Independent Study: IT security leaders lean on external support for most aspects of threat intelligence

Quicker detection driving demand for external vendor threat intelligence solutions finds Kaspersky

According to a commissioned survey conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Kaspersky, IT security leaders seeking to boost internal threat intelligence programs would prefer to delegate five out of eight major TI ...

Sean Gallagher, senior threat researcher at Sophos.

Conti, Karma threat actors simultaneously target and exfiltrate healthcare provider reports Sophos

Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, released findings of a dual ransomware attack where extortion notes left by Karma ransomware operators were encrypted 24 hours later by Conti, another ransomware ...

Avaya Study Finds Half Of MENA Businesses Deliver A ‘Good’ Total Experience

Only 43% MENA businesses say they offer good Customer Experience finds Avaya

Avaya announced results of an online market research survey conducted by IDG Communications, indicating that just over half of businesses in the Middle East and North Africa believe they offer a “good” Total Experience. ...

According to Truly Secure, 58% of breaches occur due to the lack of security implementation

According to Truly Secure, 58% of breaches occur due to the lack of security implementation

Introducing Truly Secure, the next-generation IT service provider for digital transformation, encouraging companies to take action to protect the security within their business’s technological environment. Founded in the...

Fady Younes, Cybersecurity Director - Cisco Middle East and Africa.

Cisco’s 2022 Data Privacy Benchmark Study finds privacy is mission-critical with ROI of 1.8

Cisco published its 2022 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, an annual global review of privacy corporate practices, on the impact of privacy on organizations and their views towards data privacy. The 2022 report found that pr...

Nozomi Networks Co-founder and CTO Moreno Carullo.

Security organisations are punching back, says Nozomi Networks’ Moreno Carullo in latest report

A new OT-IoT security trends report from Nozomi Networks Labs finds that while ransomware and Ransomware as a Service attacks continued to dominate cybercriminal activity in the second half of 2021, there was a slight up...

Peter Firstbrook, research vice president at Gartner.

Security leaders must address seven trends to protect their digital footprint says Gartner

Security and risk management leaders must address seven top trends to protect the ever-expanding digital footprint of modern organizations against new and emerging threats in 2022 and beyond, according to Gartner, Inc. “...

Selina Bieber, General Manager, Turkey and MENA, GoDaddy.

50%+ UAE businesses to enhance online presence and sales activity in 2022 finds GoDaddy

Overall outlook for a post-COVID period is positive 65% of UAE entrepreneurs surveyed believe they will emerge stronger than before GoDaddy announced results of its MENA Survey 2021 where nearly half of UAE businesses su...

Kim Grauer, Director of Research at Chainalysis.

Cryptocurrency laundered by cybercriminals increased 30% YoY reaching $8.6B finds Chainalysis

Following significant growth of both legitimate and illicit cryptocurrency activity in 2021, new research by Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, has revealed that the amount of cryptocurrency laundered by cybercri...

Mena Migally, Regional Vice President, META at Riverbed.

Slow running systems impacting employee job satisfaction in financial services finds Riverbed Aternity

Riverbed | Aternity unveils that nearly half (42%) of all IT decision makers (ITDMs) and 38% of business decision makers (BDMs) in the Financial Services sector believe that over 50% of their workforce will remain hybrid...