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State-sponsored programs from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea pose the greatest high-tech threats to Canada, a report from the nation's authority on cyber security warned Wednesday. "The number of cyber threat actors is rising, and they are becoming more sophisticated", the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security said.
Sophos published a report which flags how ransomware and fast-changing attacker behaviors, from advanced to entry level, will shape the threat landscape and IT security in 2021. "Commodity malware can seem like a sandstorm of low-level noise clogging up the security alert system. From what Sophos analyzed, it is clear that defenders need to take these attacks seriously, because of where they might lead.".
The research findings point to an industry whose security teams are seeing the IT and OT environments converging at a rapid pace. Manufacturing organizations are struggling to safeguard OT assets as they are using the same tools to safeguard their IT infrastructure as they are for OT. As a result, IT teams can't keep up with growing volumes of security data or the increasing number of security alerts.
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"We know what you're thinking:"Another year; another vendor; another threat report. We've combined research from a number of threat prevention groups inside Sophos, including SophosLabs, Sophos Managed Threat Response, Sophos Rapid Response, Sophos AI, and our Cloud Security team, to deliver a comprehensive review of the security landscape.
Ransomware still remains the most common cyber threat to SMBs, with 60% of MSPs reporting that their SMB clients have been hit as of Q3 2020, Datto reveals. Likely due to increasing sophistication and complexity of ransomware attacks, almost half of MSPs now partner with specialized Managed Security Service Providers for IT security assistance - to protect both their clients and their own businesses.
Insider threats from employees and others given access to the network were more easily monitored because they were always connected in some capacity, and so malicious activity could be easily detected. Organizations must define long-term policies for how employees access company-owned assets, especially if they intend to allow employees to work from home indefinitely.
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.