The Verizon report says 85% of breaches involved a human element, with stealing user credentials the most favoured technique of cyber criminals.
Organisations need to take a step back, re-strategise their security infrastructure and plan for a post-coronavirus world.
Business resilience, and how Gijima’s Advanced Cyber Defence security capabilities support it, will come under discussion at a virtual series of roundtables in October.
Criminals are after the keys – credentials – and zero trust is how companies can ensure that those stop working if they fall into the wrong hands.
The annual resource highlights the critical work that South African heads of cyber security do to protect organisations from attack.
Sixty-eight percent of system administrators say their organisations have faced increased risk of cyber security attacks due to the shift to remote work.
Partners and customers can now deploy and manage endpoint security, network security and MFA services via WatchGuard Cloud.
Ransomware as a service is a ‘triple threat’ that turns distributed denial of service attacks into an even more lethal cyber weapon against organisations.
This can be attributed to the increase in gaming activities during global lockdowns, says Kaspersky.
Some ransomware operators are moving away from email-initiated payloads, says FortiGuard Labs.
The cyber security field offers a great career opportunity for those willing to invest in it, says Craig Rosewarne, MD of Wolfpack Information Risk.