Recently a comprehensive survey was conducted by Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), USA on the various aspects of cybersecurity in the healthcare sector and the director of privacy and security, HIMSS North America, Lee Kim shares the report of the survey In our 2018 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey, respondents included healthcareRead More…
According to Kaspersky Lab’s study, cybersecurity remains largely untapped by women, accounting for only 11% of the total workforce in the industry. The report outlines some interesting facts on why cybersecurity continues to be a difficult career for women to break into. Women in cybersecurity face a harsh reality: oftenRead More…
SonicWall releases the report for its research and intelligence derived out from the 2018 Cyber Threat Report. The company recorded 9.32 billion malware attacks in 2017 and saw more than 12,500 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) reported for the year. “The cyber arms race affects every government, business, organizationRead More…
In 2017 Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies detected over 246 million user attempts to visit different kinds of phishing pages. Of those, over 53 percent were attempting to visit a financial-related website – 6 percentage points higher compared to data from 2016. This is the first time since recording phishing attemptsRead More…
Two in three large enterprises in the Arab Gulf region intend devoting at least 5% of annual revenue to digitisation of operations, according to a Microsoft research conducted on the current state of digital transformation and corresponding readiness amongst organisations. The findings reveal that organisations across the region were moreRead More…
The State of the Internet/Security Report released by Akamai Technologies that analyzed more than 7.3 trillion bot requests per month, found a sharp increase in the threat of credential abuse, with more than 40 percent of login attempts being malicious.Read More…
Written by Kalle Bjorn, Director – Systems Engineering, FortinetRead More…
According to latest Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report (ACR), malware sophistication is increasing as adversaries begin to weaponize cloud services and evade detection through encryption, used as a tool to conceal command-and-control activity. As per the report, security professionals said to reduce adversaries’ time to operate they will increasingly leverageRead More…
