According to Carbon Black, 70% of all attacks attempt some kind of lateral movement. Indicating that an attack in one part of your business will most likely effect another. Meaning, if you feel you have an employee that is not important enough to be trained on cybersecurity awareness, think again!
In the digital world we live in, information is the new currency, and that currency needs to be protected. Good cybersecurity awareness is not just for organizations and not just for governments — it’s for individuals everywhere. In a connected world, we each have a responsibility to protect ourselves and [...]
Ransomware has become the most popular form of malware in data security breaches, according to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report. The report is based on 53,308 security incidents, 2,216 data breaches, and 67 contributors globally. Ransomware started to appear in 2013 and has become the top variety of [...]
In April of 2018, Utah-based company HealthEquity reported 23,000 accounts were compromised in a data breach when an employee fell for a phishing scheme. As a result of human error, information like employee names, deduction amounts and social security numbers were exposed. The HealthEquity breach is hardly an isolated incident [...]
The average cost of a data breach rose 6.4% year-over-year to about $3.9 million in 2018, according to research sponsored by IBM Security and conducted by the Ponemon Institute. The average cost for each lost record rose to $148 from $141, an increase of 4.8% from 2017, while the average [...]
According to a recent study, the problem with the Cybersecurity skills gap is only getting worse. 2014: 23 percent of respondents claimed their organization had a problematic shortage of cybersecurity skills 2015: 25 percent of respondents claimed their organization had a problematic shortage of cybersecurity skills 2016: 46 percent of [...]
Personal information of thousands of FedEx customers worldwide was exposed on the web due to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage server which was carelessly NOT secured with a password. Many data breaches don’t involve sophisticated hackers – just a question of someone being careless. Despite all of the [...]
In the last week alone there have been at least seven reported data breaches. These breaches are happening at companies like Delta, Best Buy, Panera, and many others. Between January 2005 and March 2018, there have been over 8,800 breaches, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Combined those breaches [...]
Interesting stat number 1: A study by Ponemon in February of 2018 found that 80 percent of cybersecurity and IT experts anticipate a catastrophic data breach at their companies by 2021. Interesting stat number 2: According to the Ponemon Institute, the average time for breach detection is 191 days, i.e. [...]
Those of us even remotely familiar with cybersecurity strategies understand that it’s not about making sure you are never breached but rather knowing how to detect and respond in the best way possible. When a breach or cyber incident occurs – an organization can face serious ramifications for failing to [...]