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The study examining attitudes towards cybersecurity teams within organizations has uncovered that despite minor issues around communication and processes, there are high levels of trust and appreciation amongst employees. It indicates how cybersecurity teams and professionals are increasingly viewed as a vital strategic function enabling both individuals and business success.
Despite 57% of interviewed organizations reporting significant security incidents, over 70% of organizations reported better performance on cybersecurity key performance indicators, such as mean time to detect, investigate, respond, and remediate in 2023 as compared to 2022, and 90% believe they have good or excellent ability to detect cyberthreats. "While we aren't surprised by the contradictions in the data, our study in partnership with IDC further opened our eyes to the fact that most security operations teams still do not have the visibility needed for overall security operations success. Despite the varied TDIR investments they have in place, they are struggling to thoroughly conduct comprehensive analysis and response activities," said Steve Moore, Exabeam Chief Security Strategist.
New phishing attacks abuse Microsoft Teams group chat requests to push malicious attachments that install DarkGate malware payloads on victims' systems. The attackers used what looks like a compromised Teams user to send over 1,000 malicious Teams group chat invites, according to AT&T Cybersecurity research.
Microsoft is investigating a second outage affecting Microsoft Teams users across North and South America in the last three days. "We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Microsoft Teams or features within North America, Canada, and Brazil," Microsoft said via the company's official Microsoft 365 status account on X. Teams users affected by these ongoing issues can find more information in an incident report tagged as TM710900 in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing and widespread outage impacting the users of its Teams communication platform and causing connectivity issues, login problems, and message delays."We've identified a networking issue impacting a portion of the Teams service and we're performing a failover to remediate impact. Additional information can be found under TM710344 in the admin center," tweeted the official Microsoft account for updates on Microsoft365 service incidents.
The majority of Ops professionals feel that they are prohibited from accessing the data they need to make quick business decisions, which can lead to bad practices and impact the organization's overall data-driven decision-making capabilities. "IT is challenged to keep up with increasing demand for timely data access, while also ensuring the security and governance of that data," said Amit Sharma, CData CEO. "Flexible, secure data connectivity solutions ease the burden on IT and provide employees with the data they need to make impactful decisions for their business."
42% of businesses report employees with BYOD devices in business settings that use tools like WhatsApp have led to new security incidents, according to SafeGuard Cyber. Messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and Teams face constant threats, emphasizing the need for robust protection.
The research found that AppSec chaos reigns, with 78% of CISOs responding that today's AppSec attack surfaces are unmanageable and 90% of responders confirmed relationships between their security and development teams need to improve. 85% of CISOs acknowledge dev teams suffer from vulnerability noise and alert fatigue, which strains the relationship between security and dev teams.
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Nine out of 10 security teams are automating at least some of their work, and 93% of respondents believe that more automation would improve their work-life balance. According to the research, overall job satisfaction in the SOC remains high - security teams love the work they do.