Top news of the week: 02.02.2021.
Companies And Services
Ransomware: Should Governments Hack Cybercrime Cartels?
With ransomware continuing to fuel a massive surge in illicit profits, some experts have been calling on governments to launch offensive hacking teams to target
Threat intel is a game changer, if only firms can figure out how to bake it into cyber programs
Despite increased perceptions about the value of cyber threat intelligence, many businesses and industries still struggle to define what it actually means to them: which capabilities to ...
For Microsoft, cybersecurity has become bigger than business
Since the cybersecurity firm FireEye hired Microsoft to help investigate a hack at the federal contractor SolarWinds, Microsoft has helped clean up the mess, alerted victims and distributed ...
Firms with exposed IoT have a higher concentration of other security problems
What does that correlation mean for chief information security officers? SC Media spoke to Kelly White, RiskRecon founder and CEO, to find out.
Security’s role in winning consumer trust in the post-pandemic economy
From the toll of the pandemic to the attack January 6 on the U.S. Capitol, trust has eroded. Today’s columnist, David Bradbury of Okta, says security teams can play a leading role in ...
ChaosSearch Announces Record-Breaking Year as Demand for its Data Platform Skyrockets
Enterprise customers triple while revenue jumps 766%, driven by worldwide enterprise demand
Suspected Russian Hack Extends Far Beyond SolarWinds Software, Investigators Say
Close to a third of the victims didn’t run the SolarWinds software initially considered the main avenue of attack for the hackers.