According to the Global Data Leakage Report 2017 prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center and based on publicly available information, the number of compromised data records worldwide, including social security numbers, bank card details, and other critical information, grew more than four-fold year over year, from 3.1 billion to 13.3 billion.Read More…
Sophos in its global survey unearthed all The Dirty Secrets of Network Firewalls, which revealed that IT managers cannot identify 45 percent of their organization’s network traffic. In fact, nearly one-in-four cannot identify 70 percent of their network traffic. The lack of visibility creates significant security challenges for today’s businesses and impactsRead More…
According to the latest Comodo Cybersecurity Threat Research Labs’ “Global Malware Report Q1 2018.” revealed that the first quarter for 2018 (for Jan-March 2018) threat analysis shows a very different picture from 2017, as cryptominers surged to the top of detected malware incidents, displacing ransomware — which declined significantly in volumeRead More…
Sophos, a global leader in network and endpoint security, today announced the findings of its global survey, The Dirty Secrets of Network Firewalls, which revealed that IT managers cannot identify 45 percent of their organization’s network traffic.Read More…
Centrify, a leading provider of Zero Trust Security through the power of Next-Gen Access, announced results of a new research study with Dow Jones Customer Intelligence, “CEO Disconnect is Weakening Cybersecurity,” which reveals that a misalignment between CEOs and Technical Officers is weakening enterprise cybersecurity postures.Read More…
SANS has released the results of its annual SANS 2018 Cyber Threat Intelligence Survey that sheds light on the evolution of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) in cyber security and shows that CTI is maturing as a discipline.Read More…
In 2017, Saudi Arabia’s education sector was most affected by malware, followed by government, and telecommunications. Other sectors also affected were healthcare, manufacturing, and oil & gas. Furthermore, of the 1.7 billion known ransomware threats globally in 2017, the Kingdom accounted for 0.55%.Read More…
FireEye,today announced the release of its annual M-Trends report which found that attackers were present in EMEA organisations’ networks a median of 175 days before being detected in 2017. This is an increase of almost 40 percent from the same measurement the year before which stood at 106 days. TheRead More…
