Despite 88% of cybersecurity professionals believing automation will make their jobs easier, younger staffers are more concerned that the technology will replace their roles than their veteran counterparts, according to new research by Exabeam, the Smarter SIEM company. The finding is part of the 2020 Cybersecurity Professionals Salary, Skills and Stress Survey, an annual survey […]
Analysis of 92 billion rejected emails finds certain verticals have been repeatedly targeted during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Mimecast Limited, a leading email security and cyber-resilience company, has launched the Threat Intelligence Report: Black Hat U.S.A. Edition 2020. The report provides technical analysis of United States targeted attacks that attempted to infiltrate the security environment of […]
McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, has released its McAfee COVID-19 Threat Report: July 2020, examining cybercriminal activity related to COVID-19 and the evolution of cyberthreats in Q1 2020. McAfee Labs saw an average of 375 new threats per minute and a surge of cybercriminals exploiting the pandemic through COVID-19 themed malicious apps, phishing campaigns, malware and more. […]
Orange Cyberdefense, Europe’s largest managed security services provider, has announced the findings of its inaugural Security Navigator, which reveals a huge 23% decline in the number of recorded malware incidents in 2019, a year which also saw an increase in the total number of security events. Security Navigator 2020 combines the unique perspective of Orange, […]
The media industry suffered 17 billion credential stuffing attacks between January 2018 and December 2019 according to a new report from Akamai, the intelligent Edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences. The Akamai 2020 State of the Internet / Credential Stuffing in the Media Industry report found that 20% of the 88 billion total credential stuffing attacks […]
The fourth annual report from Mimecast finds greatest new concern is email and web spoofing. Mimecast, a leading email and data security company, has unveiled its fourth-annual State of Email Security 2020 report. This report summarises details from 1,025 global IT decision makers on the current state of cybersecurity. Providing year-over-year comparisons, along with […]
May 7 marks World Password Day – a day designed to encourage individuals and organisations across the world to re-evaluate their password security. Often described as the ‘keys to the kingdom’, if a password is able to get into the wrong hands, it can cause chaos. And with more and more of our activities – […]
A new survey sponsored in part by Nozomi Networks has found that as critical infrastructure organisations converge their IT, OT, IoT and physical systems to improve overall performance, employees are the biggest threat to cyber and physical security. The independent report, Weathering the Perfect Storm: Securing the Cyber-Physical Systems of Critical Infrastructure, queried over 400 C-level […]
Findings cast a spotlight on the growing pressures faced by information security workers and the need for more to be done to protect their mental health. More than 40% of respondents in a Twitter poll run by Infosecurity Europe, Europe’s number one information security event, singled out human skill and expertise as the most important […]
FireEye, the intelligence-led security company, has released the FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report in the GCC. The report shares statistics and insights gleaned from FireEye Mandiant investigations around the globe in 2019. Key findings include: Organisations are detecting and containing attacks faster In the 2020 M-Trends report, the global median dwell time, defined as the […]
