Security News > 2020
While larger businesses may have whole teams of experts dealing with barrages of cyber-security alerts, small and medium-sized organisations lack the skills and resources to put a comprehensive response together. Tune into today's webcast, brought to you by F-Secure, at 3pm GMT to find out what smaller enterprises can do to protect themselves.
More than one in four security managers attribute attacks against their organization to cyberwarfare or nation-state activity, according to Radware. Companies in North America were more likely to report nation-state attribution, at 36%. "Nation-state intrusions are among the most difficult attacks to thwart because the agencies responsible often have significant resources, knowledge of potential zero-day exploits, and the patience to plan and execute operations," says Anna Convery-Pelletier, Chief Marketing Officer at Radware.
Over the course of 2019, 36% of the incidents that CrowdStrike investigated were most often caused by ransomware, destructive malware or denial of service attacks, revealing that business disruption was often the main attack objective of cybercriminals. Another notable finding in the new CrowdStrike Services Report shows a large increase in dwell time to an average of 95 days in 2019 - up from 85 days in 2018 - meaning that adversaries were able to hide their activities from defenders for longer, and that organizations still lack the technology necessary to harden network defenses, prevent exploitation and mitigate cyber risk.
Information Technology spending by Department of Defense and Intelligence Community agencies will continue to grow as they work to keep pace with the evolution of both the threat landscape and technology development, according to Deltek. IT solutions such as cloud computing, modern data management, big data, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence are in high demand by intelligence agencies with increasingly complex national security missions.
Building on its mission to make security intrinsic to its SD-WAN platform and to offer the most robust real-time visibility and control, Masergy is empowering enterprises to immediately identify and appropriately address unauthorized SaaS applications. According to one study, the average enterprise has more than 888 unauthorized SaaS applications running unbeknownst to IT departments.
To prepare for the transition into Windows 7 End of Life, Cynerio is offering hospitals a complementary risk assessment until February 14, 2020. Connected medical devices are the weakest link in healthcare security and the prevalence of devices running on the Windows 7 operating system puts hospitals at even greater risk of cyber attack.
The latest enhancements delivered in StealthINTERCEPT 7.0 aim to provide organizations advanced capabilities to thwart attacks against AD and provide progressive password policy and complexity improvements that boost security without causing poor user and administrator experiences. Among dozens of significant enhancements, StealthINTERCEPT 7.0 can now detect successful and failed Kerberos pre-authentication events in order to provide administrators and security analysts visibility into nefarious activities like password spraying attempts using tools like Kerbrute early in the attack kill chain.
GTT Communications, a leading global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, announced it has expanded its SD-WAN service offering by adding Fortinet Secure SD-WAN as a technology option. GTT delivers Fortinet Secure SD-WAN as a managed service and supports any last-mile access solution to meet specific client requirements for advanced security, application performance and cost efficiency.
To help companies do this, Citrix Systems announced the launch of Citrix Analytics for Performance, a next-generation service that goes beyond monitoring server-side infrastructure, and enables IT administrators to identify performance issues at the individual user level and proactively address them to deliver a superior experience that engages employees and keeps them happy and productive. "Modern employees expect consumer-like experiences in how they access their enterprise applications. And they have zero tolerance for poor system performance that slows them down," said Steve Wilson, Vice President of Product for Workspace Ecosystem and Analytics, Citrix.
Microsoft today released updates to plug 50 security holes in various flavors of Windows and related software. The patch batch includes a fix for a flaw in Windows 10 and server equivalents of this operating system that prompted an unprecedented public warning from the U.S. National Security Agency.