Acronis researchers have concluded that ransomware continues to be the number one threat to large and medium-sized businesses, including government organizations.
This Help Net Security video highlights why organizations and businesses need a more holistic approach to cybersecurity.
BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 17. The number of
requests in Azerbaijan related to computer security amounted to 3
million in the first half of 2022, the Center for Combating
Computer Incidents (CERT) told Trend.
Some 94.3 percent (2.8 million) of the total number of requests
were considered and satisfied.
According to CERT, the computer incident response team prepared
and sent 204 reports to the relevant structures based on the
information security audit, during the reporting period.
Additionally, 28 domain names and 85 subdomains were registered
in the Azerbaijani segment of the Internet from January through
June 2022.
The number of unique cyber incidents in the Azerbaijani segment
of the Internet decreased by 20.3 percent in 2021 compared to 2020,
to 3.9 million.
This story originally appeared in MintPress News on June 21, 2022. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons license.
SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of employment and recruitment websites, MintPress has ascertained that the social media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from the national security state to work in the fields of security, trust, safety and content.
Chief amongst these is the Federal Bureau of Investigations. The FBI is generally known as a domestic security and intelligence force. However, it has recently expanded its remit into cyberspace. “The FBI’s investigative authority is the broadest of all federal law enforcement agencies,” the “About” section of its website informs readers. “The FBI has divided its investigations into a number of programs, such as domestic and international terrorism, foreign counterintelligence [and] cyber crime,” it adds.
For example, in 2019, Dawn Burton (the former director of Washington operations for Lockheed Martin) was poached from her job as senior innovation advisor to the director at the FBI to become senior director of strategy and operations for legal, public policy, trust and safety at Twitter. The following year, Karen Walsh went straight from 21 years at the bureau to become director of corporate resilience at the silicon valley giant. Twitter’s deputy general counsel and vice president of legal, Jim Baker, also spent four years at the FBI between 2014 and 2018, where his resumé notes he rose to the role of senior strategic advisor.
Meanwhile, Mark Jaroszewski ended his 21-year posting as a supervisory special agent in the Bay Area to take up a position at Twitter, rising to become director of corporate security and risk. And Douglas Turner spent 14 years as a senior special agent and SWAT Team leader before being recruited to serve in Twitter’s corporate and executive security services. Previously, Turner had also spent seven years as a secret service special agent with the Department of Homeland Security.
When asked to comment by MintPress, former FBI…
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Global Enterprise Endpoint Security Market – Forecasts from 2022 to 2027” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
Endpoint security is the technique of preventing harmful actors and campaigns from exploiting endpoints or entry points of end-user devices such as PCs, laptops, and mobile devices. Endpoint security solutions on a system or cloud protect against cybersecurity threats. Endpoint security has progressed beyond antivirus software to supply comprehensive security against sophisticated malware and new zero-day dangers.
Nation-states, hacktivists, organized crime, and purposeful and unintentional insider threats all pose a hazard to businesses of all sizes. Endpoint security is frequently referred to as cybersecurity’s frontline, and it is one of the first places where businesses attempt to defend their networks. Due to several benefits, such as cost savings with cloud storage, compute scalability, and low maintenance requirements, enterprise use of SaaS-based or cloud-delivered endpoint security solutions continues to grow.
The growing number of enterprise endpoints and mobile devices with access to sensitive data has created a tremendous need for endpoint security solutions, which is expected to drive the market.
In today’s environment, mobile gadgets such as smartphones and tablets have become necessary for both individuals and businesses. The number of employees using their phones for work is fast expanding, and mobile devices and applications have presented a slew of new attack vectors and data security challenges.
These cyber dangers range from Trojans and viruses to botnets and toolkits, and they can have a significant impact on the broader network, putting sensitive and private data at risk. For example, according to the Mobile Security Report 2021 by Check Point, 97 percent of businesses globally were hit by mobile attacks that used several attack vectors. At least one employee in 46 percent of those businesses downloaded a malicious app to their phone.
According to the same report, nearly every firm had at least one smartphone malware assault in 2020. The mobile network was responsible for 93…
