In all likelihood, Montana’s TikTok ban won’t stand up through the courts, which will lead to an even more confounding situation regarding TikTok’s very existence within the country.
Business communication tools are indispensable in today’s distributed working environments, both for internal communication between team members and for external communication with customers. But their use has attracted the attention of attackers who successfully exploit their security weaknesses and tailor their attacks to specific communication platforms.
Recent research shows that one third of enterprises lose more than 10% of their associated technology assets when offboarding workers, and 42% experience unauthorized access to SaaS applications and cloud resources.
In today’s corporate environment, everyone has become a privileged user accustomed to quick access and swift responses generated in seconds across platforms, vendors, and many different systems. A rigid and rule-bound access management system is no longer sufficient for companies that want to maintain a competitive edge.
Many companies have deployed what is known as ‘Security by Design’ to drive systemic and cultural improvements in cybersecurity. Now, organizations should apply the same approach to Privacy by Design — a systematic, automated, early-stage approach that treats data privacy as an integral part of all business activities.
Mobile spyware is not a threat that will lessen anytime soon. Mobile devices present an attack surface that is ripe for threat actors. To mitigate the mobile security risk at its root, organizations need to employ an agent on the devices they manage that analyzes applications installed and the SDKs within them.
Declining a ransom payment demand can leave the business at a standstill. Companies achieve better outcomes when they have a strategy and pre-defined path to act instantly and decisively to restore systems, resume operations, and defend against additional actions.
Data security has increasingly become a key aspect of cybersecurity because of the large amounts of data being generated, stored and shared by both individuals and organizations. The shift from cybersecurity to data security indicates a more holistic approach to protecting sensitive data in organizations.
CISA's new security-by-design and security-by-default guidance was released in collaboration with multiple other security agencies in the US as well as ones in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands, formalizing the principles at an international level for the first time.
By prioritizing asset management, organizations can enhance their security posture, optimize existing security investments, and meet compliance requirements, ultimately safeguarding their digital assets and operations in the cloud, on-prem, or hybrid environment.
