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Apricorn | July 23, 2021

The leading manufacturer of software-free, 256-bit AES XTS hardware-encrypted USB drives, Apricorn, has announced various findings for the education sector from the Apricorn Global IT Security Survey, 2021. The survey says the education industry lacks concern about security threats from employees and, due to limited IT security policies related to remote work, has a greater risk for cybersecurity breaches and data loss than other industries. For example, 69.4% of respondents say, as targets that...

Help Net Security | March 18, 2020

The traditional network security model, in which traffic is routed through the data center for inspection and policy enforcement, is for all intents and purposes obsolete. A 2019 study by research firm Gartner found that “more users, devices, applications, services and data are located outside of an enterprise than inside. Driven by the adoption of multi-cloud infrastructure and applications, mobility and distributed workforces, the focal point for security has shifted to users and devices...

Infosecurity | January 29, 2020

A South Carolina water company is recovering from a cyber-attack that took its phone and online payment systems offline for nearly a week. The cyber-attack on Greenville Water triggered a payment system outage that began on Wednesday, January 22. Company spokesperson Emerald Clark said 500,000 customers were affected by the incident. An investigation has been launched into the cyber-attack, the exact nature of which is yet to be revealed by Greenville Water. It's not yet known who targeted t...

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prnewswire | November 05, 2020

Cowbell Cyber, the business' first AI-controlled digital protection supplier for little to moderate sized organizations (SMBs), today declared it has cooperated with Mylo – the advanced specialist dispatched by the world's biggest free merchant, Lockton – to empower expanded dispersion of Cowbell's independent digital protection to the private company market, a territory customarily underserved by digital protection. Organizations of all sizes are getting m...