5 Mistakes That Threaten Infrastructure Cybersecurity And Resilience
Bottom line: With many IT budgets under scrutiny, cybersecurity teams are expected to do more with less, prioritizing spending that delivers the greatest ROI while avoiding the top five mistakes that threaten their infrastructures. In a rush to reduce budgets and spending, cybersecurity teams and the CISOs that lead them need to avoid the mistakes […]
Why Cybersecurity Is Really A Business Problem
Bottom Line: Absolute’s 2020 Endpoint Resilience Report illustrates why the purpose of any cybersecurity program needs to be attaining a balance between protecting an organization and the need to keep the business running, starting with secured endpoints. Enterprises who’ve taken a blank-check approach in the past to spending on cybersecurity are facing the stark reality […]
How To Improve Channel Sales With AI-Based Knowledge Sharing Networks
Bottom Line: Knowledge-sharing networks have been improving supply chain collaboration for decades; it’s time to enhance them with AI and extend them to resellers to revolutionize channel selling with more insights. The greater the accuracy and speed of supply chain-based data integration and knowledge, the greater the accuracy of custom product orders. Add to that […]
Why Securing Endpoints Is The Future Of Cybersecurity
86% of all breaches are financially motivated, where threat actors are after company financial data, intellectual property, health records, and customer identities that can be sold fast on the Dark Web. 70% of breaches are perpetrated by external actors, making endpoint security a high priority in any cybersecurity strategy. 55% of breaches originate from organized […]
How Barclays Is Preventing Fraud With AI
Bottom Line: Barclays’ and Kount’s co-developed new product, Barclays Transact reflects the future of how companies will innovate together to apply AI-based fraud prevention to the many payment challenges merchants face today. Merchant payment providers have seen the severity, scope, and speed of fraud attacks increase exponentially this year. Account takeovers, card-not-present fraud, SMS spoofing, […]
Debunking The Myth That Greater Compliance Makes IT More Secure
Bottom Line: Excelling at compliance doesn’t protect any business from being hacked, yet pursuing a continuous risk management strategy helps. With a few exceptions (such as spearphishing), cyberattacks are, by nature, brutally opportunistic and random. They are driven to disrupt operations at best and steal funds, records, and privileged access credentials at worst. Conversely, the […]
10 Ways Enterprises Are Getting Results From AI Strategies
One in 10 enterprises now use 10 or more AI applications; chatbots, process optimization, and fraud analysis lead a recent survey’s top use cases according to MMC Ventures. 83% of IT leaders say AI & ML is transforming customer engagement, and 69% say it is transforming their business according to Salesforce Research. IDC predicts spending […]
How To Build A Business Case For Endpoint Security
Bottom Line: Endpoint security business cases do much more than just quantify costs and benefits; they uncover gaps in endpoint and cyber protection that need urgent attention to avert a breach. Bad actors and hackers prefer to attack threat surfaces that are isolated, vulnerable with out-of-date security patches, yet integrated into a corporate network to […]
News Analysis: Apple Brings New Post Pandemic Solutions To Remote Learning
K-12 Education Market Faces New Requirements The latest CDC guidelines highlight the major challenges administrators and educators have for reopening schools. The general principle – the more interactions, the longer interactions, the higher the risk of #COVID-19 spread. The CDC states that the risk of COVID-19 spread increases in school settings as follows: Lowest Risk: […]
Diversity & The Future of Work — We Can No Longer Sit on the Sidelines!
Over the last 48 hours, I have watched technology CEOs, industry executives, and leading VC firms voice their outrage by the killing of George Floyd and decry racism in America. Many of their companies have made official statements and even provided financial support towards nonprofits supporting racial injustice. I admire their efforts but frankly I […]
