While it is advised that ransomware victims never pay their attackers, many businesses and even governments still do, which is why two state senators from New York have proposed bills banning local municipalities and governments from using taxpayer money to pay ransomware demands. Republican Senator Phil Boyle proposed the first

There are currently four key market forces impacting the cyber-market – increasing scrutiny by regulators, an explosion in security tools, a bigger attack surface and scarcer security personnel. According to (ISC)2, the global IT security skills shortages has now surpassed four million and the global security workforce needs to increase

Critical attacks and massive breaches escalated dramatically in 2019 and it is predicted that by the year 2020, costs related to damage caused by cybersecurity breaches may reach $5 trillion. As attacks increase cybersecurity teams are overworked, understaffed, and are grasping for solutions to solve an increasing amount of problems.

For too long, the sole emphasis of security vendors in the cybersecurity industry has been on detection. Once the attack has been reported to the end user, it seems the job is done. The next steps—the complex task of investigating and actually solving the problem—then lie with the security operations

Cybersecurity professionals see some threat actors or outside-parties as the enemy. However, challenging this mindset is important; you can better protect your organisation against outside-parties if you understand how they think and operate. With this in mind, businesses around the globe have turned to hackers to test security infrastructure and