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(ISC)² Supports NIST Encouragement of Inclusive Cybersecurity Terminology

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Commonly used cybersecurity terms such as “blacklisting” and “whitelisting” may be discontinued if the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) efforts are successful. The agency wants to eliminate terms with problematic connotations from speech and written documents and replace them with neutral, more precise wording.

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The Cybersecurity Perception Problem in 2023

Approachable Cyber Threats

The 2023 update to our research on the perception of cybersecurity incident and data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk of a cybersecurity incident or data breach instead of what feels right. So what’s new this year, what was our methodology, and what was surprising? Keep reading below! Or download now!

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The Data Breach Perception Problem in 2022

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DBIR incident and breach classification patterns are based on clustering of data as opposed to how the cybersecurity industry tends to group them when we talk about data breaches and incidents. When we thought about the data last year, it felt like hackers and ransomware should have been at the top (these fall under System Intrusion ).

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What Really Caused Data Breaches in 2020?

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DBIR incident and breach classification patterns are based on clustering of data as opposed to how industry tends to group them when we talk about cybersecurity. When we thought about 2020, it felt like hackers and ransomware should have been at the top (these fall under system intrusion). But that isn’t what Verizon’s data showed.

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The Cybersecurity Perception Problem in 2023

Approachable Cyber Threats

Let us know what you think on social media! The 2023 update to our research on the perception of cybersecurity incident and data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk of a cybersecurity incident or data breach instead of what feels right. Keep reading below! Or download now! What do these categories mean?”

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The Data Breach Perception Problem in 2022

Approachable Cyber Threats

DBIR incident and breach classification patterns are based on clustering of data as opposed to how the cybersecurity industry tends to group them when we talk about data breaches and incidents. When we thought about the data last year, it felt like hackers and ransomware should have been at the top (these fall under System Intrusion ).

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Phishing-resistant MFA 101: What you need to know

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To give you a complete picture, I have identified key terminology and concepts surrounding phishing-resistant authentication and put them together in this handy glossary. To give you a complete picture, I have identified key terminology and concepts surrounding phishing-resistant authentication and put them together in this handy glossary.

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