Data Protection September 26, 2024

Ransomware on the rise: Healthcare industry attack trends 2024

4 min read - According to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.88 million this year, a 10% increase over 2023. For the healthcare industry, the report offers both good and bad…

News September 23, 2024

Salesforce acquires Own Company

2 min read - How important is data protection and data management these days? It’s important enough that Salesforce recently announced it acquired Own Company, a leading provider of data protection and data management solutions, for $1.9 billion in cash. What motivated Salesforce to…

Data Protection August 27, 2024

Cost of data breaches: The business case for security AI and automation

3 min read - As Yogi Berra said, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” If the idea of the global average costs of data breaches rising year over year feels like more of the same, that’s because it is. Data protection solutions get better,…

Risk Management August 23, 2024

How Paris Olympic authorities battled cyberattacks, and won gold

3 min read - The Olympic Games Paris 2024 was by most accounts a highly successful Olympics. Some 10,000 athletes from 204 nations competed in 329 events over 16 days. But before and during the event, authorities battled Olympic-size cybersecurity threats coming from multiple…

Risk Management July 30, 2024

Surging data breach disruption drives costs to record highs

4 min read - Security teams are getting better at detecting and responding to breach incursions, but attackers are inflicting greater pain on organizations’ bottom lines. IBM’s recent Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 found the global average breach hit a record $4.88…

News June 11, 2024

Why the Christie’s auction house hack is different

3 min read - Christie’s, one of the world’s leading auction houses, was hacked in May, and the cyber group RansomHub has claimed responsibility. On May 12, Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti announced on LinkedIn that the company had “experienced a technology security incident.” RansomHub…

Data Protection May 14, 2024

Overheard at RSA Conference 2024: Top trends cybersecurity experts are talking about

4 min read - At a brunch roundtable, one of the many informal events held during the RSA Conference 2024 (RSAC), the conversation turned to the most popular trends and themes at this year’s events. There was no disagreement in what people presenting sessions…

News April 29, 2024

The major hardware flaw in Apple M-series chips

3 min read - The “need for speed” is having a negative impact on many Mac users right now. The Apple M-series chips, which are designed to deliver more consistent and faster performance than the Intel processors used in the past, have a vulnerability…

Data Protection February 27, 2024

The compelling need for cloud-native data protection

4 min read - Cloud environments were frequent targets for cyber attackers in 2023. Eighty-two percent of breaches that involved data stored in the cloud were in public, private or multi-cloud environments. Attackers gained the most access to multi-cloud environments, with 39% of breaches…

Data Protection February 13, 2024

Data residency: What is it and why it is important?

3 min read - Data residency is a hot topic, especially for cloud data. The reason is multi-faceted, but the focus has been driven by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which governs information privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area.…