While the digital advertising industry revenue grew a record 35.4% in 2021 and is on pace for another banner year in 2022, it’s also under intense regulatory and consumer scrutiny and increased demands for improved data privacy standards.
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
Organizations can realize their full potential with the help of a comprehensive and integrated portfolio of identity management offerings, which includes account management, identity governance and administration, and privileged access management.
Privileged access management is a set of procedures, guidelines, and technological tools that guarantee that superusers and privileged users who share administrative credentials behave appropriately, that access is granted only when necessary, and that an audit trail is always maintained.
Hive ransomware group claimed responsibility for the cyber attack on Tata Power and began leaking stolen data, including sensitive employee and company information after ransom negotiations had conclusively failed.
The cybersecurity workforce has grown by a little over 11% since last year, filling 464,000 more positions, but the workforce gap has more than doubled during that time due to increased demand.
Security researchers discovered a command and control (C2) server for MajikPOS and Treasure Hunter POS malware variants with over 167,000 stolen credit cards worth over $3.3 million.
There are a number of pitfalls to successful ransomware recovery and not all of them are technical. To truly dig into tackling the problem in the most efficient, quick, and cost-effective manner possible, while bringing things back up safely, we need to calculate risk.
According to an internal investigation that concluded in September of this year, the credit card theft window may have been open for just over 30 months. See Tickets has sold as many as 20 million tickets per year.
Thomson Reuters database leak exposed 3TB of platform information and customer data after the media company left three databases unsecured and publicly accessible for days.
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