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NortonLifeLock, Fortinet, McAfee, Avast, Trend Micro, Bitdefender, ESET, Kaspersky Lab, Comodo, F-Secure, AHNLAB – Materials Handling

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Predicting Growth Scope: Computer Security for Consumer Market
With so many positive trends shaping the market it’s no doubt that Computer Security for Consumer Market and you as the market player will catch up with other industries in delivering efficient customer experience, improve revenue, and better compete in the market. Although the Computer Security for Consumer market stands at a good growth now, it is undergoing rapid changes, challenges, risks, along with changing pricing and buying patterns especially due to the covid-19 pandemic. Thus, it is important to get better insight about the market and obtain information of all the market aspects.

This report is a comprehensive guide to the future of the Computer Security for Consumer market with analytical approach of the Computer Security for Consumer industry. The technological, economic, and social factors that are seen to be having a major impact on the market are studied in the report. The report delineates critical trends in the Computer Security for Consumer market.

Competition Spectrum:
NortonLifeLock
Fortinet
McAfee
Avast
Trend Micro
Bitdefender
ESET
Kaspersky Lab
Comodo
F-Secure
AHNLAB

The report highlights the strategies undertaken leading firms for market fortification that help market players plan and execute strategies to make most of the trends. Players that are innovating, testing new formats, and dominating the Computer Security for Consumer marketplace are highlighted in the report. The report gives all the essential insights about the market players such as product portfolios, recovery strategies, financial information, production, geographical footprint, strategic initiatives, and new product launches are detailed in the report. This information will help market player willing to create a competitive advantage in the pursuit of Computer Security for Consumer industry leadership.

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Highlights of the Report:
• Trends that will shape the Computer Security for Consumer industry the decade ahead.
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Handling Setbacks in the Time of COVID-19

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Most security experts, IT workers and leaders understand that the pandemic brought a decline in business and digital safety. A big part of that is the rush to get set up at home and establish remote work security. But why, exactly? It turns out that surprising factors degraded the security of the remote workforce.

Let’s start with the most obvious: remote work security. The pandemic ushered in a sudden and unplanned experiment with remote work at scale. First, employees stopped working in physically secure locations inside firewalls with approved devices and started working from home. It’s something of a cliche to say that remote work expands the attack surface. But the fallout of this is just now becoming clear. The change brought a lot of remote work security challenges.

Remote Work Security Factors: Poorly Vetted Tools

The rush to remote work demanded new tools, but employers didn’t have time to vet that tech for safety. As a result, apps and services are, on average, less secure than they used to be. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of 1,300 security leaders surveyed by Forrester Consulting say recent cyber attacks come from vulnerabilities in tech deployed during the pandemic. 

More Shadow IT

Employers literally leave their people to their own devices when working at home. Many employees are being creative about which devices they use for work, threatening remote home security. Remote employees connect over home networks that also serve smart thermostats, connected toys, home entertainment systems, gaming consoles and many random home Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These devices are likely to lack physical security and tend to be rarely or never updated. 

Lack of Visibility

 Making matters worse, organizations lack visibility into the home networks of remote staff. This, in turn, creates barriers to organizational cybersecurity.  

Increased Use of Cloud Services

Another huge problem, whose scale the security company Zscaler recently uncovered, is that large companies often have hundreds of cloud servers exposed to the public internet. By “exposed,” they mean that anyone can connect if they can find the services. Many…

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Biden assails Trump over handling of Russia hack

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The US government has not made a formal assessment of who was behind the attack, but both Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr have said all signs point to Russia. But Trump, who has long sidestepped blaming Moscow for its provocations, has not followed suit and has instead suggested — without evidence — that China may have carried out the hack.

The breach of the Treasury Department began in July, but experts believe the overall hacking operation began months earlier when malicious code was slipped into updates to popular software that monitors computer networks of businesses and governments.

“The truth is, the Trump administration failed to prioritize cybersecurity,” Biden said. “This assault happened on Donald Trump’s watch, while he wasn’t watching.”

Given Trump’s reluctance to publicly blame Russia, it appears likely that any formal US retaliation for the hacking will fall to Biden. The president-elect said he would work with allies to set up international rules to hold nation states accountable for cyberattacks and vowed that his administration would make cybersecurity a top priority.

Biden spoke a day after Congress passed a $900 billion coronavirus aid bill that includes direct payments to many Americans and aid for struggling small businesses. He called the bill a “down payment” on a broader relief bill he plans to introduce when he takes office in January.

“Like all compromises, this is far from perfect,” Biden said. “Congress did their job this week, and I can and I must ask them to do it again next year.”

The president-elect also expressed empathy for families who have struggled this year through the pandemic and resulting economic uncertainty. He singled out in particular front-line workers, scientists, researchers, clinical trial participants, and those with deployed family members during the holiday season.

“Our hearts are always with you — keep the faith,” said Biden, even as he warned that the nation faces a “dark winter” as COVID-19 cases rise across the country. More than 320,000 people have died from the virus in the United States.

He urged Americans to continue to take precautions, particularly during…

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Arrest Numbers Show The NYPD Is Handling Pandemic Enforcement With The Same Biased Enthusiasm It Put Into Stop And Frisk

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You can take the stop-and-frisk out of the NYPD, but you can’t remove the biased policing, as the old saying goes. The NYPD may have been forced to stop pushing every minority up against the nearest wall/fence/cop car after a federal court determined this to be a violation of their rights, but they’re apparently continuing to enforce laws very selectively.

On Thursday night, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office became the first prosecutor in the city to release statistics on social-distancing enforcement. In the borough, the police arrested 40 people for social-distancing violations from March 17 through May 4, the district attorney’s office said.

Of those arrested, 35 people were black, four were Hispanic and one was white.

More than a third of the arrests were made in the predominantly black neighborhood of Brownsville. No arrests were made in the more white Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope.

So, this is more than just anecdotal evidence. It’s, you know, evidence evidence. Plenty of anecdotal evidence exists of inconsistent social distancing enforcement is available, if you’re interested in seeing that as well.

This bothers Mayor Bill De Blasio — the man who won the election by promising to be someone other than Mike Bloomberg, who loudly and proudly supported the NYPD’s “right” to harass and detain minorities. But he’s not upset enough. And he’s upset incorrectly. Critics are calling this selective enforcement of pandemic efforts a new stop-and-frisk. De Blasio is only upset about the terminology.

“What happened with stop and frisk was a systematic, oppressive, unconstitutional strategy that created a new problem much bigger than anything it purported to solve,” he said. “This is the farthest thing from that. This is addressing a pandemic. This is addressing the fact that lives are in danger all the time. By definition, our police department needs to be a part of that because safety is what they do.”

That’s just talking around the problem. Yes, the pandemic response isn’t “systematic,” but the ingrained habits that have resulted in minorities being disproportionately targeted by NYPD officers certainly are. And his siding with the NYPD aligns him more with the man he replaced than the public that elected him. Both De Blasio and Police Commissioner Dermot F. Shea claim this enforcement has been deployed “sparingly and fairly.” It’s hard to square “fairly” with the numbers released by the Brooklyn DA.

It also doesn’t square with the total arrest numbers provided by the NYPD.

Citywide, black people make up 68 percent of those arrested on charges of violating social-distancing rules, while Hispanic people make up 24 percent, a deputy police commissioner, Richard Esposito, said late on Thursday night.

Only seven percent of the social distancing arrests citywide involved Caucasians.

The police union spoke up, because of course it did. The head of the PBA made one halfway decent point about bad laws and the problems inherent in enforcing them…

Patrick J. Lynch, the president of the Police Benevolent Association, declined to comment on Officer Garcia’s actions, but noted he and his colleagues “did not create the poorly conceived social-distancing policy they were sent out to enforce.”

… but followed that up by defending an officer who has been sued seven times and cost the city more than $ 200,000 in settlements. Officer Francisco X. Garcia was involved in a controversial social distancing arrest in which he punched a man onto the ground and then sat on him as he was handcuffed. Garcia has been removed from duty while this arrest is being investigated, which is apparently the equivalent of hanging this sinless man on the cross.

[Lynch] said City Hall was blaming Officer Garcia for carrying out the policy it had created. “Once again, our leaders are poised to trample a police officer’s rights in order to protect themselves,” he said.

Ah yes. Let’s not “trample” those rights. But the rights of everyone else can be trampled while the NYPD fumbles its way through the pandemic, making minorities pay the price for the social distancing sins of an entire city.

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