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Maintaining Cybersecurity During Rapid Digital Transformation

Security Boulevard

tag=Ransomware'>Ransomware</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Cyber-attacks'>Cyber-attacks</a> In the business and technology world, perhaps its main effect has been to press the accelerator on digital transformation in organizations across the globe. The evolving cyber threat landscape.

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RSAC insights: How IABs — initial access brokers — help sustain, accelerate the ransomware plague

The Last Watchdog

Related: How cybercriminals leverage digital transformation. Or the payload might be a data exfiltration routine — or a full-blown ransomware attack. Sophos’ study of adversary activity found that some 47 percent of attacks started with an exploited vulnerability and 73 percent of attacks involved ransomware.

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Cybersecurity Predictions for 2023: My Reflections

Jane Frankland

Ransomware attacks will surge again, and adversaries will lean on behavioural science and seemingly legitimate ways to trick users. As the quality of these attacks increase, victims will find it increasingly hard to determine whether they are visiting trusted websites that have not been compromised and hold malicious ransomware code.

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What if the Bible Got Deleted?! Welcome to Digital Transformation

SecureWorld News

And he had this to say regarding the benefits of the digitization process. Swaths of history, previously explored only by white-gloved historians, are now made available to anyone with a internet connection. Less Hollywood, but still concerning, is a ransomware attack on the library.

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What if the Bible got Deleted?!? Welcome to Digital Transformation

SecureWorld News

And he had this to say regarding the benefits of the digitization process. Swaths of history, previously explored only by white-gloved historians, are now made available to anyone with a internet connection. This project is about a lot more than just physical preservation. This is a huge step for educational equality.".

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Zero Trust Speeds Ransomware Response, Illumio-Bishop Fox Test Finds

eSecurity Planet

From mass production of cheap malware to ransomware as a service (RaaS) , cyber criminals have industrialized cybercrime, and a new HP Wolf Security report warns that cybercriminals are adapting advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics too. Ransomware: Breach and Attack Simulations. Full Application Ring-fencing Attack Simulation.

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MY TAKE: How ‘CAASM’ can help security teams embrace complexity – instead of trying to tame it

The Last Watchdog

The shift to software-defined everything and reliance on IT infrastructure scattered across the Internet has boosted corporate productivity rather spectacularly. But then along came digital transformation. The opportunity, going forward then, is for security to jump fully onboard the digital transformation bandwagon.