Ransomware continues to be a prevalent threat for enterprises across the globe. The 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found ransomware was featured in 27 percent of malware incidents (compared to 24 percent in the 2019 DBIR) and 18 percent of organizations reported blocking at least one piece of ransomware last year. 

Prior to the global health crisis, the most recent survey from Global Workplace Analytics found that only 3.6% of the employee workforce works from home half-time or more. Clearly that percentage is surging as government guidelines mandate people work from home, self-quarantine and use social distancing.

We’re pleased that Dark Reading published a new blog by our President and CRO Gordon Lawson. Our customers began reaching out to us for recommendations on training modules that team members could take to quickly prepare themselves to mitigate the risk of the new “work from home” reality.

According to IDC, cloud spend is out-pacing non-cloud spend by 8x. The same report estimates that half a trillion dollars will be spent on cloud hardware, software and services by 2020. It’s clear that almost every organization on the planet is on a cloud journey of some sort, as Gartner predicts that 75% of them will have deployed a multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud model for IT by 2020.

Microsoft Teams has rapidly become a key collaboration tool for many organizations quickly growing from 44 million to over 75 million users in just a few months. However, if not set up properly from the start it can potentially leave your business-critical data exposed from accidental sharing or oversharing with the wrong individuals or Teams – or worse theft. Ensure Microsoft Teams information protection success and avoid any pitfalls by making sure you provision sites/teams with these 3 key practices in place.

While enterprises have experimented with work from home policies for years, the experiment suddenly shifted to be the only option as COVID-19 forced millions of employees into remote work in an attempt to slow the transmission of the deadly disease. While WFH is not a new concept, it had never been attempted at this large of a scale, nor had it been embraced by all companies.

The Cofense Phishing Defence Center (PDC) has uncovered a wide-ranging attempt to compromise credentials from five different African financial institutions. Posing as tax collection authorities, adversaries seek to collect account numbers, user IDs, PINs and cell phone numbers from unsuspecting customers.

Orem, Utah – May 28, 2020 – AccessData Group, a leading provider of integrated digital forensics and e-discovery software, today announced the release of FTK® and AD Lab 7.3, new versions of the company’s digital forensics software solutions that feature enhancements that make it easier for users to parse and investigate mobile devices and internet-based artifacts.

Cofense was one of the first to report on the risk of COVID-19 themed phishing threats and launched its Coronavirus Infocenter on March 12, 2020. Since that time, we’ve seen no slow down. Every day we see new examples. And while the tactics and schemes may differ, one thing remains consistent: phishing attacks are bypassing secure email gateways, and gateways are not stopping the attacks.

In March 2020, Dark Reading and InformationWeek took a survey of IT and Cybersecurity professionals to understand the relationship between these two teams. They do this survey every year, so it's interesting to see how things changed between 2019 and 2020.