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One breach of digital trust can cause devastating reputational, regulatory and financial repercussions, according to ISACA’s State of Digital Trust 2022 survey findings. As enterprises worldwide compete in the race for digital transformation, a new study finds significant gaps between what they are doing now and what they should do to establish leadership and earn customer trust in the future digital ecosystem. Must-read security coverage The State of Digital Trust 2022 research report from ISACA…

Like any other retailer, grocery stores want to build trust with their customers and keep them coming back. But the average bill and already slender margins in grocery can make it challenging to create a loyalty program that provides sufficiently compelling rewards. Nevertheless, it’s worth the effort, given that loyalty programs are a powerful incentive for grocery shoppers. In the US, for example, more than 60% of grocery store loyalty program members say that the…

  Today was the final day of the 2022 North America Community Meeting. Lindsay Goodspeed, Senior Manager of Corporate Communications, sits down to provide a recap of the day. Highlights from the conversation include: Keynote speaker Confidence Staveley of CyberSafe Foundation discusses the importance of diversity within the security industry. Kandyce Young, Standards Manager at PCI SSC, discusses PCI DSS v4.0 and where stakeholders can find supporting resources to help drive their understanding of the…

IntroductionSince its inception decades ago, the primary objective of business intelligence has been the creation of a top-down single source of truth from which organizations would centrally track KPIs and performance metrics with static reports and dashboards. This stemmed from the proliferation of data in spreadsheets and reporting silos throughout organizations, often yielding different and conflicting results. With this new mandate, BI-focused teams were formed, often in IT departments, and they began to approach the…

Several global cybersecurity agencies publish a joint advisory detailing efforts by Iranian-government sponsored threat actors exploiting vulnerabilities to enable ransomware attacks. Background On September 14, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency along with the National Security Agency, U.S. Cyber Command, Cyber National Mission Force, the Department of the Treasury, the Australian Cybersecurity Centre, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, and the U.K’s National Cyber Security Centre published a joint cybersecurity advisory (AA22-257A) detailing malicious activity…

The threat actor known as Webworm has been linked to several Windows–based remote access Trojans, suggests a new advisory by Symantec, a subsidiary of Broadcom Software. The group reportedly developed customized versions of three older remote access Trojans (RATs): Trochilus, Gh0st RAT and 9002 RAT.  The first of these tools, first spotted in 2005, is a RAT implemented in C++, and its source code is available for download on GitHub. Gh0st, on the other hand, was…