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Mani Sundaram, executive vice president and general manager of the security tech group at Akamai said, "Enterprises expose full business logic and process data via APIs, which, in a cloud-based economy, are vulnerable to cyberattacks. Neosec's platform and Akamai's application security portfolio will allow customers to gain visibility into all APIs, analyze their behavior and protect against API attacks." One example illustrates how effective a relatively simple API attack can be: the NCC Group, in its 2022 annual Threat Monitor, noted that Australian telecom Optus had the personal information of 10 million customers exposed in a data breach accessed through an exposed API. Roey Eliyahu, co-founder and CEO, Salt Security noted that while APIs are powering digital transformation delivering new business opportunities and competitive advantages, "The cost of API breaches, such as those experienced recently at T-Mobile, Toyota and Optus, put both new services and brand reputation, in addition to business operations, at risk."
A survey of C-level executives released by CloudBees reveals high confidence levels in software supply chain security but a limited understanding of the essential components that make a software supply chain secure. Executives overwhelmingly claim their software supply chains are secure or very secure and 93% say they are prepared to deal with an issue such as ransomware or a cyberattack on their supply chain.
Ivanti unveiled the findings of a Frost & Sullivan study which investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cybersecurity and compliance attitudes and behaviors in Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. More than 40 percent of the respondents in Australia and New Zealand stated that they focused more on cybersecurity to better protect their organization from attacks.
Eighty-one percent of respondents expressed the strong intention to increase MACH elements in their front-office architecture in the next 12-months. Customer demands are key driver toward greater MACH adoption.
C-level executives are 12 times more likely to be the target of social incidents and nine times more likely to be the target of social breaches. This is among the key findings of the latest...
C-level executives – who have access to a company’s most sensitive information, are now the major focus for social engineering attacks, alerts the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report....
Companies are taking the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) much more seriously than HIPAA and PCI: 99 percent are actively involved in the process to become GDPR-compliant, despite the...
A new Dimensional Research study examined corporate executives’ view of cybersecurity risks, as well as measured their confidence and preparedness in the event of a security breach. Study respondents ...