Cyberattackers love to strike on weekends and holidays - that's not news. What is news: These attacks cost more than weekday incidents, and they take a heavy toll on defenders. Cybereason's Sam Curry shares insight from the new study "Organizations at Risk: Ransomware Attackers Don’t Take Holidays."
Complexity is the enemy of security, and information technology grows ever more complex. Have we created a problem space in computing so complicated that we will be unable to safely operate in it for its intended purposes? Fred Cohen says that's unlikely. He discusses managing risk in the future.
When it comes to advanced threat response, most financial institutions say their current abilities are average. Only one-third say automation is crucial to how they identify and respond to threats. This panel of APAC and ANZ experts analyzes the state of security automation in financial services.
With massive digitization and cloud adoption, the attack surface has broadened and new threats have emerged. Challenges like ransomware, supply chain attacks and financial fraud continue to pose problems for security practitioners.
The State of Ransomware report in 2021 states that, 77% of retail organizations were hit by ransomware, up from 44% in 2020.
This is a 75% rise over the course of a year, demonstrating that adversaries have become more capable.
In fact, in 2021, retail reported the second highest rate of ransomware attacks of...
In this report, 55% of manufacturing and production organizations were hit by ransomware in 2021, up from 36% in 2020.
This is a 52% increase over the course of a year, demonstrating that adversaries have become considerably more capable of executing the most significant attacks at scale.
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The rise in successful ransomware attacks is part of an increasingly challenging threat environment that has affected organizations across all sectors, including state and local government.
In this report 58% of local government organizations were hit by ransomware in 2021, up from 34% in 2020.
This is a 70%...
In 2022, 56% of lower education organizations and 64% of higher education organizations were hit by ransomware in the last year.
This is a considerable increase from the 44% of education respondents that reported an attack in our 2021 survey (based on 499 respondents across lower and higher education).
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In 2021, 66% of healthcare organizations were hit by ransomware, which is a 94% increase from 2020.
The Healthcare industry saw the highest increase in volume of ransomware attacks as part of an increasingly challenging broader threat environment which has affected them more than any other sector.
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A startup that was reportedly almost acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $600 million has instead raised $100 million to forge ahead on its own. App security vendor Apiiro plans to use the proceeds to strengthen its ability to analyze code and developer activities across the software supply chain.
One of many impactful ways organizations using MDR can benefit is reducing their time to detect and respond from typically 280 days to as little as a few minutes – thereby dramatically reducing the impact of an event.
This Infographic focuses on the top 5 reasons on why MDR should be the top priority for every...
According to this report, the tangible returns from investments in MDR include:
90% reduction in time to detect high-risk threats that require investigation;
95% reduction in time to identifying the source of attack and type of threats;
Improved accuracy of detections.
With the increasing volume in...
Organizations expect the IT security landscape to be consistent - from builds and hardware to operating systems - but for product security, everything Honeywell makes is a snowflake with flexible, highly tailored design across many technologies, says Honeywell Product Security Chief James DeLuccia.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework has been around for years, but we are now seeing it being adopted by organizations more as they realize the need for a strong IT security team and more funding is becoming available to increase the maturity of information security programs.
This framework helps organizations manage cyber...
A surging Microsoft has leapfrogged to the top of the SIEM Gartner Magic Quadrant, catapulting past security operations stalwarts IBM, Splunk, Securonix and Exabeam. Microsoft has climbed from being named a visionary by Gartner last year to crushing the SIEM market in execution ability this year.
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