President Biden’s Executive Order includes a provision that would require software vendors selling to the federal government to maintain a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.
As stay-at-home restrictions start to loosen with COVID-19 cases declining, the office reopening is going to bring an increase in cybersecurity risks that companies should be prepared for.
In addition to five new state privacy laws, 2024 is expected to bring not only an amplified number of cyberattacks but also increasingly sophisticated attacks, including using emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), in what is a quickly and continuously evolving threat landscape.
There is the need for additional cyber defenses of growing 5G networks – and we should expect to see increasing policy pressure around the vetting process for hardware and software that are crucial to these upgraded networks. This is raising the importance of supply chain risk management for the telecommunications industry.
The popularity of online gaming surged during the COVID-19 pandemic—and so did cyberattacks against gamers with 5.8 million attacks detected over the past year. Cybercriminals are becoming experts in deception which makes them increasingly difficult to detect.
For most organizations, especially small and mid-market businesses, tracking who is behind an attack delivers far less value than understanding what attackers are doing and how to defend against it.
Phishing emails are highly effective today because workers have been groomed to have an immediate response to them. Here is a breakdown of each of these widely-used cognitive responses.
Ransomware attacks have been a highlight of mainstream media. By taking a preventative approach, businesses can deploy a combination of education, processes, hardware and software to detect, combat and recover from attacks if they were to arise.
Phishing attacks known as CEO Fraud or Business Email Compromise are affecting the bottom line of companies and are devastating because the spoof emails have all the appearances of being real, and the victims voluntarily hand over the money.
Everyone understands the logic behind picking longer, more complicated passwords that are harder for bad actors to figure out and therefore better to protect sensitive and valuable information. But consumers’ bad password habits are still very much prevalent.
