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The problems imposed by repurposing unique innovations can also be seen in the world of network technology. As network speeds increased from 10Mb to 100Mb, it was discovered that this model could not scale.
More than two thirds of SAP users believe their organizations put insufficient focus on IT security during previous SAP implementations, while 53.4% indicated that it is 'very common' for SAP security flaws to be uncovered during the audit process. 74.0% expect IT security to take greater priority in future SAP deployments, with 89.6% agreeing that security specialists should be brought on board to support their SAP S/4 HANA transformation programs.
The report revealed increased spikes in attacks against government and law sectors as the United States launched its Democratic primaries, and early signs of change in industry traffic and attack trends due to COVID-19. During the month of February, Imperva began monitoring how and if the cross-border spread of COVID-19 started to affect traffic and attack trends across multiple industries and countries.
CI Security, a Managed Detection and Response services provider specializing in defending the networks of organizations and critical infrastructure, announced the addition of a Work From Home Security Policy Assessment to the company's managed services offering. The Work From Home Security Policy Assessment provides a comprehensive view of the risks faced by an organization and its remote workforce, the capabilities of the organization to implement appropriate and effective security controls, including how to monitor an expanded, and in many cases unmanaged, set of endpoints.
The cloud-delivered RiskSense solution now combines RBVM with RiskSense SRS to provide 360 degree visibility that eliminates security gaps and enables security teams to measure, prioritize, and control both inside-out and outside-in risks from one integrated console. The new RiskSense SRS capabilities, which are fully integrated with the RiskSense platform, require nothing more than a second-level domain name to start performing a continuous, independent, quantitative discovery and analysis of all internet-accessible assets.
A regular and reliable backup process will protect you from unexpected data loss of any sort, including cases - as many people will have experienced when coronavirus lockdowns started and they couldn't get back into the office - where your data isn't lost, but you can't get at it anyway. If ransomware strikes your entire network, or a power surge takes out your laptop where you keep your backup drive plugged in all the time, then you no longer have a backup.
Since February, spam exploiting the novel coronavirus has jumped by 4,300% and 14,000% in the past 14 days, according to IBM X-Force, IBM's threat intelligence group. A new report from IBM X-Force reveals just how much COVID-19 spam has been generated and how it's been manifesting itself.
Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, announced the appointment of Candid Wüest as Vice President of Cyber Protection Research at Acronis. Wüest will lead accelerated research into the latest trends in the threat landscape and new protection methods designed to continuously enhance the world's most innovative cyber protection solutions.
World Backup Day is March 31, and while cyberattacks are a potential threat to their data, many SMBs say they don't have a data backup or disaster recovery process, according to data protection company Infrascale. Among them, 49% said that cyberattacks are their biggest concern when it comes to protecting data, while 58% pointed to security vulnerabilities as their biggest data storage challenge.
On the former front, Google researchers saw a growing trend emerge towards impersonating news outlets and journalists, especially when it comes to attackers from Iran and North Korea. Attackers impersonate a journalist to seed false stories with other reporters to spread disinformation," explained Toni Gidwani, security engineering manager at the company's Threat Analysis Group, writing in an overview of nation-state trends, published last week.