The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued guidance to its regulated entities regarding heightened cybersecurity awareness as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As COVID-19 has forced organizations to suddenly halt operations or institute work-from-home initiatives, there is greater opportunity for security incidents and greater data security responsibility with less direct oversight. Remote work poses its own challenges for enterprise risk managers, as well, such as addressing evolving vulnerabilities and threats unique to new environments. One area that will need to be monitored now more than ever is that of the insider threat, argue many enterprise security leaders.
Procurify, a Vancouver-based spend management platform, announced that it will award home office upgrades to workers whose offices have been shuttered during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Due to COVID-19, there are more Americans conducting life online than ever before – over 70 percent are teleworking, and of that, 34 percent have been granted telework options who would otherwise not have had them – but 62 percent have signed up for new tools and platforms to work, study or play.
In a recent investigation of deep and dark web forums, IntSights researchers came across a cybercriminal who shared a database containing more than 2,300 usernames and passwords to Zoom accounts.
Neustar's Security Operations Center (SOC) saw a 168 percent increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in Q4 2019, compared with Q4 2018, and a 180 percent increase overall in 2019 vs. 2018.
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned worldwide social and business interactions upside down, stoking fear and panic everywhere from main street to Wall Street.
The overnight move to a “virtual workplace” has increased cybersecurity concerns for small business owners, but many still have not implemented remote working policies to address cybersecurity threats, according to a new survey by the Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI).
A Gartner, Inc. survey of 317 CFOs and Finance leaders on March 30, 2020* revealed that 74 percent intend to move at least five percent of their previously on-site workforce to permanently remote positions post-COVID 19.
Indeed released a pulse survey of how Americans workers are coping with the COVID-19 crisis. Worries about finances, including lost or reduced wages, is the top concern among those surveyed, with 35 percent saying it was what they are most concerned about with their working life.
