Security News > 2020
The survey reported a 347% increase in account takeover and 391% rise in shipping fraud attempts globally against its online retail customers from 2018 to 2019. "With so many reported data breaches, it's not just about if your account will be hijacked, it's about when," said Melissa Gaddis, senior director of customer success for TransUnion Fraud & Identity Solutions.
Less than 50 percent of organizations can patch vulnerable systems swiftly enough to protect against critical threats and zero-day attacks, and 81 percent have suffered at least one data breach in the last two years, according to Automox. The research surveyed 560 IT operations and security professionals at enterprises with between 500 and 25,000 employees, across more than 15 industries to benchmark the state of endpoint patching and hardening.
"Organizations need to implement advanced data classification, data anonymization, data masking, encryption, security, and access controls in order to set themselves up for successful compliance. ESG believes that many organizations are only ready on the surface - with marketing opt-in/out processes, for example." Protecting customer data privacy a strategic imperative for businesses.
In this webinar, Mark Sangster discusses how the COVID-19 crisis is affecting businesses and individuals and the need to stay vigilant. Emerging threats from bad actors who are taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis are inevitable.
Sysdig, the secure DevOps leader, announced cloud monitoring at scale with full Prometheus compatibility. Sysdig is the only enterprise monitoring solution to be fully compatible with Prometheus.
Keyavi Data, a data security technology company that embeds protection directly into the data, announced the public launch of the company and its leadership team. Keyavi's data intelligence technology, which is currently open to a limited number of early access customers, enables data owners to maintain full control of their data for as long as they want.
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, highlighted that more organizations are using Red Hat OpenShift as the foundation for building artificial intelligence and machine-learning data science workflows and AI-powered intelligent applications. Customer and ecosystem interest in AI/ML. The customer momentum seen by Red Hat validates the AI/ML findings from the recent 2020 Red Hat Global Customer Tech Outlook report.
InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability, and speed problems, announced the availability of the latest version of the InterSystems IRIS data platform. "This latest release of InterSystems IRIS data platform expands its usefulness for developing high performance, machine learning-enabled applications that span data and application silos," said Scott Gnau, head of data platforms for InterSystems.
Stellar Cyber has received $7.1 million in additional funding in an expansion of its Series A round, bringing the total to $21.8 million. Extending its Series A round has been a more efficient way of absorbing new capital than opening up a subsequent funding round, and given the ongoing investor interest in Stellar Cyber, this extension allows new investors to get on board more quickly and expand market opportunities more quickly.
Delta Risk, a leading provider of SOC-as-a-Service and security services, announced that it has expanded its partnership with VMware Carbon Black, a leader in cloud-delivered, next-generation endpoint security. The partnership includes fully integrated managed detection, response, threat hunting, and monitoring capabilities via Delta Risk's ActiveEye security platform for customers using VMware Carbon Black solutions, providing improved endpoint visibility for organizations of all sizes.