Preventing identity-based attacks such as account takeover (ATO) fraud and Business Email Compromise (BEC) begins with securing your personally identifiable information (PII), but this seems to be increasingly difficult as cybercriminals continue to evolve.

The number of new identity records and the depth of personal information available in exfiltrated data are expanding, creating a blueprint of digital identities that threat actors can weaponize and expose identity information.

New KnowBe4 study, The Rise of Security Culture, finds that the majority of security leaders (94 percent) say security culture is important for business success, but have yet to merge their security strategies with their overall business strategies.

Threat actors are selling more than 309 million Facebook profiles for $623 on dark web sites and hacker forums. 

Risk remains the top concern for organizations adopting software-as-a-service (SaaS) models and this is an issue that is only getting worse. What is needed today is the ability to remove the dependency on human behavior and human error, bringing control back to the security team.

Nearly two-thirds of healthcare organizations globally have experienced a cyberattack in their lifetime, while 53 percent were attacked within the last 12 months, according to new research by Keeper Security. 

While many cybersecurity attacks and breaches happen at major enterprise organizations, the reality is cybercriminals don’t discriminate by size and the aftermath of an attack can devastate a small business.

The IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2020 highlights how cybercriminals' techniques have evolved after decades of access to tens of billions of corporate and personal records and hundreds of thousands of software flaws. 

Nearly half of all companies surveyed in a report have delayed moving an application into production because of concerns over security of containers or Kubernetes.