Security News
Northwave has conducted scientific research into the psychological fallout of a ransomware crisis on both organizations and individuals. The findings reveal the deep marks that a ransomware crisis leaves on all those affected.
Since then the number of unfilled cybersecurity jobs has risen by 350%. For companies that are looking to hire cybersecurity professionals, TechRepublic Premium offers a hiring kit for cybersecurity engineers. In contrast, some companies like Deloitte offer in-house cybersecurity training and skilling.
Cybersecurity has long been a concern for school districts, but these concerns have intensified in the past two years. Successful attacks can take a school district offline for several hours and severely disrupt learning environments for the student body and faculty.
An incomplete identity management strategy has a serious impact on the success of digital transformation, as well as increasing cyber risk exposure. Identity data plays a fundamental role in this, and achieving impactful results is all but impossible without effective identity management.
In this video for Help Net Security, Charles Brook, Threat Intelligence Researcher at Tessian, talks about how cybercriminals have taken advantage of the crisis in Ukraine to create charity donation scams. While there are legitimate ways to donate money and resources, scammers have started using impersonation techniques and sneaky tactics to dupe individuals into sending fake donations via emails, asking for cryptocurrency, or via fake websites.
To overcome these challenges, businesses must implement an agile risk management program that prioritizes third-party risk management. Organization-wide alignment shifts third-party vendor processes from a "Check box" compliance exercise to a consistent, thorough process that underscores the significance of having a risk management program in place.
These were broken down to understand the workforce cyber capabilities of cybersecurity, application security and crisis response teams. Analysis of 35,000 cybersecurity team members inside 400 large organizations reveals it takes over three months on average to develop the knowledge, skills and judgment to defend against breaking threats, except with Log4j.
Russia faces a critical IT storage crisis after Western cloud providers pulled out of the country, leaving Russia with only two more months before they run out of data storage. The Russian government is exploring various solutions to resolve this IT storage problem, ranging from leasing all available domestic data storage to seizing IT resources left behind by businesses that pulled out of the country.
There's one thing worse than having to face down the onslaught of cyber-attacks today's security pros face. That's having to face down an onslaught of cyber-attacks knowing that your security tooling is mismatched, badly integrated, and not showing you where the next biggest threat is coming from.
Criminals have been quick to abuse the current circumstances to increase profits, spreading their tentacles to various areas and exposing vulnerabilities, connected to systems, hospitals or individuals. Europol's Executive Director Catherine De Bolle highlighted: "Worldwide operations, such as the successful takedown of EMOTET botnet, have demonstrated the effectiveness of international cooperation. Ransomware groups have attempted to disrupt critical infrastructures, such as service providers and government institutions, to increase their profits with no concern for the possible damages such interceptions may cause to public safety and security. To this, the collective response of our international law enforcement community is clear: the authorities and the private sector worldwide stand strong and ready to mitigate together any threat that blackmails the stability of our societies."