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Passwords remain the dominant method of authentication and top cause of data breaches, according to MobileIron. "The digital workplace is driving transformation within organizations of all sizes as employees are increasingly accessing business apps and data from locations outside of their offices and homes," said Steve Brasen, research director of endpoint and identity management at EMA. "At the same time, mobile threats are increasing. More than 60 percent of respondents indicated their organization had experienced a security breach in just the last year. Organizations need to implement context-aware security and passwordless authentication to dynamically adapt to modern threats while removing the friction that is inhibiting end user productivity."

More than 50 percent of security and IT leaders agree that they are very concerned about the security of corporate endpoints given the prevalence of sophisticated attack vectors like ransomware, disruptionware, phishing and more, according to a survey from RSA Conference 2020 by Absolute. According to recent industry reports, 2019 saw a record number of more than 5,000 breaches as well "An unprecedented and unrelenting barrage of ransomware attacks" in the U.S. that impacted at least 966 businesses, government agencies, educational establishments and healthcare providers at a potential cost of more than $7.5 billion.

Machine learning creates a profile of expected email contacts and turns on a stop sign when new people pop up.

It's critical to understand the existing gaps and bottlenecks within organizations that make the infrastructure vulnerable to attacks and make detection difficult. Effective ways to align your resources to enhance your incidence response effort;.

78% think employees have put data at risk accidentally in the past 12 months and 75% think employees have put data at risk intentionally. "While they acknowledge the sustained risk of insider data breaches, bizarrely IT leaders have not adopted new strategies or technologies to mitigate the risk. Effectively, they are adopting a risk posture in which at least one-third of employees putting data at risk is deemed acceptable."

Number of records exposed in healthcare breaches doubles. According to the findings, the total number of records breached more than doubled from 2018 to 2019.

The breaches, which had been unreported, only came to light in January when Conservative MP Dean Allison demanded that the country's federal government produce a report for the Canadian House of Commons, according to the CBC. The 800-page report contained details about agency breaches in 2018 and 2019. In the report, the government admitted that agencies responsible for national defense, healthcare, tax revenue, postal service and immigration all sustained data breaches or accidentally exposed citizen data.

One is a big new category that we saw emerging in 2019 was not a true data breach per se, but what we're calling a data exposure, or you may also have heard the term data lake, and that's where some businesses just forgot to put a password on their cloud environments. If you can't keep up with all those passwords, use a password manager.

The Identity Theft Recource Center warns that businesses of all sizes should be vigilant about data security.

More than 15.1 billion records were exposed in 2019 as part of the data breaches that were publicly reported, Risk Based Security reveals. There were "Three breaches that compromised 1 billion records or more exposed transaction logs," but the number of impacted people is much lower than the 7.6 billion exposed records.