Holding companies legally accountable, sharing information, and creating shared security standards won’t completely eradicate ransomware attacks. But they will make it considerably harder to carry out those attacks successfully.
APAC organizations are 80% more likely than the global average to be the target of a cyber-attack. How do organizations achieve cyber resilience as ransomware attacks shift to RansomOps?
Ransomware has quickly grown from an annoyance to a life-threatening problem plaguing organizations in all industries. Organizations should address the two most common attack vectors, open RDP on the internet and the human factor.
There is now a new breed of highly sophisticated cyber criminals who are attracted by the huge financial gains made possible by highly targeted ransomware attacks. Today, with IoT being adopted across a wide variety of industries, it seems that it’s only a matter of time before cyber criminals take Internet of Things (IoT) devices hostage using ransomware, potentially placing hundreds of thousands of people at risk. In this article, we examine the rising threat of ransomware, the potential impact on the IoT environment and how we can avoid a global ransomware pandemic.
Advertisers are expected to lose $100 million a day to digital ad fraud in the next five years, what preventive approach that business can take to protect themselves?
Many companies were blindsided by the time and cost to sustain GDPR compliance. With CCPA coming into effect, what should companies do to develop a sustainable compliance program?
For people to build good cyber hygiene habits, they need ongoing reinforcement that keeps these activities top of mind. Technology teams must regularly communicate with their end-users, treating them like customers and partners, to build a proactive mindset over time that bleeds into the user’s security mindset.
In June 2016 the Korean government announced new guidelines on personal data de-identification measures which have contributed to a greater clarity around the use and transfer of personal data for purposes other than those consented to by the data subject. How will they positively impact the big data market?
As malicious actors increasingly zero in on supply chain attacks, both third-party solutions providers and end users must make a more concentrated effort to shift to a ‘validation before implementation’ model.
Put to the test, more than 50 U.K. universities were found to be very vulnerable to cyber attacks. Jisc's team of penetration testers were able to breach defenses in one to two hours with a 100% breach rate.
