Fady Younes, Cybersecurity Director, Middle East and Africa, Cisco, on why organisations need to be proactive in developing comprehensive security strategies and take the evolving threat landscape serious. 2020 was a turbulent year as the world grappled to cope with the impact of COVID-19 – both on general sense of wellbeing and the critical infrastructures […]

The number of annual credential spill incidents nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020, according to F5’s latest ‘Credential Stuffing Report’. Released recently, the most comprehensive research initiative of its kind reported a 46% downturn in the volume of spilled credentials during the same period. The average spill size also declined, falling from 63 million records […]

BT Security has published the results of a global survey which canvassed the opinions of over 7000 business leaders, employees and consumers from across the world. The research, conducted in partnership with Davies Hickman Partners, found that in a rapidly changing business environment, the role of the chief information and security officer (CISO) has hugely […]

€272.5 million (roughly US$332.4 million / £245.3 million) of fines have been imposed for a wide-range of infringements of Europe’s tough data protection laws, according to international law firm, DLA Piper. The figure is taken from the law firm’s latest annual General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) fines and data breach report of the 27 European […]

Synopsys has released the report, DevSecOps Practices and Open Source Management in 2020. Produced by the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Centre (CyRC), the report highlights the findings from a survey of 1,500 IT professionals working in cybersecurity, software development, software engineering and web development. The report explores the strategies that organisations around the world are using to address open […]

Industry data indicates a positive trend in salary and job satisfaction over the past three years, with mild improvements in gender diversity. Samantha Humphries, Senior Security Strategist at Exabeam, tells us why she thinks automation will only serve to benefit the cybersecurity industry, and how she predicts the industry’s future will evolve in 2021. Despite […]

LastPass by LogMeIn has released findings of a new report commissioned to better understand the current state of passwords in organizations today, and how these trends are driving passwordless authentication models moving forward. The report, From Passwords to Passwordless, was conducted in partnership with Vanson Bourne and highlights the critical need to address password problems as remote work becomes the new normal.   The […]

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, […]