As COVID-19 vaccinations continue, companies embrace hybrid work, employees return to the office and the U.S. opens up, violence and physical threats to businesses are occurring at an unsettling, record-high pace, according to a new study commissioned by the Ontic Center for Protective Intelligence.

As technology grows and advances, potential cyber threats grow with it. While this notion is nothing new, the current speed of innovation makes it more important than ever to consider the implications these developments will have on our cybersecurity capabilities — especially with cybercriminals becoming more sophisticated and more adept at using emerging blind spots to their advantage.

Two new ransomware groups - BlackMatter and Haron - have emerged this July 2021, soon after the sudden disappearance of top-tier ransomware threat actors DarkSide and REvil. 

In a survey of enterprise IT security executives conducted by Vulcan Cyber, 76% of respondents indicated that a security vulnerability had impacted their business in the last year.

Security spoke to Joey Johnson, Chief Information Security Officer of Premise Health, a direct healthcare provider, about how healthcare security leaders can keep up with rising cybersecurity threats.