The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin announced the Leadership in Health Care Privacy and Security Risk Management certificate program, a first-in-the-nation professional program designed to help address a critical workforce shortage issue.

Fifty-seven percent of enterprises surveyed globally are using multi-factor authentication (57 percent), up by 12 percent from last years findings.

Account takeover and fraud schemes are costing consumers, banks, retail organizations, healthcare and other online businesses billions of dollars each year. What’s more, the cost of these attacks is on the rise—according to Riskified, losses from account takeover rose 122 percent from 2016 to 2017 and increased by 164 percent the following year.

The OASIS international consortium has announced an industry initiative to bring interoperability and data sharing across cybersecurity products.

Alabama's DCH Health System chose to pay ransom after hackers disrupted their computer systems and threatened to shutdown their services. 

Selim Aissi, Ellie Mae's Chief Security Officer, has been selected CISO of the Year.

Dr. Eman El-Sheikh, director of the University of West Florida Center for Cybersecurity, will serve on the newly established Florida Cybersecurity Task Force.