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The research revealed that tech leaders tend to overestimate the positive experience of remote workers - with IT estimating the quality of the remote working experience to be 21% higher than actual remote workers rated it. The survey also revealed that the new remote work dynamic may be straining the IT-employee relationship, with remote workers not fully trusting IT to provide the help they need.
McAfee announced the launch of MVISION Marketplace, MVISION API and MVISION Developer Portal, part of the MVISION platform that will allow customers to quickly and easily integrate McAfee and trusted Security Innovation Alliance partner applications as well as privately developed applications within their current security environment. The newly launched open API framework enables organizations to respond faster to threats while reducing total cost of operations by automating MVISION Platform capabilities and integrating with their IT and security operations.
A report published on Thursday by industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos reveals that the manufacturing sector has been attacked by five threat groups that have been known to target industrial environments. According to Dragos, the manufacturing sector faces increasing risk of cyberattacks, including attacks whose goal may be to cause disruption to industrial processes and ones aimed at collecting valuable information.
Group-IB has opened the doors of its European headquarters in Amsterdam, which will serve as a central hub for the company's research into the European threat landscape. The Amsterdam office, located at Prinsengracht 919, is set to intensify the strong European cyber threat knowledge Group-IB had previously, broaden the company's global threat hunting infrastructure and strengthen the on-the-ground support for the company's customer base in the region, which, among others, includes major banks of the Netherlands.
People have preconceived notions of what threat intelligence is, so they make assumptions in conversations and those assumptions are rarely thought about, much less discussed. The assumption and filter is that threat intelligence equals external threat data.
The combination of Infoblox contextual data and the ThreatQ threat intelligence platform enables organizations to categorize, manage and respond to threats faster and more effectively. Infoblox DNS can put more than 45 million threat indicators to work in real-time within BloxOne Threat Defense, which provides advanced DNS security as SaaS-based services from the cloud or as a hybrid on-premises/SaaS solution.
New Zscaler threat research reveals the emerging techniques and impacted industries behind a 260-percent spike in attacks using encrypted channels to bypass legacy security controls. Researchers witnessed a 5x increase in ransomware attacks over encrypted traffic beginning in March, when the World Health Organization declared the virus a pandemic.
Threat Stack announced ThreatML, its new machine learning engine that enhances security observability for the Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform, Threat Stack Oversight, and Threat Stack Insight with anomaly detection. The Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform collects, normalizes, and analyzes over 60 billion events per day from customer cloud infrastructure and applications.
Quantum computers also pose a big security problem. That's because quantum computers don't just pose a threat to tomorrow's sensitive information: they'll be able to decrypt data that has been encrypted in the past, that's being encrypted in the present, and that will be encrypted in the future.
McAfee released a report examining cybercriminal activity related to malware and the evolution of cyber threats in Q2 2020. During this period, there was an average of 419 new threats per minute as overall new malware samples grew by 11.5%. A significant proliferation in malicious Donoff Microsoft Office documents attacks propelled new PowerShell malware up 117%, and the global impact of COVID-19 prompted cybercriminals to adjust their cybercrime campaigns to lure victims with pandemic themes and exploit the realities of a workforce working from home.