Six challenges today’s CISOs face when protecting corporate identities

The rise of the Internet of Things has led to an explosion in machine accounts. And the Arab Gulf’s pioneering adoption of 5G suggests that IoT use cases will soon increase in number. This leads regional organizations into a new hornet’s nest of identity problems. The accounts for things like services and application pools are not identities.

Proofpoint report details how cyber criminals got creative in 2021

Proofpoint, Inc., a cybersecurity and compliance company, has released its annual Human Factor report, which provides a comprehensive examination of the three main facets of user risk—vulnerability, attacks, and privilege.

Tanium introduces free comprehensive risk assessment

Tanium has announced a new five-day risk assessment that provides a holistic and quantifiable enterprise-wide view of an organization’s risk posture.

Nearly half of UAE CISOs say they are unprepared for a cyberattack

Proofpoint, Inc., a cybersecurity and compliance firm, released its annual Voice of the CISO report, which examines the key challenges that chief information security officers face (CISOs).

Cybercriminals increasingly targeting financial industry, reveals VMware

The report also discovered that once cybercriminals gain access to a financial organization, they are no longer looking for wire transfers or capital, as was previously assumed. Cybercriminal cartels are now looking for non-public market data such as earnings estimates, public offerings, and significant transactions. In fact, two out of every three (66 percent) financial institutions were subjected to attacks aimed at market strategies.