Proofpoint, a cybersecurity and compliance company, has released “The 2022 Social Engineering Report,” which examines key trends and techniques of socially engineered cyber threats observed in the previous year.

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, the Sustainability Accountability Standards Board (SASB) Standards, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are all mentioned in Fortinet’s Sustainability Report (UN SDGs).

As the world faces a wave of unprecedented cyber-attacks on the websites of governments, businesses, and individuals, ransomware has emerged, with some businesses, and even countries, suffering massive losses as a result.

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.

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.”