Trend Micro revealed that it thwarted 12.7 million potential email threats for customers leveraging cloud-based email services. In its report, “2019 Cloud App Security Roundup”, Trend Micro stated that more than 11 million of emails threats blocked last year...
The office laptop is finding its way into living rooms and bedrooms, as more organizations allow their employees to work from home. Traveling staff work out of hotel rooms, lobbies, libraries and cafés. In light of the current Coronavirus...
A study on global comparison of cybersecurity defenses ranked Australia as the world’s 15th secure country. According to security research firm Comparitech, Australia climbed 12 positions in its latest cybersecurity ranking report. The study evaluated 76 countries’ exposure to...
Facebook announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Namecheap in Arizona, a provider of domain name registrars online, for refusing to cooperate in an investigation to find malicious domains that have been registered through its services. The social...
Accenture acquired a U.K.-based cyber defense consultancy firm Context Information Security. Accenture said, the new acquisition will accelerate the growth of its cybersecurity platform Accenture Security globally, strengthen its existing portfolio, and become part of Accenture’s cyber defense offerings....
A study of 60 countries reveals that Japan is in the top five most cyber-secure country. However, increasing mobile and computer ransomware attacks targeted at Japan has seen the country dropping in this ranking. But Japan has taken a...
One of the biggest reasons for gender disparity in cybersecurity was the lack of a role model. The problem here is the fact that men make up for a majority of key commenters and high-profile influencers.
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The cybersecurity space faces an acute skills shortage, which is predicted to hit 3.5 million by 2021. This skill gap may further be exacerbated by a distinct lack of female representation. One thing that many fail to understand is...
To dive deeper into the subject of lack of women representation, Kaspersky Labs and Arlington Research conducted an online survey, titled “Beyond 11%.” This was to address the stagnant representation of women of 11% in between 2013 and 2017....
For the most part, discussions around the representation of women have stayed redundant. The Global Information Security Workforce Study from (ISC)² and its Centre for Cyber Safety and Education in 2017 revealed that women only make up 11% of...
