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More than 10 million people were the victims of a single massive data breach, according to an Australian report, Notifiable Data Breaches Quarterly Statistics Report.

More than 64 percent of people use the same password for some, or even all, of their online accounts, while only 21 percent use a different password for each account, according to a news report in the UK.

What can we learn from the SEC and its aggressive agenda?

Seventy-four percent of organizations are impacted by the cybersecurity skills shortage, according to a study of cybersecurity professionals by the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). 

With a growing demand for security trained professionals, what can enterprises do to meet this demand?

President Trump signed an Executive Order directing the federal government to take critical steps to strengthen America’s cybersecurity workforce. 

Cyberattacks by nation states and parties affiliated with them represent 23 percent of data breaches, up from 12 percent in 2018 and 19 percent in 2017, according to the Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).

We have been hearing about the “convergence” of physical and cyber security for years, but even today there are still debates about whether it has happened yet (spoiler alert: it hasn’t). Part of the challenge might be that the word convergence itself can apply to more than one kind of activity – for example, some believe it applies to the linkages or integration of IT and security systems, while others believe it applies to IT and security organizational structures and teams.