With coronavirus crisis creating new opportunities for cybercriminals, 70 percent of organizations are seeing the value of increasing their investments in cybersecurity solutions. 

The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has released an updated set of coordination principles – Guidelines for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination and Disclosure version 1.1.

Many weeks have passed since organizations around the globe closed their physical doors and transitioned to full-scale remote work. This ‘new normal,’ as many are calling it now, has brought upon countless changes for IT teams.

The city of Austin, Texas has named Shirley Erp as its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

The security team at Safety Detectives, currently led by Anurag Sen, discovered a significant data breach, including personally identifiable information, belonging to Brazilian retailer Natura & Co. 

easyJet has suffered a "sophisticated" cyberattack, which compromised 9 million customer records. 

Extending the perimeter by instituting a corporate security intelligence program enables companies and organizations to stay well ahead of threats and often helps inform strategic and operational decision-making.

UL announced the debut of its Supplier Cyber Trust Level solution, which it says helps organizations minimize supply chain cybersecurity risk by focusing on the trustworthiness of suppliers’ security practices.

 

Senior security leaders within financial services companies are being challenged with a lack of trusted data to make effective security decisions and reduce their risk from cyber, according to Panaseer’s 2020 Financial Services Security Metrics Report.

Louisiana Tech University’s College of Engineering and Science will award six students with a CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) for the 2020-21 academic year.