Sophos announced the findings of its global survey, “The State of Ransomware 2021,” which reveals that the average total cost of recovery from a ransomware attack has more than doubled in a year, increasing from $761,106 in 2020 to $1.85 million in 2021. The average ransom paid is $170,404. TheRead More…
Mimecast Limited published its “The State of Email Security” report. The report shows enterprises faced unprecedented cybersecurity risk in 2020 from increasing attack volume, the pandemic-driven digital transformation of work, and generally deficient cyber preparedness and training. The fifth annual “The State of Email Security,” report is based on aRead More…
Barracuda today released key findings from a report titled The state of Office 365 backup. Commissioned by Barracuda, the research surveyed global IT decision-makers to capture their opinions and perspectives about Office 365, data security, backup and recovery, SaaS solutions, and a variety of related topics.Read More…
Emad Fahmy, Systems Engineering Manager, Middle East, NETSCOUT, speaks about the worrisome potential security challenges around the therapeutics and vaccines developed to combat COVID.Read More…
Cisco has today published its DNS Security Report, which analyzes malicious DNS activity and threats that occurred between January and December of last year. The report examines data from Cisco Umbrella, the company’s cloud-based network security platform, finding that cryptomining malware affected a vast majority of customers in 2020, generatingRead More…
Ray Kafity, Vice President – Middle East Turkey and Africa (META) at Attivo Networks, highlights the key challenges 2021 holds for cybersecurity professionals.Read More…
The pandemic’s work-from-home reality resulted in an unprecedented change for organizations as they fought to defend exponentially greater attack surfaces from cybercriminals armed with powerful cloud-based tools, cloud storage and endless targets. As working environments evolved, so did the methods of threat actors and other motivated perpetrators, as detailedRead More…
Analysis by Tenable’s Security Response Team (SRT) has revealed 237 breaches in the healthcare sector in the calendar year 2020, leading to 102,907,137 healthcare records were exposed in 2020, with 2,864,677 disclosed in 56 breaches so far this year (January and February).Read More…
