The most recent Microsoft Security Intelligence Report indicates that phishing attacks are now by far the most frequent threat to the cyber landscape, increasing a massive 250% since the previous report.
As enterprises work to weather the COVID-19 crisis, they are applying the lessons learned to strengthen their cyber resilience, and to embed data security, privacy and compliance into their IT infrastructure.
In today’s threat landscape, security professionals aren’t short on signals. Rather, they’re drowning in them. From endpoint telemetry to user activity to cloud platform events, we’re collecting more indicators than ever before. Despite the volume of alerts, or perhaps because of them, organizations still struggle to detect threats early and accurately.
Bypassing of security during the successful heist of the Bellagio vault came down to identity and perimeter defenses, the main vulnerabilities of network security—and exactly the weaknesses that zero trust methodology fortifies for organizations.
Today, crime data is heavily used in security and police work to cut down on criminal activity instead of simply reacting to crime. Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) technology is getting better and using data correctly can help police forces get better.
With the significant increase in the number of cyberattacks, focus of employees returning to the office should not only be on healthcare-related practices but must also address hardware security risks.
As we move into 2022, developments in ransomware, growing data sprawl, hybrid working, the nascent but growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies will continue to make a significant impact on data protection and management.
Biometric technology is advancing rapidly and regulations need to keep up. What are some of the challenges and how they should be addressed to secure digital data?
Instead of introducing an entirely new regime, the UK Government should explore the use of privacy enhancing technology to enable organisations to share and analyse personal data in a privacy-preserving manner, to create opportunities and unlock the power of data using innovative and trustworthy applications.
Covid highlighted the need for organizations to fully understand the world of their information and to mature their information governance program. While we are still reevaluating where we work, it is the perfect time to also reevaluate how we work.
