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Acer has been hit with a $50 million ransomware demand, in what appears to be one of the biggest ransomware demands to date.

After a test phase in April, sworn university police officers will begin a full roll out of wearing body cameras by May of this year.

If security forces are going to perform more functions, which they should...they need additional training. More training for your security teams is an expensive proposition, but an all-important one. 

Mitel appoints Arvind Raman as Chief Information Security Officer.

Risk professionals take note. Experts say the greatest cybersecurity risks to local governments and their "smart city" programs are emergency alert systems, video surveillance devices and traffic signals - a greater risk than breaches of open data, water consumption and gunshot detection technologies and more.

This past year has been a challenging one for many business owners and employees who’ve been forced to leave the office environment and switch to working from home (WFH) full time. Whilst this undoubtedly has its benefits, the risk of data breaches has exponentially grown. With that in mind, the Digital Marketing experts at Reboot Online surveyed 1,198 business owners and employees across the UK on their experiences with data breaches and password security in the past year (2020/2021). Key findings include:

Expert in security advisory services, program design and the application of technology to risk management, Lianne Kennedy-Boudali joins Control Risks’ Crisis and Security Consulting department in the Americas as a Principal. 

According to the Emergency Nurses Association, healthcare workers account for approximately 50% of all victims of workplace violence. But they're not the only ones either. There are reports of increased domestic violence and workplace violence around the world as a result of lockdowns from the pandemic, increased stress levels and a lower threshold for confrontation.

Backblaze, Inc., a storage cloud company, appointed Mark Potter as Chief Information Security Officer as the company continues to bolster its leadership team to drive growth.