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In early December, Tampa FL-based security services firm ReliaQuest, released a separate report discussing the effect of this tendency to purchase individual stand-alone tools to solve newly discovered issues. Problems include more tools than company capacity to productively use them, and a burden of maintenance forcing security teams to spend more time managing the tools than defending against threats.
Facebook, Samsung and Ring have unveiled new or improved privacy and security tools at the 2020 CES consumer electronics show taking place this week in Las Vegas. Facebook announced a revamped version of Privacy Checkup, a tool launched in 2014 in an effort to make it easier for users to manage the information they share on the social media network.
IBM on Wednesday announced the general availability of Cloud Pak for Security, a solution designed to help organizations hunt for threats by combining data from multiple tools and clouds. read more
IBM announced Cloud Pak for Security, featuring industry-first innovations to connect with any security tool, cloud or on-premise system, without moving data from its original source. The platform...
Ransomware tries to slip unnoticed past security controls by abusing trusted and legitimate processes, and then harnesses internal systems to encrypt the maximum number of files and disable backup...
Cyberattacks on small and midsized companies in 2019 cost $200,000 per company on average, mercilessly putting many of them out of business, says CNBC in its analysis of a recent Accenture report....
86% of enterprises have deployed cloud-based tools, but only 34% have implemented single sign-on (SSO), one of the most basic and critically important cloud security tools, according to Bitglass....
Today at its Ignite 2019 conference, Microsoft announced a series of tools to expand the security capabilities of its Azure and Microsoft 365 platforms. read more
Cybercriminals are using enterprise-based development and deployment strategies, such as phishing as a service (PaaS), to leverage some of the world’s largest tech brands, with 42.63% of domains...
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes how the Russian hacking group Turla has been co-opting Iranian hacking tools. Plus: Avast's CCleaner hit by second attack; sizing up draft...