Security spoke to Bill Wright, Director of Federal Government Affairs at Splunk, for a deeper dive into strategies federal organizations can use to facilitate expedited zero trust adoption.
As the vaccine rollout continues and organizations are planning their hybrid work plans, they must ensure this return to a physical office, even if it’s partial, doesn’t open them up to cybersecurity threats. Here, Rick McElroy, Principal Cybersecurity Strategist at VMware, discusses what chief information security officers should keep in mind as we get closer to returning to physical offices.
A recent International Data Corporation (IDC) survey found that more than one-third of organizations worldwide have experienced a ransomware attack or breach that blocked access to systems or data in the previous 12 months.
U.S. Secret Service agents and agency task force of partners have been named in multiple categories of awards as announced by the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators.
Over the course of these games, it’s become increasingly clear that the organizers did indeed exercise preventative measures and that despite the challenges and limitations of holding an Olympics during a pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics have been a real success story from a cybersecurity perspective. Organizers of all large-scale, televised sporting events—and indeed just all organizations in general—should look to this year’s games as a model to emulate.
Ransom-related distributed denial of service (RDDoS) is a more prevalent threat to organizations than ransomware, according to new research, with 70% of victims targeted multiple times.
Organizations should ready a comprehensive ransomware preparedness strategy ahead of time that is adapted depending upon the severity of an attack. Here are four steps leadership should follow in developing a ransomware response strategy.
As businesses navigate this new frontier, there are a number of key issues that they should consider, both for implementing their own cybersecurity protections, as well as adjusting expectations for government involvement in cyberattacks moving forward.
From leaking company data to ransomware, remote employees have created a host of new challenges for security professionals. So how can security professionals work to better protect their organizations?
In a sense, it is understandable why so much business and consumer coverage of tech security is driven by the latest high-profile breach. After all, good security that works and prevents malware and ransomware attacks does not generate headlines. However, to those of us active in information archiving and cloud security and who understand the blessings and dangers of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in the cloud, for example, it sure is maddening.
