Security News > 2020 > June
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Three years ago, the WannaCry ransomware worm wreaked havoc on hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide, ranging from hospitals that had to pause urgent operations to multinational delivery services that were forced to halt the transportation of goods. Three years later, the memories are still fresh in our minds - but have organizations applied any of the lessons learned to their overall security strategy? Let's take a look.
70 percent of security professionals believe their local governments cannot adequately safeguard the election infrastructure against domestic and international cyber attacks. "Many of the cyber attacks targeting elections come from machines, which can automatically spread information and direct attacks on the systems that count votes," said Kevin Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat intelligence at Venafi.
To help create a better experience for these users, Alpha Serve has developed WebAuthn add-ons to bring passwordless authentication to various Atlassian products. WebAuthn is part of the FIDO2 framework - various technologies that permit passwordless authentication among web browsers, servers, and authenticators.
The complexity and size of DDoS attacks in 2019 has increased significantly compared to 2018. A report published by NaWas by NBIP concludes that despite the number of attacks has decreased slightly over 2019, their complexity and size has increased significantly.
They came from organizations of all sizes and across a broad range of sectors, in EMEA, APAC and the US. Secure SD-WAN fully integrated into public cloud is the solution of choice 23% of respondents have already deployed SD-WAN, with another 51% either in the process of deploying or expecting to deploy within the next 12 months. SD-WAN is being used by more than half of those who have added security to their public cloud.
Delivering a better customer experience was identified as the leading driver for AI adoption by more than half the large companies surveyed. Whether it is an improved customer experience or better employee experience, there is a direct correlation between AI adoption and superior business outcomes.
Safe Systems, a national provider of fully-compliant IT and security services for community banks and credit unions, announced the availability of NetInsight, a cyber risk reporting tool designed to help community banks and credit unions fill gaps in reporting to meet examiner expectations and provide actionable data to internal stakeholders. Many community financial institutions struggle to efficiently identify threats and assess risks due to limited visibility into their networks and lack of quality cyber risk reports.
EGlobalTech, A Tetra Tech Company, announced the launch of "Jmpr," a new software product which considerably simplifies Amazon Web Services user and permission management. AWS developers who have multiple accounts with different permissions, requiring repeated separate logins per day to complete required tasks.
To simplify security deployment, management and visibility for organizations with growing branch footprints, SonicWall unveils new secure SD-Branch capabilities, and a complete line of new multi-gigabit switches, to cost-effectively scale and manage remote or branch locations. To simplify the management needs associated with distributed locations, campuses and branch offices, new SonicWall secure SD-Branch capabilities deliver single-pane-of-glass management across LAN, WAN and security controls.