The Brief

“Defenders are adapting slower than attackers, so it’s more important than ever that organisations look to understand how areas at risk could be infiltrated from an attacker’s perspective”

Guy Golan

CEO, Performanta

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BY THE NUMBERS

Odavesa’s State of SaaS Ransomware Attack Preparedness report:

59% 28%

of enterprises don’t protect all of their data in public infrastructure clouds

of organisations are “very” confident about their ability to recover after a cloud or SaaS ransomware attack

“Organisations are still taking hours, or even days or months, to remediate threats”

Nikesh Arora

CEO and chairman, Palo Alto

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“The last year marked a significant turning point in the adoption of DevOps tools, platforms, and processes”

David DeSanto

VP of Product, GitLab

READ MORE EMBRACING AUTOMATION TO PROTECT AGAINST THREATS Addressing the rise of automation in tackling cybersecurity and the US’ approach to embed it.

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PAYMENT SECURITY: BALANCING THE NEED FOR SECURITY AND CONVENIENCE We explore the changing face of payment security as the world becomes more digital than ever before.

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PROTECTING COMPANY DATA STARTS WITHIN Technology industry professionals weigh in on how companies can best protect themselves from insider threats.

WHAT IS BEHAVIOURAL ANALYTICS?

ThreatFabric recently announced it has extended its Fraud Risk Suite with advanced behavioural analytics, to safeguard customers’ online experience against social engineering attacks such as voice scams.

Behavioral analytics is an approach that enables us to distinguish between cybercriminals and genuine customers, by understanding a customer's interaction with their digital devices (i.e swipe/touch gestures on a smartphone), that directly relate to their cognitive behavior such as doubt represented by for example their typing rhythm (speed).

In 2021, more than £1.3bn was stolen by scammers through authorised push payment fraud (APP), however this problem is solvable with the proper fraud detection/protection tools.  NAVAL INFORMATION

WARFARE SYSTEMS

COMMAND (NAVWAR)

NAVWAR is celebrating 25 years in San Diego, serving as one of the Navy’s major acquisition commands with an expertise in cyber and information technology, providing a substantial positive impact to the region’s economy year after year.NAVWAR brings US$3.2bn in revenue to the area and employs more than 5,200 federal employees while supporting more than 29,000 jobs.

 UBER UK Police have arrested a 17-year-old on suspicion of hacking. The department said the arrest was made as part of an investigation in partnership with the U.K. National Crime Agency’s cybercrime unit.

 LOS ANGELES UNIFIED

SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Vice Society Ransomware gang published data and documents that were stolen from the Los Angeles Unified School District during a cyberattack. District said that they would not be giving in to the ransom demands and that they could better use the money for students and their education.

 CHINA New research has revealed that China is the top country most affected by online crime in the world - losing US$118.4bn to cybercrime each year. The research, undertaken by SEON, looked at the cost of online crime in the top victim countries.