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Written by Deborah Watson Dec 17, 2021 | FEDSCOOP Deborah Watson is the Resident CISO at Proofpoint with over 20 years’ experience in security. Federal agencies continue to evolve their IT infrastructure to include more cloud capabilities, mobile devices and remote connections. But in the push toward improving the hybrid IT environment, organizations may be falling behind in their ability to mitigate security risks from inside their networks, especially to understand how employees and contractors…

Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) these days must worry about what horrors await them each day as they log into their networks. Unfortunately, hackers are targeting the basic applications that many SMBs rely on, making third-party risk, ransomware and the latest bugs like Apache Log4j all risks that small businesses have had to become a lot more familiar with. “At the beginning of 2020, office documents accounted for only 20% of all malware downloads and…

When only the utmost privacy will do for the messages you exchange by e-mail, you need a service that protects them entirely, but many additional privacy and security features are a big help. Image: maxkabakov, Getty Images/iStockphoto Hackers just keep becoming more and more successful. If you cherish your privacy and security and are looking for an alternative to something like ProtonMail, then the CTemplar End-to-End Encrypted Email Prime Plan: Lifetime Subscription should be exactly…

You don’t need to go back to school or have any tech background whatsoever. You can switch to a tech career after just one of these self-paced courses. Image: Virgiliu Obada/Shutterstock Make 2022 the year you switch to a highly-paid tech career. The 2022 Masters in Cyber Security Certification Bundle has everything a total beginner needs, not only the skills but also how to pass certification exams and ace job interviews. And it’s available right…

The pandemic’s pause on commuting put a temporary end to a second ire for many workers: parking. But parking service provider ParkMobile didn’t idle as commuters worked from home through those early months of COVID-19, instead making use of the downtime its business experienced to accelerate its digital transformation to a cloud-native infrastructure in the most cost-effective way possible. The Atlanta-based company, which started its digital transformation in 2018, began moving its assets from an…

Critical infrastructure (CNI) providers must act now to protect their IT systems from attacks during the holiday season, the US government has warned. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a new alert demanding a more proactive stance “in light of persistent and ongoing cyber-threats.” It urged organizations to ensure they have sufficient staff to monitor IT and OT systems over the holidays continuously and that they stay informed of the latest threats by signing up…

Meta has removed seven “surveillance-for-hire” companies from its platform to target blameless victims in over 100 countries around the world. Facebook’s parent company revealed in a report published yesterday that the seven companies are based in China, Israel, India and North Macedonia. Their services are said to have targeted an estimated 50,000 victims, including journalists, dissidents, critics of authoritarian regimes, families of opposition and human rights activists. Four entities are based in Israel: Cobwebs Technologies, Cognyte, Black…

Attacks on UK firms surged five-fold during the pandemic and now cost way more than the global average, according to Accenture. The global consultancy polled 500 UK executives to compile its State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2021 study. It found that large organizations experienced 885 attempted cyber-attacks in 2020 – up from 156 the previous year and more than triple the global average of 270. They’re also more expensive than elsewhere. Accenture calculated that incidents and breaches cost…