MarketsandMarkets forecasts the cybersecurity market size to grow from $152.71 billion in 2018 to $248.26 billion by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10.2 percent during the forecast period. The driving factors behind this growth are strict data protection directivesRead More…
As per the latest findings of the McAfee Labs Threats Report: September 2018, McAfee Labs witnessed a surge in cryptomining malware growth since Q4 2017 that continued through the first half of 2018. The report also saw the continued adaptation of the type of malware vulnerabilityRead More…
Fortinet announced the findings of the 2018 independent survey of over 300 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and Chief Security Officers (CSOs) at 2,500+ employee organizations about the Security Implications of Digital Transformation (DX), which provides insights into the state of cybersecurity in organizations around the world. According to the survey,Read More…
As the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, it is imperative for the government and private sector to pay attention to some of the most significant areas of heightened risk in the cyber environment, according to Booz Allen Hamilton. The cyber threat landscape in the Middle East is rapidly expandingRead More…
A total of 274 cyberattacks targeted government, semi-government and private sector entities in the UAE during the first seven months of the year, 39 percent down as compared to the corresponding period in 2017, according to the Telecommunications Regulations Authority (TRA) statistics.Read More…
FireEye announced that it has uncovered a suspected influence operation that appears to originate from Iran aimed at audiences in the Middle East, US, UK and Latin America. This operation is leveraging a network of inauthentic news sites and associated social media accountsRead More…
A new report by Juniper Research found that over 33 billion records will be stolen by cybercriminals in 2023 alone, an increase of 175% over the 12 billion records expected to be compromised in 2018, resulting in cumulative loss of over 146 billion records for the whole period.Read More…
New research from global cybersecurity firm ESET reveals that the recent hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is deceiving three in four IT decision makers (75%) into believing the technologies are the silver bullet to solving their cybersecurity challengesRead More…
