Last year was the most costly and dangerous year on record for businesses dealing with ransomware attacks. That\’s according to network security experts, SonicWall, who by Q3 2021 were reporting an almost 150% year-on-year increase in ransomware attacks worldwide. If […]
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What keeps security managers and analysts up at night? According to the bi-annual Voice of SecOps Report–a survey from Deep Instinct–there are a variety of persistent challenges that cybersecurity professionals worry about. The bigger issue, however, is that despite these
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic transformed the global workforce. Research indicates approximately 20% of people worked remotely all or most of the time before the pandemic. As of December 2020, this figure reached 71% — and it may continue to climb.
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Every organization is looking for the best endpoint security—a way to protect their assets, especially with today’s rapidly changing threat landscape and increasingly regulated business environment. Getting breached has consequences not only for an organization’s customers, users and the bottom
The current state of AV testing is sort of the cybersecurity version of standardized testing in schools. It’s a pet peeve of mine when schools “teach the test”–focusing on ensuring students perform adequately on standardized tests rather than making sure
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2015 was quite a year! Hacks and ransomware got personal. APT attacks and cybercrime-as-a service became widespread. The scary future of IoT hacking became a reality with the demonstration of self-driving car hacks. And, a new threat vector of mobile devices
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If you’ve ever owned a safety deposit box at a bank—or seen one on TV or in a movie—then you know that it requires two keys to open it. If you recall the beginning of the movie War Games it
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Windows already has fairly effective controls that analyze applications and decide which ones should be allowed to run and which might be a threat. The problem is that Windows itself can be compromised, which means attackers can potentially hijack or
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