A new report by the World Economic Forum finds that freeing ourselves of passwords will actually make us safer and businesses more efficient.

Put 2019 in the record books — for cybercrime, that is. 

While there is still time left in 2019, according to the recent Data Breach QuickView Report, there were 5,183 breaches reported just in the first nine months of 2019 exposing 7.9 billion records.

Fraud increased 30 percent overall in Q3 2019 and bot-driven account registration fraud is up 70 percent as cybercriminals test stolen credentials in advance of the holiday retail season.

The cost of data breaches will rise from $3 trillion each year to more than $5 trillion in 2024, an average annual growth of 11%, says a new report from Juniper Research.

Enterprises are struggling to find the right talent to safeguard their networks; therefore, they must change their mindsets and begin recruiting talent from non-traditional backgrounds to ensure they have the "right" person on their SOC team.

Cybercriminals exposed 2.8 billion consumer data records in 2018, costing more than $654 billion to U.S. organizations.