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Proofpoint examines over 2.2 billion emails, 35 billion URLs, 200 million attachments, and 35 million cloud accounts per day. This report is based on the team of expert threat analysts' review of that data of 2020.

Bad actors are taking advantage of the chaotic nature of these times, by launching coronavirus-themed cyber-attacks and impersonating well-known websites that try to provide useful, timely information for the general public. Indeed, COVID-19 has become the subject of choice for phishing and spear-phishing campaigns that seek to take advantage of the heightened level of fear and concern.

"History will look back and declare how well the cybersecurity industry succeeded in putting collaboration above the competition to help protect our organizations and institutions," said Gorka Sadowski, of the XDR Alliance.

Compromising the telecommunications providers enables the attackers to access and monitor communications without the need to directly hack or compromise the individual targets. Researchers found the attacks to be very adaptive, persistent, and evasive. Attackers worked diligently to hide their activity and maintain persistence on compromised systems—even responding in real-time to mitigation attempts and working to evade security efforts.

In the fight against known and unknown threats, SonicWall’s patented Real-Time Deep Memory InspectionTM (RTDMI) identified record numbers of never-before-seen malware, posting a 54% year-to-date increase over the first half of 2020.

For a Special Feature on ‘Bridging The Gap Between Technology And Business,' Rabab Zehra, Executive Editor of TECHx Media, sat down with Mohamed Abdallah, Regional Director, Middle East, Turkey, and Africa at SonicWall, to learn more about the role SonicWall plays in empowering businesses during the ongoing wave of digital transformation.

To address security personnel shortages and an industry need for more curated and data-driven threat intelligence, ThreatQuotient recently announced two new capabilities built into the ThreatQ platform, ThreatQ TDR Orchestrator and ThreatQ Data Exchange.

Artificial intelligence (AI) methods and techniques are being integrated into products in many security market segments, potentially making this technology, in aggregate, the largest impact on attack detection development for the next five to eight years.

Schneider Electric and AVEVA are providing the tools required by organizations to make informed decisions that will empower people across the mining, minerals, and metals value chains to be more strategic in their choices based on sound advice with sustainability in mind. They are assisting operators and managers in these choices also to tackle challenges associated with adopting sustainable practices.

Braintrace’s NDR technology is a key component for defending against cyberattacks today and in the future. Sophos research demonstrates how adversaries aggressively and constantly change tactics to evade detection and execute their attacks.