Security News > 2020 > December
Each year seems to come with more cyber threats, "Bad actors," ransomware and data breaches. Cyber resilience has begun to enter the mainstream, as the focal point turns from just securing the borders to making sure business operations can bounce back after an attack, through cyber resilience practices.
Guardsquare announced the release of a report which reassesses the levels of security protections and privacy risks of COVID-19 contact tracing apps. Government-sponsored COVID-19 contact tracing Android mobile apps have been analyzed in June 2020, uncovering that the vast majority lacked even basic security protections.
A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit - but not if the transistor "Type" is undetectable. How chip manufacturers choose to make this transistor design compatible with their processes would determine the availability of this level of security.
77% of IT decision makers don't completely trust the data within their organization for timely and accurate decision making, according to SnapLogic. Worryingly, those who have little or no trust in their organization's data report that 54% of strategic decisions continue to use that same data, risking flawed decisions and perhaps hindering, rather than helping, the business achieve their goals.
Organizations need to implement strong data governance strategies to ensure their data is accurate, reliable and secure, while continuing to provide their employees with the resources they need to realize the full benefits of it. Data security is an important part of data access policies, and Xplenty helps you customize workflow access.
Infosys announced the launch of the Infosys Modernization Suite, part of Infosys Cobalt, to help organizations accelerate their end to end modernization needs. Infosys Modernization Suite helps enterprises modernize legacy while delivering superior customer experiences, faster time to market, infinite elasticity, and cost reduction, to help enterprises become resilient, responsive, and relevant.
The Association of Corporate Counsel announced the formal launch of its new Data Steward Program - the legal industry's first and most comprehensive data security evaluation and accreditation program specifically designed for law firms and their corporate law department clients. "ACC heard from our members that there was no standard approach to assess and compare law firms' data security standards," said Veta T. Richardson, ACC president and CEO. "In the 2020 ACC CLO Survey, CLOs ranked data privacy and security among the top three most important issues facing their overall business. These are also key concerns of the law firms they work with, who handle and store significant amounts of sensitive client information."
Xsight Labs announced a bold vision to rearchitect the foundation of cloud infrastructure by delivering a broad portfolio of products that enable end-to-end connectivity. Xsight Labs is developing a portfolio of products that will drive the seamless adoption of these innovative technologies.
ThreatConnect released ThreatConnect Risk Quantifier 5.0, continuing its innovation in the emerging field of cyber risk quantification. ThreatConnect Risk Quantifier enables the identification of the risks that matter most to the organization by quantifying them based on potential financial and operational impact, unifying security and the business to a common goal.
By natively supporting popular cloud data platforms, Immuta now provides a single, powerful solution for data teams to automate cloud data access control, discovery and classification, and privacy protection-significantly improving productivity, unlocking more data for more data consumers, and minimizing the risk of data leaks or breaches. Immuta also unveiled new research that suggests the majority of data-driven organizations will adopt multiple cloud data platforms and utilize sensitive data for analytics, creating a large market need for centralized cloud data access governance.