Australian shipping giant Toll Group recently suffered its second ransomware outbreak of the year, with Thomas Knudsen, the company's managing director, branding the latest attack as being "serious and regrettable." But was it preventable?
If an organization fails to stop a ransomware attack, how does it recover the data? Backups, of course, are essential. But Peter Marelas of Dell Technologies says organizations should have a well-developed strategy for backups because attackers are increasingly targeting those systems as well.
Supermarket giant Morrisons is not liable for a data breach caused by a rogue employee, Britain's Supreme Court has ruled, bringing to a close the long-running case - the first in the country to have been filed by data breach victims.
Across the globe, the abrupt transition to remote work has accelerated digital transformation at an unprecedented pace. As workloads shift to the cloud, moving away from hardware-bound infrastructure, major security gaps have been exposed. Methods that may have worked in the past: locking down endpoints, monitoring...
It is a lot for IT teams to handle a remote workforce. Keeping up with security issues, maintaining data compliance, and minimizing data loss are some of the challenges IT teams are facing today.
In this webinar, we will cover how IT and security teams can empower end-users working remotely by increasing their...
Across the globe, the abrupt transition to remote work has accelerated digital transformation at an unprecedented pace. As workloads shift to the cloud, moving away from hardware-bound infrastructure, major security gaps have been exposed. Methods that may have worked in the past: locking down endpoints, monitoring...
The Forrester Wave��: Data Security Portfolio Vendors, Q2 2019, is a key industry report for helping security and risk professionals understand and assess the data security solution landscape, and how these solutions can address their business and technology challenges.
Download the report to learn why Forrester...
As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, cybercriminals increasingly are targeting organizations that now have more remote workers and fewer IT and security staff at the ready to mitigate hacker attacks and intrusions, security experts say.
According to Ricardo Villadiego, Lumu Technologies' Founder and CEO, organizations are "sitting on a gold mine: their own data". Under the single premise that organizations should assume they are compromised and prove otherwise, Lumu seeks to empower enterprises to answer the most basic question: Is your organization...
Unstructured data stores - text documents, excel spreadsheets, emails, pdfs and more - store untold volumes of personal and customer data. And as privacy and data protection regulations like the GDPR, CCPA, and NYDFS come into the spotlight, it's more important than ever to implement a privacy-centric approach to data...
Retailers and ecommerce organizations are responsible for handling a wealth of customer data, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as names, addresses, credit card details and passwords.
However, this access to customer data makes retailers one of the biggest target groups for cybercriminals....
Website breaches are becoming a daily occurrence. Organizations, entrusted with millions of customer data points, are failing to protect consumers adequately and as a consequence, losing valuable data.
Despite the expectation that companies should be prepared for both accidents and deliberate attacks, there is a...
2018 saw a further increase in the frequency and complexity of cyberattacks being levelled at organizations and in several cases, resulted in high-profile customer data breaches. Global companies such as Facebook, Uber and Quora all fell victim to cyberattacks that left them facing huge financial costs and...
New Ensighten research shows 83% of global organizations anticipate a potential data breach - yet two-thirds are not armed for prevention against this cyber threat. The risks revealed by this research into these concerning approaches to data security vulnerabilities cannot be allowed to persist, lest they threaten...
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