Good news on the cybercrime front: "Cryptocurrency-related crime fell significantly in 2020," compared to 2019, reports blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. Unfortunately, in the same timeframe, ransomware profits surged 311%, stoking calls for a crackdown on ransom payments.
An investigation at the U.S. Treasury Department has found that it suffered a "significant" breach as a result of the SolarWinds Orion supply chain attack, a top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee reports. Meanwhile President-elect Joe Biden said of the attack: "I promise you, there will be a response."
New Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions were built to unify multiple prevention, detection and response technologies into a single platform to provide comprehensive visibility and protection. As cyber-threats become more sophisticated and niche protection solutions remain frustratingly disconnected, a...
New Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions were built to unify multiple prevention, detection and response technologies into a single platform to provide comprehensive visibility and protection. As cyber-threats become more sophisticated and niche protection solutions remain frustratingly disconnected, a...
As businesses around the world grapple with momentous changes to working practices, cyber-criminals are exploiting the uncertainty with tools, techniques and procedures that outsmart legacy tools.
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Are insurers getting cold feet over covering losses to ransomware? With claims due to ransomware skyrocketing, some insurers have reportedly been revising offerings to make it tougher for companies to claim for some types of cybercrime, including extortion.
By consolidating data from different sources, XDR positions itself as an attack-centric tool and not a role-centric tool, which Prateek Bhajanka, senior principal analyst at Gartner, says helps it to detect attacks from anywhere.
Like you, cybercriminals are on their own digital transformation journey. Trends like remote work, Internet of Things (IoT), bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and cloud initiatives have given hackers new ways to infiltrate your organization by exponentially expanding the attack surface. Technologies like artificial...
This comprehensive survey of 5,000 IT managers reveals the reality of the human side of cybersecurity. It explores plans for human-led threat hunting, the impact of the cybersecurity skills shortage, and how ransomware affects IT teams over and above any financial, reputational, and operational impact.
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70% of successful breaches started at the endpoint in 2019. Since then, a global pandemic has caused a large-scale shift to remote work creating a perfect storm for privilege abuse.
As a result, malware has increased by 30,000% in 2020. This is especially concerning when many companies still rely on antivirus...
Legacy endpoint security approaches are complex, resource-intensive and require multiple point products. Many solutions focus on stopping known attack methods but leave organizations vulnerable to new threats.
It doesn't have to be this way. There is a new, better approach - intrinsic security.
Cloud adoption continues to accelerate in the enterprise - as does the complexity of cloud infrastructure. For security professionals, this means even more that needs to be seen, integrated, and managed - from across your cloud environments to your SIEM, EDR, and more. In order to properly secure the cloud to enable...
A hacking group targeting Iranian dissidents has developed malware that can bypass two-factor authentication protection on Android devices to steal passwords, according to Check Point Research. The hackers have also targeted victims' Telegram accounts.
Privileged access represents one of the largest security vulnerabilities in today's digital landscape. Privileged accounts, credentials and secrets are everywhere throughout your IT infrastructure: on-premises, across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, in applications, on endpoints and in DevOps pipeline.
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