Compromised passwords led to many data breaches in 2021, a record-breaking year for cyber vulnerabilities. Dashlane compiled the sixth annual "Worst Password Offenders" list, which highlights high-profile cyber incidents.
Security professionals can use these four strategies to better protect themselves against third-party risk, which can lead to cyberattacks and data breaches.
A study from AdvisorSmith ranked sectors by their cost of cyber insurance. Organizations in the financial industry reported the highest cyber insurance expenses.
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in Java logging library Apache Log4j. Log4j is an open-source, Java-based logging utility widely used by enterprise applications and cloud services, meaning many organizations are at risk from threat actors actively exploiting this vulnerability.
National Cyber Resilience Centre Group (NCRCG) is comprised of government and corporate entities working together to ensure cybersecurity across the United Kingdom.
The information technology (IT) and communications sector was the most targeted by cyberattacks in 2021, according to data from Darktrace. This marks a shift from 2020, when the financial and insurance sector underwent the highest cyberattack volume.
It feels like IT and security pros are tasked with the impossible job of operating business-critical applications in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environments in the dark with no ability to monitor and protect them in runtime.
To manage unprecedented demand on the network, IT teams took to overprovisioning —
adding additional capacity to the network —
as a quick fix to maintain connections between employees, stakeholders and customers.
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