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Author Q&A: Former privacy officer urges leaders to prioritize security as part of cloud migration

The Last Watchdog

LW: Catastrophic infrastructure and supply chain breaches, not to mention spy balloons and Tik Tok exploits, have grabbed regulators’ attention. A company may have thousands of employees, but it only takes one phished employee for cybercriminals to bring the network to its knees. How does your main theme of tie in?

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Ponemon Institute: Cost of Data Breach Hits Record High

SecureWorld News

Ask yourself: if my organization suffers a data breach as the result of a cyberattack, what will it actually cost? New Ponemon Institute research reveals that the average cost of a data breach is higher than ever before. Key findings from Ponemon IBM Cost of a Data Breach report. million), then phishing ($4.65

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Top Cloud Security Issues: Threats, Risks, Challenges & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Malware in Cloud Storage Buckets Malware threatens cloud storage buckets due to misconfigurations, infected data, and phishing. 4 Top Cloud Security Risks A cloud security risk is a combination of the possibility of a threat arising and the system’s vulnerability.

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The State of Cloud and Cloud Security in 2020

SecureWorld News

Not everyone would describe cloud security as "very exciting," however, the four expert panelists who joined us on our series of SecureWorld Remote Sessions for a Q&A hour all certainly shared this sentiment. The panelists spoke on cloud migration, the state of the cloud during the pandemic, the DevOps pipeline, and more.

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How Banks Can Enhance Security of Office 365 and G Suite

Spinone

Key Factors Driving Migration of Banks and Financial Institutions to the Cloud There are many cloud migration factors in today’s business and customer landscape that are the driving force behind today’s financial institutions deciding to embrace cloud as a major part of their infrastructure.

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2023 prediction: Security workforce shortage will lead to nationally significant cyberattack

Malwarebytes

But with the average cost of a US data breach at $9.44 Top threats against SMBs include phishing, credential theft, and ransomware, the latter of which can render a small business bankrupt if not properly thwarted. A recent Gartner survey of CIOs revealed that two-thirds plan to increase cyber spending this year.

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Cloud Security Checklist

Spinone

While the cloud has matured greatly and public cloud vendors have drastically improved security measures , technologies, services, and the overall security infrastructure, cloud security is certainly still one of the major concerns with cloud infrastructure of all types.

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