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Yesterday, Lookout, Inc. announced Lookout China Connect, an extension of the Lookout Cloud Security Platform operating in mainland China. Lookout China Connect simplifies connectivity for remote workers in mainland China without the complexity of a private network, all while complying with China’s legal and regulatory requirements. Global enterprises operating in mainland China must provide local workers with the same application access, security and overall user experience as employees elsewhere. But providing consistent connectivity isn’t easy in...

Most successful breaches involve stolen or compromised credentials that are used to escalate privileges and move laterally across a network, something which privileged access management (PAM) offerings are ideally suited to protect against. Keeper Security, the leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software protecting passwords, secrets and connections, highlights S&P Market Intelligence data showing that just 43% of SMBs have deployed PAM, compared to other leading security technologies like network, email and endpoint security...

Eskenzi PR has today opened nominations for its eighth annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards. The awards are all about celebrating the UK’s cybersecurity professionals, teachers, lecturers, leaders and those working to make the industry not only more secure, but also more diverse and healthier for employees. Key sponsors include KnowBe4 and Decipher Cyber, as well as Bora and the Zensory.    Whether educating the next generation of cyber talent or the public, fighting cybercrime...

Cato Networks, provider of the world’s leading single-vendor SASE platform, addressed mounting security concerns posed by insider threats. Over the past two years, incidents related to insider threats have grown 44%, according to the Ponemon Institute,1 with the cost per incident reaching $15.8 million. Essential to stopping insider threats is first ensuring users and IT administrators only have access to the necessary resources. To those ends, Cato became the first to extend ZTNA to users...

One of the largest healthcare providers in the US, HCA confirmed the breach on Monday 10 July. The data was taken from an external storage location exclusively used to automate the formatting of email messages. Taken from its statement, HCA confirmed that the stolen list contains information used for email messages, such as reminders that patients may wish to schedule an appointment and education on healthcare programs and services. It also confirmed the information taken...

I don’t typically like awards; let’s be honest, more often than not, they’re pay to play – and most of us see them for what they are!   It begs the question; how come we ended up running an award that literally makes no money and takes a huge amount of time to organise for the heroes that work for me - Beth Smith and Nicole Sigrist?   It’s because there have never been any...

Six years have passed since the infamous NotPetya cyber attack sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity landscape. Initially disguised as ransomware, NotPetya quickly revealed its true destructive nature, spreading damage to businesses and governments around the world, resulting in billions of dollars in losses. Six years later, the impact of the NotPetya attack is still being felt, and the lessons learned from this incident continue to shape the way we approach cybersecurity. Tom Gol, CTO for...

Cato Networks, provider of the world's leading single-vendor SASE platform, introduced today real-time, deep learning algorithms for threat prevention as part of Cato IPS. The algorithms leverage Cato's unique cloud-native platform and vast data lake to provide highly accurate identification of malicious domains, which are often used in phishing and ransomware attacks. In testing, the deep learning algorithms identified nearly six times more malicious domains than reputation feeds alone. Cato’s Security Research Manager, Avidan Avraham, and...

New research has found over 1 in 3 UK&I workers are likely to click a phishing link, according to KnowBe4's 2023 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report. The report measures an organisation's Phish-prone™ Percentage (PPP), which shows the likelihood employees will be duped by phishing or a social engineering scam. The overall baseline for 2023, which tested an employee's susceptibility to an initial baseline simulated phishing security test rose 5.2% from 30% in 2022, with the...