September is designated as National Insider Threat Awareness Month. Unfortunately, to close out the month, Shopify publicly disclosed that it was the latest victim of a data breach. Events like this are just another reminder of why zero trust must become the new enterprise security standard and why CISO’s must move quickly to implement the practice.

A Gallup poll says that Americans are more likely to say a household member has had their personal, credit card or financial information stolen by computer hackers, than report being victimized by any of eight other forms of criminal activity.

A recent study shows that 95 percent of American bank ATMs still run on Windows XP, but Windows is discontinuing support (including security updates) of the XP operating system as of April 8, 2014.