This year’s Online Trust Audit shows dramatic increases in overall website security across all sectors, with a jump from 52% to 70% of websites making to Honor Roll. However, privacy scores were lower overall this year.
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.
As the shift to smart home management takes hold, a critical element to its success will be gaining consumer trust. To gain that trust all the devices required to make a home “smart” will be security.
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Combining elements of information security, business continuity, and organizational resilience, a cyber resilience strategy can enable rapid recovery from an inevitable attack with little to no operational disruption.
With the right incident response expertise, tools, and strategy, organizations can turn seemingly disastrous events into moments for real learning, further preparation, and actionable business insight.
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Dark web forum posts indicate that low- or even no-skill threat actors have figured out how to manipulate ChatGPT instructions to get it to produce basic but viable malware.
Latest Instagram password leak has exposed 10,000 plaintext credentials in the SocialCaptain app, allowing anyone to access any app profile by entering a unique user ID into a public URL.
Three common problems regularly hold back cybersecurity strategies – not testing enough, not resolving or disclosing known vulnerabilities, and not having proper security programs in place to measure testing effectiveness.
If cyber insurance providers want to create a better system that can reduce claims and better protect their policyholders, they cannot ignore the biggest driver of cyberattacks – password security.