The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization “established to support victims of identity crime.” The recently released Data Breach Annual Report provides statistics and perspectives on cyberattacks. Here’s what organizations need to know: The overall number of data breaches rose a whopping 68 percent in 2021. There were 1,862 individual breaches last year, surpassing 2020’s …
How The Current Threat Landscape Impacts Authentication Security
Repercussions from the ongoing pandemic are still reverberating through workplaces all over the world. Businesses are racing to catch up with the changes they’ve had to make to accommodate remote workers, digitalization, and new cloud technologies. Many have let their cybersecurity practices fall to the wayside in a rush to evolve with the times. In a report by PwC, 64% …
Get Involved in Cybersecurity Now
All Hands on Deck The average person is familiar with the idea of security systems at large organizations: key cards, security guards, and ID badges. Similarly, we have a grasp on some small-scale home security: motion-detecting lights, home cameras, and our physical locks and keys. What we haven’t come to terms with is that the digital landscape. It isn’t the …
Can AI be Used to Mitigate Human Error?
Each month that passes, the cybersecurity industry continues to struggle with new hacking techniques, rapidly evolving threats, and how to communicate the severity of the issues to organizations. One problem that can’t necessarily be solved by cybersecurity professionals is the broad category of ‘human error’. In his IT Toolbox article, Josh Horwitz (COO of Enzoic) discusses whether or not Artificial …
Cyberattacks on Municipalities & How to Defend Against Them
Cyberattacks continue to have a massive economic impact on local and state branches of governments across the U.S. When sectors of government are breached, the credibility of their institutions is jeopardized, leading to a negative cycle of resource allocation. When focusing on municipalities, it’s particularly easy to see how detrimental the impact can be. A Perfect Target Municipalities are ideal …
Cybersecurity and What’s Not Working from Home
Though 2021 signals positivity, including vaccines for COVID-19, some changes in the workforce due to coronavirus are likely to stick around. Many things are possible from the relative comfort of our own homes, from university lectures to financial consultancy. In the next year, even as we return to some form of immunized normalcy, remote work will likely remain popular. However, …
Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2020
Cybersecurity and infosec are constantly evolving. Today, organizations are doing everything in their power to harden their defenses, protect their internal networks, and secure data from increasing internal and external threats. The need to be ahead of bad actors causes new cybersecurity trends to emerge every year. The following 2020 cybersecurity trends are important ones to watch. #1: Automation for …