For the love of humanity, please stop playing into ransomware groups' hands by treating their data leak blogs as reliable sources of information and then using them to build lists of who's amassed the most victims. That's not what data leak sites actually document.
Cyera is raising between $150 million and $200 million in a new funding round that would value the Silicon Valley-based data security startup at as much as $1.55 billion. The funding talks come just nine months after Cyera closed a $100 million Series B round at a reported $500 million valuation.
A robust onboarding program is a comprehensive process that integrates new hires into the organizational culture, aligns them with company values and equips them with the necessary skills and knowledge to perform their roles effectively. Onboarding affects organizational culture and turnover rates.
The New York-based cloud security phenom is speaking with several investors include Thrive, Lightspeed Venture Partners, G Squared, Sequoia and Cyberstarts in hope of raising roughly $800 million at a valuation of more than $10 billion. The cash infusion would help Wiz finance future acquisitions.
As ransomware groups are causing massive damage and disruption and showing no signs of stopping, cybersecurity policy expert Ciaran Martin said it's time for governments to start asking tough questions and "figure out how to make a ransomware payments ban work."
As the fallout continues in the Change Healthcare IT outage, the U.S. healthcare ecosystem is anticipating the next bombs to drop in what's shaping up to be the worst cyberattack the sector has experienced so far. What should entities be considering as they push forward in the recovery?
Is Moscow using the Russian-speaking LockBit ransomware group as a tool to disrupt critical infrastructure and democracy in the West? While no publicly available evidence reveals direct ties, what are the chances that the prolific, trash-talking group has escaped authorities' attention - or demands?
Microsoft once again finds itself in the crosshairs of antitrust regulators, this time for practices around its Entra ID identity management tool. The European Commission is probing whether Microsoft prevents customers from buying security software that competes with its own, The Information said.
Carbon Black won't be getting a new residence anytime soon after indications of interest in the organization fell short of Broadcom's expectations. The semiconductor giant had been looking to fetch $1 billion for the security firm - including debt - but offers at that dollar figure remained elusive.
Once the dust settles on the LockBit disruption, what will be the state of ransomware? Expect attackers to continue refining their tactics for maximizing profits via a grab bag of complementary strategies, including crypto-locking shakedowns and data-theft extortion.
Blue Monday arrived late this year for the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service group, after an international coalition of law enforcement agencies seized swaths of its infrastructure. Security experts said even if the down-at-the-heels group reboots, the disruption already stands as a big win.
Protecting our identities is extremely important. An identity fabric is a robust identity control framework, but before you can roll one out, you need to understand all aspects of the IAM life cycle, assess all the areas of risk and make sure that remediation controls are in place.
The AI industry is exploding with demand for talent that can navigate the maze of machine learning, data analytics and neural networks. But what does this mean for the average IT person looking for a job? Steve King of CyberEd.io discusses finding work in the AI field.
Beyond the hype, AI is transforming cybersecurity by automating threat detection, streamlining incident response and predicting attacker behaviors. Organizations are increasingly deploying AI to protect their data, stay ahead of cybercriminals and build more resilient security systems.
Breathless reports claim 3 million IoT toothbrushes have been remotely compromised and used to target unsuspecting businesses via distributed denial-of-service attacks. Just one problem: This story has more holes in it than the teeth of kid with a 10-pack-a-day Gummy Bear habit.
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