KnowBe4, a provider of security awareness training and simulated phishing platforms, announced it has promoted special operations engineer Colin Murphy to the chief information officer position. 

CLS announced the appointment of Thomas Barkhuff as Chief Information Officer.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced an agreement with Zoom Video Communications that will provide security protections for more than 300 million meeting participants on the platform.

The number of records exposed for Q1 2020 skyrocketed to 8.4 billion –  a 273 percent increase compared to Q1 2019. 

A new Synopsys report highlights trends and patterns in open source usage within commercial applications, and provides insights and recommendations to help organizations better manage open source risk from a security, license compliance, and operational perspective.

A consortium of industry, government and academia has explored the viability of creating a UK cybersecurity ‘Centre of Excellence’ to better deal with cyber threats in the transportation sector. 

A new Netwrix report reveals that many educational organizations are at risk of data security incidents during the current period of working from home and virtual learning.

Cognizant, IT services provider, expects its Q2 revenue to be significantly impacted due to a ransomware incident that took place in April 2020. 

The personal details of 3,688,060 users registered on the MobiFriends dating app were posted online earlier this year and are now available for download on numerous online forums. 

Alteryx Inc. announced that Billy Spears has joined the company in a new role as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).