Over the last 12 months, organizations across the Middle East have been adapting to business disruption and embracing new working environments. Since the start of the pandemic, working from home has become much more widespread across the Middle East and the rest of the world.

HID Global is supporting theend-users and partners in choosing the right Identity and Access Management and Secure Issuance solutions to ensure a safe return to work for all employees and stakeholders.

F5 Labs’ 2021 Application Protection report shows that ransomware was a factor in about 30% percent of U.S. breaches in 2020. This trend is also playing out to varying degrees globally. When we look at the breach analyses, some of the most important controls were user account management, network segmentation, and data backup. The challenge is how to best implement them.

Attackers could pilfer user access credentials through a variety of tried and tested tactics ranging from phishing and social engineering attacks to using brute-force attacks and key logging malware. Once they get a hold of the usernames and passwords then breaching a system isn’t that difficult. CISA, therefore, recommends that switching to multi-factor authentication (MFA), which is a far safer option.

Ransomware accounted for nearly half of all incidents and was more than three times the next most common threat, according to CTIR. Transportation, utilities, health care, government, telecoms, technology, machinery, chemical and much more.