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Security: Risk from Insider Threats Continue to Grow

By Dick Weisinger

Insider threats are malicious activities that originate from people within an organization that have direct access to software and hardware systems, like current employees, former employees, contractors and business associates. Remote work and greater use of company-external tools like messaging

Risk and Security Management Trends: Cybersecurity in 2021

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner has named the top eight trends in cybersecurity for 2021. They are as follows: Cybersecurity Mesh – Centrally manage and orchestrate the policies and functions of security services across the organization and even now outside the traditional enterprise perimeter.

Security: The Hidden Costs of CyberCrime

By Dick Weisinger

Cybercrime comes with a global cost of more than $1 trillion dollars, up 50 percent from 2018, according to data from McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Steve Grobman, SVP and CTO at McAfee, said that “the

Ransomware: Hackers Strike at US Business and Infrastructure

By Dick Weisinger

Malware that attacks a computer’s data by maliciously encrypting it and preventing the user from accessing it until the user first pays a fee is called ransomware. 2021 is looking to be the year of Ransomware as the number of

Data Security: Trends in 2021

By Dick Weisinger

Working from home. Ransomeware. Frequent breaches. IT security teams are feeling stress as they try to keep data secure. Yassir Abousselham, CIO of Splunk, told Forbes that “we have to deliver the same level of security protection to employees and