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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging DevSecOps to quell cyber risks in a teeming threat landscape

The Last Watchdog

In today’s digital landscape, organizations face numerous challenges when it comes to mitigating cyber risks. Related: How AI is transforming DevOps The constant evolution of technology, increased connectivity, and sophisticated cyber threats pose significant challenges to organizations of all sizes and industries.

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Security Awareness Research: We Think We're Too Smart to Fall for Phishing

SecureWorld News

The latest risk for increased phishing attacks? Security awareness study: how do end-users view cyber risks? First, they showed subjects email phishing scams. They also told the subjects that the emails were examples of phishing. According to research from New York University, it's hubris.

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GUEST ESSAY: A breakdown of the cyber risks intrinsic to ubiquitous social media apps

Security Boulevard

Related: Deploying human sensors to stop phishing. The post GUEST ESSAY: A breakdown of the cyber risks intrinsic to ubiquitous social media apps appeared first on Security Boulevard. More than half of the world—58.4 percent or 4.62 billion people—use social media.

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7 Insights About Managing Cyber Risk You Can’t Afford To Miss

Jane Frankland

That could be through common hacking techniques like phishing, bait and switch, cookie theft, deep fake , password cracking , social engineering , and so on. Whilst managing cyber risk does require you to use risk management standards and frameworks, it’s not a case of using one over another. But know this.

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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Security Awareness Training and Human Risk Management Company AwareGO Achieves Year of Outstanding Growth

CyberSecurity Insiders

SAN ANTONIO–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Security Awareness Training and Human Risk Management company AwareGO today announced company milestones achieved and overall performance for 2021, including record year-over-year online revenue growth of 219%, enterprise revenue growth of 156%, and total revenue growth of 116%.

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Strong medical device security awareness stifled by inventory, knowledge gaps

SC Magazine

This creates a major gap in security awareness, considering the 65,000 ransomware attacks deployed in the U.S. in the last year and the continued rise in cyber events. However, those are symptoms of health care’s security posture, not the cause. Ransomware isn’t the problem: it’s a result of the issue.”. “The