A review of 10,072,682 emails revealed 203,000 malicious links within were deemed safe by security systems – a ratio of one unstopped malicious link for every 50 emails inspected.
More than a quarter (27%) of enterprise IT departments in the US are forced to wait at least a month before installing vital security updates, due to budgetary restraints and overly complex infrastructures.
Bob Kolasky, acting assistant secretary for infrastructure protection at the Department of Homeland Security’s National Protection and Programs Directorate, has been named director of the National Risk Management Center (NRMC), reported Meritalk.
More than 7 million data records are stolen every day.
July 27, 2018
As companies and businesses rely more on technological advancements to collect and store consumer information, they run the risk of exposing sensitive data to anyone from malicious groups to tech-savvy individuals.
A study IBM Security and conducted by Ponemon Institute found that the average cost of a data breach globally is $3.86 million, a 6.4 percent increase from the 2017 report.