Articles Tagged with ''cyber security''

Nearly two-thirds (64%) of business decisionmakers are anticipating COVID-themed phishing attacks targeting their company to increase in 2021, according to new research.

The author discusses his company’s first-hand account of ransomware that hit the organization and how they navigated this difficult situation that many enterprises have found themselves in.

Domestic critical infrastructure is arguably now more at risk than at any point in living memory, and certainly in a peacetime context. As a consequence of the pandemic, there have been multiple attacks on electricity grids, water systems and energy organizations, election locations, and newly distributed enterprises. What is the best way to go about protecting what is at risk?

Mobile devices are part and parcel of today’s increasingly distributed workforce. Laptops, smartphones, and tablets are provisioned by enterprises to increase employee productivity, while providing flexibility to work remotely. But when the pandemic struck, security teams across industries were challenged by the unprecedented speed and scale of the shift. This disruption created great strain for IT security teams. Pair that with the increase in employee BYOD devices, already-overworked IT teams raced to ensure only authorized devices could connect to corporate assets. 

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Port San Antonio have partnered to expand the region’s cybersecurity and data analytics research and development ecosystem and increase workforce education and training.

The Port of Los Angeles is creating a Port Cyber Resilience Center (CRC) that will help protect the organization's supply chain from cyber-related breaches. The CRC will be a maritime Security Intelligence and Operations Center (SIOC) to automate threat collaboration and extend its reach beyond traditional maritime stakeholders to Port stakeholders that are more broadly involved in cargo flow, such cross-sector companies.