Security News > 2021
The amount of data created and replicated experienced unusually high growth in 2020 due to the dramatic increase in the number of people working, learning, and entertaining themselves from home, according to IDC. However, less than 2% of this new data was saved and retained into 2021 - the rest was either ephemeral or temporarily cached and subsequently overwritten with newer data. "The amount of digital data created over the next five years will be greater than twice the amount of data created since the advent of digital storage. The question is: How much of it should be stored?".
A study of 299 internal audit organizations showed that the function faced both declining budgets and a significantly expanded workload in 2020, according to Gartner. "For many heads of audit, it's not clear where the extra capacity is going to come from," said Margaret Moore Porter, managing vice president in the Gartner Audit practice.
GRIMM announced the launch of the company's new Private Vulnerability Disclosure program. This offering allows defenders to get ahead of the attack curve, instead of reacting to unknown threats, by providing previously unknown vulnerabilities.
WALLIX announced a new initiative to support the healthcare sector. Following a year of high demand and accelerated digital transformation, WALLIX now provides enhanced data monitoring and secure remote access through an all-in-one-bundle.
HID Global announced the HID HydrantID Account Certificate Manager solution that eliminates manual, risk-prone processes for tracking, installing and renewing privately-issued as well as trusted Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security certificates. "HydrantID ACM solves today's difficult digital certificate lifecycle management problems by providing one secure and convenient cloud-based platform for organizational teams to easily access private Certificate Authority services managed by HydrantID on their behalf," said Brad Jarvis, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Identity & Access Management Business Area, with HID Global.
Intel is among the growing list of companies being sued for allegedly violating American wiretapping laws by running third-party code to track interactions, such as keystrokes, click events, and cursor movements, on its website. The plaintiff, Holly Londers, claims she visited Intel's website approximately a dozen times in the twelve months to January 2021, and during those visits the chip maker "Utilized tracking, recording, and/or 'session replay' software to contemporaneously intercept [her] use and interaction with the website, including mouse clicks and movements," and information that she input, pages visited and viewed, and dates and times of visits.
IntelliSite released a managed service that enables cities and other communities to deliver smarter and safer environments, to attract residents, businesses and visitors. The service, SCaaS, Smart, Safe and Connected Communities as a Service, impacts public safety, intelligent transportation, healthy environments and the security of the city infrastructure.
Everbridge announced an expansion of its end-to-end and global Critical Event Management SaaS platform, unveiling the most comprehensive integrated suite of digital and physical resiliency solutions for global organizations preparing for 'the new normal' in the post-pandemic world. Digitally transforming how organizations manage, respond to, and mitigate a crisis, as well as protecting revenue while improving cost efficiencies, Critical Event Management represents a 'must have' set of standards and best practices that forward-looking CEOs and boards increasingly incorporate into how they govern operational risk from unplanned events.
Royal Dutch Shell is the latest corporation to be attacked by the Clop ransomware gang. It attempted to downplay the impact noting that "There is no evidence of any impact to Shell's core IT systems," and the server accessed was "Isolated from the rest of Shell's digital infrastructure." But it did acknowledge that the crooks had probably grabbed "Some personal data and... data from Shell companies and some of their stakeholders."
Royal Dutch Shell is the latest corporation to be attacked by the Clop ransomware gang. It attempted to downplay the impact noting that "There is no evidence of any impact to Shell's core IT systems," and the server accessed was "Isolated from the rest of Shell's digital infrastructure." But it did acknowledge that the crooks had probably grabbed "Some personal data and... data from Shell companies and some of their stakeholders."