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...
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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Many healthcare organizations have under-resourced security teams, putting them at higher risk for cyber incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic that could result in patient harm, warns cybersecurity expert Joshua Corman.
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.
Within a few days of President Donald Trump testing positive for a COVID-19 virus infection, fraudsters began deploying phishing emails using the president's health as a lure, according to the security firms Proofpoint and KnowBe4.
A recent ransomware attack on a provider of software used by firms involved with COVID-19 vaccine development and other drug clinical trials illustrates increasing cyberthreats facing medical industry supply chain partners.
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.
Prior to COVID-19, Kumar Ramachandran of Palo Alto Networks declared 2020 the "year of the early majority" for SD-WAN adoption. How has the pandemic only amped up the need for better bandwidth, visibility and centralized management - all at a lower cost? Ramachandran explains.
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.
While the response to coronavirus has been unprecedented, for many businesses this "work-from-home" experiment launches them into decidedly unfamiliar territory.
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