Thirty-two percent of businesses and 22 percent of charities are experiencing more cybersecurity attacks, the 2019 Cyber Security Breaches Survey says.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is fundamentally changing the way in which businesses deal with the personal information of California residents.
UK IT leaders are alarmingly willing to cover up a data breach, with more than 3 in 5 (61 percent) saying they would do so if it meant they could escape fines, a new report reveals.
More than two billion files exposed across SMB-enabled file shares, misconfigured network-attached storage (NAS) devices, FTP and rsync servers and Amazon S3 buckets were found.
It can be expected that costs associated with cybercrime will rise in the near to medium term and have a material impact on the global economy – while putting individual citizens’ and corporations’ important data at risk by cyber criminals. Due to the convergence of an escalation in the number of security vulnerabilities, an increase in hacker capabilities and tools as well as new legislation being enacted in the European Union, the estimated costs due to cybercrime may be conservative.
The growing threat of cyberattacks is a huge cause for concern. According to some of the country’s foremost intelligence experts, the U.S. may encounter a massive cyberattack on the horizon. An attack of this scale is predicted to cause damage comparable to a Category 5 hurricane, where everything from vehicles to pacemakers could be compromised. The country needs to be ready – and not just the public sector. Private businesses, regardless of size, would be taking an extreme risk if the necessary precautions are not put into place.
Only 29% of healthcare organizations report having a comprehensive security program in place.
December 1, 2018
Six months after the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect, enterprises are finding that privacy regulation is costing more than anticipated.
