We are proud to announce that Bitdefender MDR won the 2020 CRN Tech Innovator Award in the Security – Managed Detection & Response category.
- 76% of all applications have at least one vulnerability
- 1 in 5 organizations do not test their software for security flaws
- 80% of public exploits are published before CVEs are released
- The majority of cybersecurity professionals believe they are overworked or burned out.
- Survey finds security professionals don't get the support they need from their organizations to succeed.
- Overall, challenges around managing staff remains a big hurdle for cybersecurity programs.
- More than 1000 organisations worldwide have had their corporate phone systems hacked by cybercriminals
- Attackers can eavesdrop on calls, as well as make money-making calls to premium-rate numbers
- Researchers seek to understand how businesses rate their security posture in these changing times
- Survey enlists 600 IT pros in companies from $100 million to more than $1 billion in annual revenue
- Respondents admit they need to harden unconventional attack vectors in cloud, mobile and social media technologies
- Half of those surveyed believe internal collaboration platforms represent the biggest risk to security
- COVID-19 has significantly altered the types of tasks that fill a typical IT rep’s day
- IT staff spends more time on virtual tasks like team web meetings, remotely accessing employee devices and customer web meetings
- 47% say they now spend five to eight hours per day solely on IT security matters
- Fear of a cloud data security breach has increased significantly in the past two years
- A similar study shows decision makers are trading personnel for cloud security investments
- More attacks aimed at exploiting unpatched year-old vulnerabilities
- An increase in stealth/covert execution tactics
- APT-hackers-for-hire becoming the new norm
- BEC invoice and payment attacks rose by 150% in Q3 2020
- Wisconsin Republican Party loses $2.3 million from Trump re-election fund through BEC invoice fraud
- BEC scams now cause $26 billion in global losses annually
- Data breaches are just around the next corner for consumers
- 30 percent of consumers already affected by a data breach don’t care about it
- Consumers fear using credit cards online because there’s always a chance for their data to end up in a data breach
- Researchers find a 114% increase in remote workers coupled with a 59% increase in adoption of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies
- Situation ‘wreaks havoc’ among enterprise IT security teams as volume of threats and security incidents increase dramatically
- Decision makers develop an appetite for cloud security solutions as IT staff and budgets diminish
US Federal Sector Accelerates Investments in Network Visibility to Cope with Telework Security Risks
- Federal agencies across the US have increased deployment of network visibility solutions
- Most IT leaders equate network visibility to a robust cybersecurity posture
- Automated threat detection is an essential feature of a network visibility solution, according to 24% of IT leaders in the federal sector
- Ryuk ransomware poses a credible and imminent threat to US healthcare industry, claims advisory from the FBI, CISA, and HHS.
- Hospitals told to harden their defences and ensure they have a mitigation strategy which can be deployed quickly.
