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In this episode, Kai Roer, Chief Research Officer at KnowBe4, explains how human factors will always play a role in how secure our technology is. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UDKiGLlzxhiGnd6FtvEnmStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-tripwire-cybersecurity-podcastRSS: https://tripwire.libsyn.com/rssYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgTfY3TXF9YKE9pUKp57pGSTaapTLpvC3 Cybersecurity is a vast professional field.  There is so much technology that can protect all the systems that we use on a daily basis.  All of these systems can help us to remain secure, yet, no matter how many systems are in place, we have…

The past few years have emphasized just how important cybersecurity is. As cybercrime reached record heights and more companies went digital, industries realized their current security efforts fell short. Healthcare is a prime example. The medical sector has had the second highest number of data breaches of any industry for more than five years. This became increasingly noticeable in 2019 alone, when the industry experienced 525 data breaches, up from 369 the year before. The…

Like many organizations, K-12 schools adapted to COVID-19 by accelerating their digital transformation journeys. And like everyone else who followed this path, they invited unwanted attention from digital criminals in the process. In December 2020, for instance, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint alert with the FBI and MS-ISAC warning of malicious actors targeting school computer systems to disrupt distance learning with digital threats such as ransomware. More than half…

By Bill Moore, XONA As businesses transitioned to hybrid work models in 2021, critical integrations between IT and OT technologies introduced new vulnerabilities that threat actors exploited with shocking frequency and effectiveness. This was especially true for manufacturers, energy producers, and utilities, which increasingly rely on remote operations capacity to empower distributed teams to engage physical infrastructure from anywhere in the world. As a result, many organizations experienced an ICS/OT cybersecurity incident in the past…

By Joe Noonan, General Manager, Unitrends and Spanning Cybercrime and hybrid work environments prompted by the pandemic have significantly impacted the way organizations protect and store their data. Data is living in multiple places, and backups now must protect data centers, endpoints, multiple clouds and SaaS. More than ever, IT professionals need to incorporate unified business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans into their cyber resilience strategy to protect the organizations they serve. Cyber resilience…