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A rise in consumer digital traffic has corresponded with a rise in fraud attacks, Arkose Labs reveals. "As the world becomes increasingly digital as a result of COVID-19, fraudsters are deploying an alarming volume of attacks, and continually devising new and more sophisticated ways of carrying out their attacks," said Vanita Pandey, VP of Marketing and Strategy at Arkose Labs.
A vulnerability identified recently by researchers at storage giant Western Digital in the Replay Protected Memory Block protocol impacts the products of several other major companies, including Google, Intel and MediaTek. The RPMB feature is designed to protect devices against replay attacks by providing an authenticated and protected area for storing data that ensures each message is unique and cannot be replayed.
Western Digital today announced a suite of new NVMe SSDs for enabling next-generation, data-centric architectures for data centers, industrial IoT, automotive and client applications. The new family includes the Ultrastar DC ZN540 ZNS NVMe SSD for designing a more efficient data center storage tier with competitive TCO; the Western Digital IX SN530 Industrial SSD for the extreme environments of industrial and automotive applications; and the 2TB WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD for speeding up PC performance.
Overall investments in digital resiliency have increased steadily throughout the year as businesses prioritize or accelerate adoption of cloud, collaborative, and digital transformation projects, IDC reveals. "Digital resiliency refers to an organization's ability to rapidly adapt to business disruptions by leveraging digital capabilities to not only restore business operations, but also capitalize on the changed conditions," said Stephen Minton, VP in IDC's Customer Insights & Analysis group.
As a result, far too many organizations have now reached the point of having to either lower their expectations by limiting growth and innovation or increase their risk by disabling security. What's needed is an entirely new approach to both networking and security.
Despite a global pandemic, direct digital transformation investment is still growing at a compound annual growth rate of 15.5% from 2020 to 2023 and is expected to approach $6.8 trillion as companies build on existing strategies and investments, becoming digital-at-scale future enterprises, according to IDC. Digital transformation investment predictions. The economy remains on course to its digital destiny with 65% of global GDP digitalized by 2022 and will drive over $6.8 trillion of direct DX investments from 2020 to 2023.
With Western Digital SMR HDDs serving as the storage foundation for its custom-built, multi-exabyte storage platforms, Dropbox continues its strategic path, taking advantage of the highest storage densities with the lowest TCO without sacrificing data durability and availability for its 600 million+ online customers. "We've been working with Western Digital for many years, and throughout several phases of our storage platform development," said Andrew Fong, vice president of engineering, Dropbox.
A few months ago, the U.S. National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an alert stating, "We are in a state of heightened tensions and additional risk and exposure" across OT and control systems, which are critical to operations and therefore valuable for attackers. While we've quickly pivoted to put in new solutions and processes to address a new, distributed model, what do we do next? How do we take what we've learned this year, capitalize on the change in mindset that it is possible to move fast, and apply it to seize the OT security opportunity in 2021? Here are three areas of focus to help you build on your progress.
IBM announced it will accelerate its hybrid cloud growth strategy to drive digital transformations for its clients. "IBM will focus on its open hybrid cloud platform and AI capabilities. NewCo will have greater agility to design, run and modernize the infrastructure of the world's most important organizations. Both companies will be on an improved growth trajectory with greater ability to partner and capture new opportunities - creating value for clients and shareholders."
Bandos will bring more than 15 years of experience to the position including his five years as VP of Cybersecurity at Digital Guardian. Prior to joining Digital Guardian, Bandos was Director of Cybersecurity for Dupont where he was responsible for overseeing internal controls, incident response and threat intelligence.