IT security threats are taking more time to remedy than ever

Threats to the security of IT infrastructure have never taken longer to eliminate, a new report from LogMeIn claims. Polling 400 IT and IT security professionals from companies with up to 3,000 employees, the firm found that more than half (54 percent) are spending increasingly more time managing IT security threats and developing new security protocols. Last year, roughly a …

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MFA security: Not the perfect panacea everyone thinks it is

Since its arrival decades ago, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has promised to make our online lives more secure than simple login name and password authentication solutions. The sheer number of ways to compromise password authentication solutions is leading more organizations into using or considering MFA for at least some of their logins. In fact, almost 60 percent of organizations have already …

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Microsoft says new experimental architecture could cut number of necessary security patches

For quite some time now, Rust has been touted as a potential replacement for C++ when it comes to writing some Windows components. Some consider C++ outdated and Microsoft itself even acknowledges that switching to Rust could eliminate the need for constant security patches. This is mostly because the majority of vulnerabilities revolve around memory-safety – an issue allegedly inherent …

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Security teams are struggling to curb employees’ risky work behaviors online

Warnings from security experts about the myriad of threats lurking online have fallen on deaf ears, as the majority of employees are still actively engaged in unsafe and unproductive web activity when they should be working. This is according to a new report from Censornet, based on a poll of 300 cybersecurity pros, which states that two thirds (67 percent) …

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The long tail effect of the pandemic on cyber security

Having employees working from home isn’t news – many organizations have enjoyed this practice for over twenty or more years. However, since the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic we know that many organizations have shifted entire workforces to remote working and many others have made equally interesting adjustments. I am sure that many reading this article still have waking nightmares, …

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GoldenSpy: An ongoing game of cat and mouse between cyber adversaries and the security community

In June, Trustwave reported the discovery of a dangerous new malware family dubbed GoldenSpy, hidden within tax payment software mandated by China Tax Bureau (CTB) for all businesses operating in the country.  This took an unexpected turn soon after Trustwave posted its findings and advice on how to defeat the unusually persistent malware. It quickly became apparent that the threat …

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Reducing the hidden costs and mitigating security risks of third-party contractors

Organizations are constantly on the lookout for new ways to stay one step ahead of the competition by increasing their speed of innovation and improving overall customer satisfaction.  Often that means they will enlist third parties to both augment their services and capabilities in an effort to gain a competitive advantage and improve profitability as well as gain skill sets. …

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British businesses increasingly prioritise data privacy and security

More and more British businesses have prioritised data privacy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, new research has found. A study by security firm Netwrix discovered that the majority of the UK organisations are concerned about security-related issues and plan to enforce cybersecurity awareness among employees. The pandemic appears to have helped engineer a major change in the IT …

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IT professionals disagree over data security strategy

There is a “major” disparity between C-suite executives and their IT teams when it comes to data security strategy, claims a new report from Exonar. Based on a poll of 500 UK IT professionals, the report states that most C-suite executives believe their businesses are able to identify dark data (unstructured data that takes up storage space but goes unused). …

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Lockdown increased risks as security teams shrank

The Covid-19 health crisis has exacerbated the cybersecurity problems businesses in the UK and the US were already facing. According to a new report from Exabeam, based on a poll of more than 1,000 IT security professionals, organizations were forced to cut IT security staff to survive the pandemic. Fewer workers in the IT security sector, however, meant greater risk …

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