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A recent Verizon report highlighted social engineering as a top target for bad actors, and the threat is only expected to grow in the year ahead. COVID-19 was in the news nonstop this past year, and threat actors are expected to continue to take advantage of it in 2021. Healthcare providers are doing everything they can to deploy new systems and support more patients online, while bad actors seek out high-value, vulnerable targets.

When we talk about insider threats, in reality, we're usually talking about people who have made a mistake that led to a breach of company information. A disgruntled employee chooses to leak data and cause the company harm.

Anomali has added new features and capabilities across its product suite that further automate and speed essential tasks performed by threat intelligence and security operations analysts. To provide capabilities that work in real-world investigation scenarios, Anomali Threat Research analysts applied their expertise to aid in the design and development of pre-customized, themed threat intelligence dashboards.

Trend Micro announced the world's first cloud-native, fully serverless file storage security tool for organizations building applications in the cloud. Trend Micro Cloud One - File Storage Security is designed to mitigate threats across the cloud environment and support strict compliance requirements.

Find out two steps your business can take now to prepare employees, as well as infrastructure, for possible quantum computing-related cybersecurity risks. In his HelpNetSecurity article Quantum computers: How to prepare for this great threat to information security published on Nov. 6, 2020, Kaafarani begins by stating that quantum computers can introduce a huge security challenge.

A WatchGuard report reveals how COVID-19 has impacted the security threat landscape, with evidence that attackers continue to target corporate networks despite the shift to remote work, and a rise in pandemic-related malicious domains and phishing campaigns. "As the impact of COVID-19 continues to unfold, our threat intelligence provides key insight into how attackers are adjusting their tactics," said Corey Nachreiner, CTO at WatchGuard.

Physical threats are rising and increasingly unmanageable, putting unprecedented financial, reputational and liability pressures on business leadership and security teams, according to a study by the Ontic Center for Protective Intelligence. As physical security operations budgets are expected to increase in 2021, driven and accelerated by COVID-19, the study showcases the collective perspectives of chief security officers, chief legal officers, chief compliance officers and physical security decision-makers - on their physical security operations, what keeps them up at night, challenges and opportunities they foresee in 2021, and the pressing need for physical security modernization through technology.

Today, banks must contend with near-constant cyber attacks from organized criminal gangs, as well as highly skilled and well-resourced threat actors working on behalf of nation-states. The cyber threats facing banks are exacerbated by a large and complex infrastructure that presents threat actors with an extensive attack surface, allowing them to strike network infrastructure and systems like SWIFT, employees, customers, and physical assets like ATMs. The extent of these threats demands a proactive and persistent security program.

Administrators scrambled to keep the hospital operational - cancelling non-urgent appointments, reverting to pen-and-paper record keeping and rerouting some critical care patients to nearby hospitals. The Vermont hospital had fallen prey to a cyberattack, becoming one of the most recent and visible examples of a wave of digital assaults taking U.S. health care providers hostage as COVID-19 cases surge nationwide.

China poses the greatest threat to America and the rest of the free world since World War II, outgoing National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe said Thursday as the Trump administration ramps up anti-Chinese rhetoric to pressure President-elect Joe Biden to be tough on Beijing. "It offered nothing new but repeated the lies and rumors aimed at smearing China and playing up the China threat by any means," Hua said at a daily briefing on Friday.