Cloud Infrastructure Spending To Reach $112.9 billion by 2025
Cloud infrastructure spending is expected to grow by 11.3% over 2021-2025, reaching $112.9 billion in 2025, says IDC.
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Microsoft Warns of Sneaky Phishing Campaign
Microsoft is warning of an active phishing campaign that uses a combination of techniques to evade detection and trick users into giving up their credentials. In a series of Tweets and updates on GitHub, Microsoft’s security team says the active phishing campaign uses a “craft combination” of legitimate-looking original sender email addresses, spoofed display sender […]
Cybersecurity Skills Gap Is Getting Worse, Report Says
Threat actors are becoming more skilled and attacks are increasing in level of sophistication, and the cybersecurity workforce can’t keep pace, according to a new study from the Information Systems Security Association. The study, conducted by ISSA and analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group, found that organizations largely are not investing enough into their cybersecurity workforce […]
What’s In Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.100
Microsoft has announced that the latest build of Windows 11, Insider Preview Build 22000.100, has hit the Beta channel for Windows Insiders, and it includes a ton of new features that the rest of us are waiting for when the new version of Windows hits the shelves later this year. However, the Teams Chat integration […]
Report: Pandemic Led to More Expensive Data Breaches
According to a report by IBM security, data breaches hit record highs in terms of cost due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the pandemic, data breaches were becoming a more frequent problem for organizations, but due to multiple factors, they became more problematic in the past year. IBM Security hired Ponemon Institute to compile […]
Ransom Payments Are Declining
Coveware reports Q2 ransom payments amounts are declining as ransomware becomes a national security priority.
Microsoft: Zero Trust Is Now A Top IT Priority
As organizations look for new ways to deal with the growing threat of cyberattacks, Zero Trust is increasingly becoming mainstream among IT and cybersecurity professionals, according to a new report from Microsoft. The IT giant has released its Zero Trust Adoption Report 2021 in which more than 1,200 security decision-makers were surveyed about their Zero […]
Is the Great Resignation Increasing Cloud App Security Risks?
Departing employees, ahead of their departure, pose an increase in cloud app security risk as they upload files to personal apps.
SolarWinds Report: IT Pros, Leaders Aligning More on Cyber Risk
Eight months after the Russia-led highly sophisticated hacking campaign leveraging the SolarWinds Orion platform, the company has released its annual IT Trends Report, this one highlighting how IT professionals perceive their organization’s cyber risk management and mitigation after a tumultuous year. The report touches on everything from external threats, internal threats, remote work policies and […]
Patch These Heavily Exploited Vulnerabilities Now
When a vendor or security researcher discloses a vulnerability in an IT product, organizations should be quick to apply the patch or implement a secure workaround to protect networks from bad actors that are quick to exploit that vulnerability. When those vulnerabilities are in widely used products from popular vendors like Citrix, Pulse, Microsoft and […]
