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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released Capability Enhancement Guide (CEG): Social Media Account Protection, which details ways to protect the security of organization-run social media accounts. 

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.

CK Chim has been named the new Field Chief Security Officer (CSO) for the Asia Pacific Region at Cybereason.

Ben Carr, an experienced global cybersecurity executive, has been named the new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Cradlepoint.

The US-CERT Vulnerability database has recorded 18376 vulnerabilities as of December 8, 2021, which exceeds the 2020 record of 18351.

How do cybersecurity and executive leaders communicate about ransomware? A new (ISC)² study provides insights for cybersecurity professionals into the minds of C-suite executives and how they perceive their organizations’ readiness for ransomware attacks.

2021 will be a record-breaking year for data breaches. Security magazine brings you a list of 2021’s top 10 data breaches and exposures, and a few other noteworthy mentions.
 

Digital transformation, remote access and more: these are some of the benefits of considering a zero trust approach to cloud security.