The imperative for CISOs during the COVID-19 pandemic is to do more with less. While disruptive attacks - as well as privacy concerns - keep rising, budgets are down. As organizations rapidly adopt new technologies, however, EY's Kris Lovejoy says CISOs must seize the opportunity to streamline.
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, a multinational pharmaceutical company based in India that's testing a COVID-19 vaccine, says it isolated its data center services Thursday following what it calls a "detected cyberattack."
COVID-19 has entirely altered the state of modern healthcare, resulting in an unprecedented paradigm shift. The pandemic has demonstrated where strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities exist in the healthcare industry's ability to react to catastrophic events. Additionally, current circumstances have also been...
The surge in digital channel usage brought on by COVID-19 forced financial institutions to accelerate digital transformation as a way to address growing demand. With previous investment weighted towards customer experience, financial institutions have had to re-evaluate their digital strategy with a renewed focus on...
As organizations have navigated their way through return to office scenarios, there are a number of new employee expectations and employer considerations to think through. Rather than only focusing on the point-in-time circumstances of "secure work-from-home" operations, many organizations are considering a proactive...
To mitigate the risks posed by ransomware attacks, enterprises need to move from file-based security to a behavior-based approach, says Jennifer Ayers, vice president of the OverWatch division of Crowdstrike.
The distributed workforce, combined with the need to modernize and improve operational efficiency, has reframed digital transformation priorities and introduced new areas of risk to today's enterprise. In light of ongoing macroeconomic demands, the CISO is facing increasing pressure to deliver value.
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Organizations worldwide need to be "ruthless in their prioritization" of scarce resources for data security in 2021 and beyond, says Bobby Ford, global CISO of consumer brands giant Unilever, who will be a featured speaker at ISMG's Virtual Cybersecurity and Fraud Summit: London on Oct. 20.
Ransomware attacks remain the top cyber-enabled threat seen by law enforcement. But phishing, business email compromises and other types of fraud - many now using a COVID-19 theme - also loom large, Europol warns in its latest Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment.
Steve Jobs once said: "Marketing is about values." But how well is the cybersecurity solutions message being received amid the convergence of pandemic and economic strains? We brought an outspoken group of CMOs and CISOs together to discuss the topic.
2020's health crisis has created an unexpected boom in telemedicine initiatives. But with this rapid innovation and adoption comes a corresponding uptick in fraud. Dean Nicolls of Jumio Corporation talks about how improving identity verification can help curb the trend.
Digital identity is coming of age as a way to enable COVID-19 contact tracing, crack down on payment fraud and much more, says Tony Craddock of the Emerging Payments Association.
Contact Centers serving financial and banking organizations have quite a challenge regarding the verification of consumers. This is multiplied
by having to deal with the abrupt change from a mix of online and in-person points of contact to the necessary requirement that consumer interaction happens without any...
Over the last year, nation-state hackers, including those with links to the Russian government, have shifted from targeting critical infrastructure to focusing on think tanks, human rights groups and nongovernment organizations in an attempt to influence public policy, according to Microsoft.
McAfee is set to become a public company once again, with the cybersecurity firm filing for an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to trade under "MCFE" on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Separately, Ivanti announced that it would buy security firms MobileIron and Pulse Secure.
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