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Hal Lonas of OpenText Shares Cybersecurity PredictionsWebroot just released its 2020 Threat Report. How has the landscape changed, and what cybersecurity predictions are made for 2020? Hal Lonas...

Careless and malicious insiders, overly complex IT infrastructure and having an excess of privileged users continue to pose serious risks to the integrity of corporate cybersecurity practices, says Timothy Brown of SolarWinds. The most important steps that IT and security professionals should be taking now to protect their organizations.

What role can technology now play in improving insider threat detection and response? Three CISOs share their insights. Joining ISMG's Tom Field to discuss insider threat are: Dawn Cappelli, vice president of global security and CISO of Rockwell Automation; Sujeet Bambawale, CISO of 7-Eleven; Solomon Adote, chief security officer of the state of Delaware; and Tony Pepper, CEO and co-founder of Egress Software Technologies.

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection announced at RSA Conference 2020 several advances in the company's modern cyber protection approach. As a result, an organization's data, applications, and systems are prime targets for cyberattacks - and since modern cyberthreats target backup files and systems, data, applications and systems need to be protected by proven data protection solutions that also integrate cutting-edge security capabilities.

SCYTHE, a leader in continuous adversarial emulation, is introducing the SCYTHE Marketplace at the RSA Conference 2020. The SCYTHE Marketplace opens up SCYTHE's synthetic malware creation platform to trusted third party developers so that they can turn their experience and expertise into new capabilities for a vibrant security ecosystem.

In a RSA 2020 simulation, the Red Team compromised email accounts, created deepfake videos and spread disinformation on Election Day in Adversaria.

As companies continue to grapple with the challenges of insider threats, machine learning coupled with behavioral analytics can assist in predicting and detecting potential threats from employees and contractors, according to a panel of security experts at RSA 2020. To mitigate insider threats, experts suggest that enterprises develop their own risk algorithms by coupling machine learning capabilities with behavioral analytics to understand discrepancies in employee activities.

There is a darker side to the Latin American hacking scene. "The cartels aren't using hackers to provide an alternative to drug money, just a relatively easy additional source of income - it's easier to use a hacker to syphon money out of an ATM than to break into one, or rob a bank."

Spam, ransomware, and malware continue to haunt organizations, but bad actors are also cooking up new spins on these tried-and-true methods, according to security company Fortinet. A report from Fortinet on the threat landscape for the final quarter of 2019 reveals that cybercriminals will exploit every possible opportunity, both new and old, to attack organizations and users alike.

With cyber criminals using multiple attack vectors to reach their targets, SecBI, a disruptive player in cyber defense, announced the launch of its XDR Platform, designed for continuous and automated threat detection, investigation and response on all attack vectors, with a Fortune 500 company among its first customers. SecBI's newly released XDR platform takes a multi-vector approach, applying a proactive layer of machine learning-based analytics across all endpoint, network, and cloud security tools.