As the coronavirus pandemic accelerated the migration to the cloud, the identity and access management (IAM) tools companies used also had to change during this digital transformation, said Bob West, chief compliance officer for they payment app Metal.
Many of the cyber professionals who submitted predictions for the upcoming year seem to think that the threat posed by groups infiltrating organizations’ systems and encrypting their data for a handsome ransom will continue to be one of the top threats in 2022.
Threat actors are able to continue to use their same methods to victimize other organizations when entities choose to keep quiet about a cyber incident, warned the assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division.
The New Jersey Attorney General Office reached its third settlement over a healthcare data breach in recent months: Regional Cancer Care will pay a fine and bolster its cybersecurity.
New federal regulations designed to constrain the sale of surveillance tools and “intrusion software” abroad are drawing confusion from private sector companies, with some claiming they are overly complex, may inhibit some forms of proactive threat hunting and will cost more to implement than the government estimates.
