM? A View From the 2021 Gartner SIEM Magic Quadrant
Security information and event management (SIEM) solutions continue to evolve, as shown in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM, which is a great representation of the changing security landscape…