With the outbreak of COVID-19, the demand for remote work has increased exponentially. Working from home presents a different set of cybersecurity challenges with most home offices having off-the-shelf routers with minimal security countermeasures.
The new remote work and remote learner environments provide...
More ransomware-wielding gangs are not just crypto-locking victims' systems, but also stealing and threatening to leak data unless they get their demanded bitcoin ransom payoff. A growing number of security experts believe the strategy is leading more victims to pay.
Organizations must carefully re-examine their security procedures to make sure they're adequate for the new work-from-home environment during the COVID-19 crisis, says Shelton Newsham, a British law enforcement official who specializes in cybersecurity. He reviews key questions to ask.
If an organization fails to stop a ransomware attack, how does it recover the data? Backups, of course, are essential. But Peter Marelas of Dell Technologies says organizations should have a well-developed strategy for backups because attackers are increasingly targeting those systems as well.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses securing RDP to prevent ransomware attacks. Also featured: A look at three likely scenarios for the COVID19 pandemic, and an analysis of why we're still using PINs for certain card payments.
Security experts and law enforcement officials have long argued that paying ransoms doesn't pay. For starters, it directly funds the cybercrime ecosystem and makes it attractive for criminals to keep launching ransomware attacks.
Magellan Health, a U.S. managed care company that focuses on specialty areas of healthcare, says it was hit by a ransomware attack that involved the exfiltration of data. Ransomware gangs are increasingly going beyond encrypting data, stealing information to put more pressure on victims to pay ransoms.
Australian shipping giant Toll Group has vowed to again not pay a ransom after suffering its second ransomware attack of the year. In the latest incident, however, the company warns that attackers also stole corporate data - and it may get leaked.
Many companies around the world have the same problem: how should they cope with the ever-growing amount of data? And how are they supposed to protect all this data? Cloud-based object storage strategy can be used to reduce the costs and long term benefits.
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The rise of object storage and...
According to the results of Frost & Sullivan's Digital Transformation survey, 99% of businesses are engaged in some stage of a Digital Transformation. But the path to Digital Transformation can be challenging:- 57% of IT leaders cite "Insufficient expertise" as a restraint in deploying their Digital Transformation...
As consumers and customers, we are accustomed to easy, intuitive, and superfast transactions driven by data. Therefore, businesses have the various challenges of managing and mining the data they produce and use, but also ensuring that their digital experience is 100% reliable for their customers - so the chain of...
CISOs and their teams are being asked to deal with new risks during a period of unprecedented disruption. With finances strained, it is probably not the right time to be asking for increased budgets. So how should CISOs and their teams rise to the challenge, do more with less and position themselves to move out the...
In 2020, most new cyber attacks will come through encrypted traffic.
Currently companies, incl. midsize companies have perimeter-based security appliances. But with data and applications moving into the cloud, and the majority of employees in the network accessing corporate data and applications remotely, the...
There are three distinct scenarios for how the COVID-19 virus might spread over the next 18 to 24 months, says pandemic expert Regina Phelps. None is pleasant, but one may exact a smaller economic and human toll. And our next moves might determine which scenario unfolds.
Diebold Nixdorf, one of the largest makers of ATMs, says it sustained a ransomware attack on April 25, but it experienced only a "limited IT systems outage" and ATM machines were not affected.
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