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Sophos, a global provider of next-generation cybersecurity, has released the "Active Adversary Playbook 2022," which details attacker behaviors observed in the wild by Sophos' Rapid Response team in 2021.

New research commissioned by Cohesity, a provider of next-gen data management, reveals that while most IT and security operations (SecOps) decision-makers believe they should jointly share the responsibility.

More healthcare organizations (78%) are now opting for cyber insurance, but 93% of healthcare organizations with insurance coverage report that getting policy coverage has become more difficult in the last year. With ransomware being the single most common cause of insurance claims, 51% of respondents reported that the level of cybersecurity required to qualify is higher.

A recent Information Age article further claims that the time is right for passwordless authentication, as “passwordless authentication makes users’ lives easier” and removes the human factor from cybersecurity — where “people just can’t be trusted to set reliable passwords, to change them frequently, to make sure they are strong, and to keep them secure.”

The scale of the threat landscape is staggering. How long did it take you to read to this point? Compare that to the estimate that every 40 seconds, somewhere in the world, a cyberattack occurs. For the region’s security leaders, it is difficult to shake off the feeling that such an attack could happen to their organization tomorrow.

According to ESET telemetry, Lazarus targeted companies in Europe (France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Ukraine) and Latin America in the relevant 2021-2022 attacks (Brazil).

The study, Bridging the Disability Gap: An Opportunity to Make a Positive Impact, reveals that for people with disabilities, digital inclusion is the path to financial inclusion. Governments' adoption and prioritization of policies to improve service accessibility paves the way for public and private sector financial institutions, mobile network operators (MNO), fintech providers, and other organizations to develop and implement solutions.

According to a 2021 survey by PwC, cybersecurity is a growing concern for organizations, with approximately 43% of Middle East CEOs planning to increase investments in cybersecurity and data privacy by 10% or more over the next three years. Moreover, 41% of these leaders think that their organization should be doing more to measure cybersecurity.

The course, led by Abed Samhuri, Cyber Institute Lead at Axon Technologies, is open to all who want to advance their network security skills and validate their industry knowledge.

MFA, an acronym for Multi-Factor Authentication, is considered one of the strongest methods of authentication. Microsoft estimates that MFA defeats 99% of authentication based attacks. While not fool-proof, MFA is one of the most effective steps organizations can take to dramatically reduce the risk of a breach. At its simplest level, MFA is multiple levels of authentication.