Seventy-four percent of organizations are impacted by the cybersecurity skills shortage, according to a study of cybersecurity professionals by the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) reintroduced the Data Breach Prevention and Compensation Act to hold large credit reporting agencies (CRAs)-including Equifax-accountable for data breaches involving consumer data.
Cyberattacks by nation states and parties affiliated with them represent 23 percent of data breaches, up from 12 percent in 2018 and 19 percent in 2017, according to the Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).
We have been hearing about the “convergence” of physical and cyber security for years, but even today there are still debates about whether it has happened yet (spoiler alert: it hasn’t). Part of the challenge might be that the word convergence itself can apply to more than one kind of activity – for example, some believe it applies to the linkages or integration of IT and security systems, while others believe it applies to IT and security organizational structures and teams.
New technologies, including cloud computing, the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, are constantly bringing new opportunities and challenges to attackers and defenders alike. This is not just the age of machines but of machine-scale. As such, IT security analysts need new tools to defend the network.
Nearly half (47 percent) of security professionals are already using, planning or exploring deployment of PAM solutions in the cloud, according to the Thycotic 2019 RSA Conference Survey.
The increase of healthcare internet-of-things (IoT) devices has exposed a vulnerable attack surface that can be exploited by cybercriminals to steal personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), according to the Vectra 2019 Spotlight Report on Healthcare.
