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Absolute Software announced key findings from its report which shines a light on key trends affecting enterprise data and device security, and underscores the dangers of compromised security controls in expanding an already wide attack surface for today's enterprises. With increasing endpoint complexities comes increased risk.
According to the study, which polled 2,303 IT security and SOC decision makers across companies of all sizes and verticals, 70% of respondents say their home lives are being emotionally impacted by their work managing IT threat alerts. These finding are corroborated by a recent Forrester study, which found that "Security teams are heavily understaffed when it comes to incident response, even as they face more attacks. Security operations centers need a more-effective method of detection and response; thus, XDR takes a dramatically different approach to other tools on the market today."
An overwhelming 90% of security leaders are concerned about group legal settlements following a serious data breach, compared to 85% who are worried about regulatory fines, Egress reveals. Security leaders concerned about data breach legal settlements 90% of security leaders are concerned about class action by data subjects in the event of a serious data breach, whereas 85% are concerned about regulatory fines.
Last year, the man Down Under announced plans to make key portions of the system open source for others to pick up, use, and improve. Now the Pwned Passwords code base is available from GitHub under a BSD three-clause license.
The U.S. National Security Agency used a partnership with Denmark's foreign and military intelligence service to eavesdrop on top politicians and high-ranking officials in Germany, Sweden, Norway, and France by tapping into Danish underwater internet cables between 2012 and 2014. Details of the covert wiretapping were broken by Copenhagen-based public broadcaster DR over the weekend based on interviews with nine unnamed sources, all of whom are said to have access to classified information held by the Danish Defence Intelligence Service.