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New research conducted by e2e-assure indicates that a significant proportion of mid-sized companies, approximately 59%, express diminished confidence in their ability to detect cyber threats. This contrasts with just over half of enterprises, where 52% share this concern. Ensuring robust protection against cyber threats has become an urgent imperative for companies, given the escalating challenges posed by ransomware attacks. E2e-assure's research reveals that a substantial majority, 75%, of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and key...

Cato Networks announced today that Eyal Webber-Zvik, Cato’s vice president of product marketing and strategic alliances, will be speaking at the upcoming Gartner IT Symposium in Barcelona (6 – 9 November 2023). His talk, “IT Teams Collaboration on SASE Projects - What Drives the Best Outcome,” will share practical tips when evaluating and deploying SASE platforms based on insights from eight years of experience deploying SASE across more than 2,000 enterprise customers. “Times have changed...

Today, API security company Salt Security released new threat research from Salt Labs highlighting API security vulnerabilities uncovered in the social sign-in and Open Authentication (OAuth) implementations of multiple online companies, including Grammarly, Vidio, and Bukalapak. The flaws, which have since been remediated, could have allowed for credential leakage and enabled full account takeover (ATO). Salt Labs also reported that 1000s of other websites using social sign-in mechanisms are likely vulnerable to the same type of attack, putting...

The UK government’s Frontier AI Taskforce is establishing an AI safety research team that can research and evaluate risks associated with advanced AI development. As set out in its first progress report on 7th September this year, the taskforce is working with various leading tech organisations, including RAND, ARC Evals, and Trail of Bits. Since then, the taskforce has also partnered with another three leading technical organisations: Advai, Gryphon Scientific and Faculty AI. These new contracts will tackle important questions about how AI can improve human capabilities...

ABSG Consulting Inc. a leading global operational risk management company, and Dragos Inc., the global leader in cybersecurity for industrial controls systems, today announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to provide industry-leading operational technology (OT) cybersecurity solutions, services and training to federal and commercial organisations. This strategic partnership will build on the companies’ existing work together, further integrating Dragos’ world-class OT cybersecurity technology with ABS Consulting’s award-winning OT risk management expertise to address the...

Today, Cato Networks announced the findings of its 2023 SASE Adoption Survey. The survey of 1,694 IT leaders worldwide finds that management expects networking and security teams to work closer together, if not outright converge. Further survey observations shed light on SASE adoption, distribution of applications in the cloud and on-premises, the persistence of hybrid work, and how IT is evolving to address modern infrastructure challenges. "The convergence of networking and security teams in organisations is no...

Adarma has released a groundbreaking report titled "A False Sense of Cybersecurity: How a False Sense of Security Can Harm Your Business." This comprehensive study delves into essential aspects of security operations (SecOps), such as confidence levels, the proliferation of security tools, the integration of artificial intelligence, and the overall effectiveness and well-being of security teams. Drawing from a survey conducted with 500 cybersecurity professionals working in UK organisations with over 2000 employees, Adarma has...

Keeping on top of new threats is the biggest cyber security challenge facing small and mid-sized businesses globally (SMBs) – and more than half are calling for help to manage the risks, new global research by Sage reveals today. UK SMBs are particularly struggling with cyber security preparedness with 57% asking for more support with education and training and 45% not understanding what security is needed for their business. The leader in accounting, financial, HR...

Passwordless authentication methods have been widely spoken about across the cybersecurity and tech industry for years. Offering both hope and fear, a passwordless future has felt imminent for some time. However, an S&P Market Intelligence report report released this week by Keeper Security released a S&P Market Intelligence report has demonstrated that username-password combinations are still the most widely deployed form of authentication deployed in organisations (58%). The next most popular forms of authentication are mobile...

Synopsys has announced the publication of its “Global State of DevSecOps 2023” report examining the strategies, tools, and practices impacting software security. The new report from the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center is based on a survey conducted by Censuswide polling more than 1,000 IT professionals across the world – including developers, application security professionals, DevOps engineers and CISOs, as well as experts in technology, cybersecurity, and software development. Over 80% of survey respondents indicated that a...