The Security team compiled this year’s top news stories, spanning international data breaches to COVID-19 risk assessments.

Sixty-nine percent of people worldwide say they have confidence in their local police, but nation by nation, the sentiment is quite different.

Catastrophic fires that result in property damage costing at the least $10 million, otherwise known as large-loss fires, are a growing concern due to inefficient fire protection systems and climate change.

Authorities in Nigeria are planning to employ biometrics in a nationwide census.

U.S. parents’ concern for their children’s physical safety at school has held steady this year at 28 percent, according to an August Gallup poll.

For three decades, Bill Zalud served as a leader and reporter in the security industry, serving as Editor for both Security magazine and SDM Magazine throughout his tenure.

Mass shootings, data breaches, malware attacks – today’s news is more than a story to you. It reflects the challenges you face on a daily basis

Sixty-six percent of data protection leaders admit that employees are the weakest link in an enterprise’s security posture, and 55 percent of organizations have had a security incident or data breach due to a malicious or negligent employee, according to the Ponemon Institute’s report on Managing Insider Risk through Training and Culture.

In 2015, companies took an average of 46 calendar days to close whistleblower cases, up from 39 in 2014 and 32 in 2011, according to NAVEX Global’s 2016 Ethics & Compliance Hotline Benchmark Report.

With risk management and strategic risk playing a growing role in enterprise decision-making, stakeholders are eager to gain more insight into their daily operations and potential risk areas.