IT teams across the globe faced unprecedented challenges in 2020 and 2021, and cybersecurity concerns are at – or near – the top of the list, leading to IT departments investing more in security, according to a new report from Sophos. The cybersecurity giant polled 5,400 IT managers across 30 countries and found that workloads […]
System operators within an electric utility control room are responsible for balancing and maintaining the grid and reliably providing critical resources to millions of people over a wide area. Failures in the electric grid, including downtime or malfunction, could mean life or death. In the mission-critical space of control rooms, systems need to be functioning […]
Microsoft’s August security patches include fixes for 44 vulnerabilities, including three zero days and one that is being actively exploited. The most important patches fix issues related to the Windows Print Spooler remote code execution vulnerability and the Windows LSA spoofing vulnerability and an actively exploited vulnerability in Windows Update Medic Service. Because of the […]
If you aren’t already familiar with ransomware, the increasing frequency of such attacks and the level of sophistication with which cybercriminal gangs deploy the malware, then you need to be paying more attention. The prevailing trend over the course of the last few years is the rise of double extortion, which means that the purpose […]
In this video edition of The Collaboration Space podcast, collaboration experts from Poly discuss considerations for creating a technology plan to support your organization’s return to work.
IT teams everywhere have been busy over the last year and a half helping their organization transition to remote work, and then back to a hybrid work environment as the COVID-19 pandemic began to subside earlier this year. As organizations were scrambling to adopt new technologies and solutions to accommodate those work models, cybercriminals seized, […]
Your organization’s employees are required once a year to complete some form of cybersecurity training, which might include a short online course, training videos and a test to wrap it all up. Whether that model of training is adequate in today’s cyber climate is another question, but what if employees aren’t even taking that rudimentary […]
A pair of new reports from Risk Based Security find that disclosed software and hardware vulnerabilities continue to increase while reported data breaches in most parts of the world decline. For IT administrators struggling to keep pace with the rapid changes in cybersecurity, the reports provide some useful insight into exactly what you’re up against. […]
The U.S. National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released a guide that can help IT administrators and cybersecurity professionals minimize risk in Kubernetes environments as attacks targeting the open-source system are increasing. The guide comes as threat actors are looking for new ways into IT networks, including Kubernetes via supply chain […]
Given the attention cybersecurity has gotten over the last year and a half, it’s no surprise that security is among the top IT areas where companies are investing, according to Kaseya’s 2021 Operations Survey. The IT management software company – which itself early last month was the subject of a massive ransomware supply chain attack […]
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