Vista Equity Partners has joined Thoma Bravo in the take-private cybersecurity spree, offering to buy security awareness training behemoth KnowBe4 at a $4.22 billion valuation. KnowBe4 says it has received a nonbinding offer from Vista of $24 per share for the shares not currently owned by Vista.
The latest ISMG Security Report discusses a new phishing-as-a-service toolkit designed to bypass multifactor authentication, the decision by Lloyd's of London to exclude nation-state attacks from cyber insurance policies, and challenges at Okta after it acquired customer identity giant Auth0.
Not all forms of MFA are created equal—at protecting against cyberattacks, in terms of the friction created for end users or IT support teams, or the ability to seamlessly work with the technology stack.
Download the Yubico white paper; Graduating from Legacy MFA to Modern Authentication to learn about:
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Despite the growing tide and sophistication of cyber attacks, many organizations continue to rely on legacy authentication methods such as usernames and passwords and mobile-based authentication, to secure access to critical and sensitive applications and data.
While any form of multi-factor authentication...
In today’s connected world, securing web applications and APIs from a wide range of threats — from web app business logic attacks and API abuse to bots — is critical for business success. However, securing digital properties amid cloud journeys, modern DevOps practices, and constantly changing applications and...
The SANS 2022 Security Awareness Report™ analyzes data provided by more than a thousand security awareness professionals from around the world to identify and benchmark how organizations are managing their human risk.
Download this report to discover actionable steps and resources to enable organizations at any...
Fastmail's customers utilize its platform specifically to get away from Google's user tracking and privacy invasion practices.
To meet the needs and expectations of its customers, Fastmail wanted to implement a privacy-centric bot management solution to effectively safeguard new account creations, recoveries, and...
Digital identities a – particularly the TLS certificates throughout your organization – are used by
machines to authenticate machine-to-machine communications. But they also protect machines
through consistent, trusted encryption.
When these machine identities fail, organizations experience outages. Even...
Preparedness is the best way to avoid having a cyberattack turn into a full breach. Organizations often realize after the breach the full impact on the organization and the systems as a whole. An effective incident response plan could better prepare your business continuity and put you in control.
This guide is...
In a recent survey of 5,400 IT professionals across 30 countries, 37% of them admitted that their organization had been a victim of a ransomware attack in the previous 12 months, with the average recovery bill coming in at an eye-watering $1.85M.
But the main question that we all are still asking is that do we...
Ransomware continues to be one of the top cyber threats facing organizations, with 37% admitting having been victimized in the last 12 months. It is critical, therefore, that you have advanced protection technologies in place to keep your organization secure.
This checklist identifies items to stop attacks from...
Cloud collaboration suites like Microsoft 365 are critical to business success, but have become significant entry points for potential exploitation. Just as your team relies on email and collaboration tools to accomplish their goals, so too do sophisticated threat actors. And while the built-in security of Microsoft...
Research by Dun & Bradstreet says business identity fraud jumped 254% in 2020. Tools can help prevent this fraud but may create greater friction, say Andrew La Marca, senior director at Dun & Bradstreet, and Ralph Gagliardi, agent in charge, High Tech Crimes Unit, Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Signal says 1,900 of its customers have been affected by the recent phishing attack on its third-party vendor Twilio. Signal says phone numbers and SMS verification codes of 1,900 customers are compromised, potentially transferring access of these accounts to the attackers.
The average person believes using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) makes them significantly less likely to be hacked. That is simply not true! Hackers can bypass 90-95% of MFA solutions much easier than you would think. Using a regular looking phishing email, they can bypass MFA just as easily as if it were a simple...
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