According to a Gartner report, 60% of organizations will rely on third-party vendors for more than half of their critical business operations by 2025. However, Gartner also warns that third-party risk events – such as data breaches or compliance violations – will increase by 30% in the same timeframe. As a technology leader, these figures resonate deeply with the challenges I see organizations facing daily.

Ransomware groups claimed responsibility for 5,461 attacks in 2024, with 1,204 of these attacks being publicly confirmed by victim organizations, according to Comparitech’s latest Ransomware Roundup report. The average ransom demand was more than $3.5 million, and the average ransom paid was $9.5 million. Many of these attacks involved data theft extortion, leading to the breach of nearly 200 million records.

Note: These vulnerabilities remain under active exploitation and Kroll experts are investigating. If further details are uncovered by our team, updates will be made to the Kroll Cyber Risk blog. A critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CWE-288) affecting FortiOS and FortiProxy (FG-IR-24-535) allows remote attackers to obtain super admin privileges via Node.js WebSocket traffic.

Social engineering and phishing are involved in 70% - 90% of data breaches. No other root cause of malicious hacking (e.g., unpatched software and firmware, eavesdropping, cryptography attacks, physical theft, etc.) comes close. In fact, if you add up all other causes for successful cyberattacks together, they do not come close to equaling the damage done by social engineering and phishing alone.

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) comes into full effect on January 17, 2025. This deadline marks a monumental shift in how financial institutions and their technology providers prioritize and maintain operational resilience and cybersecurity standards – and sets in stone real business and regulatory consequences to ensure resilience is achieved. And like any sweeping security regulation, organizations must embark on an uphill journey to earn full compliance.

Identity thieves will do anything to get your Social Security Number (SSN). It's a very important piece of personal information. Locking your SSN is a proactive way to protect your name and money from fraud. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that over 1.4 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2022. Many of these crimes involved stolen Social Security numbers. To lower these risks, you need to learn how to safely lock your Social Security Number.

Android Device Management is a solution that enables businesses to monitor, secure, and manage Android devices remotely. It ensures data protection, boosts productivity, and simplifies IT administration by controlling device access, apps, and configurations effectively.

Internxt is proud to be one of the first cloud storage companies to protect business and individual data with the world’s most advanced encryption, post-quantum cryptography. Our post-quantum encryption protects your files and data from the potential threats of quantum computers that hold the power to break current encryption protocols due to their superior ability to solve complex algorithms in minutes or even seconds.

When it comes to securing your business, visibility into your company’s devices is key. As we so often say, you can’t protect what you can’t see. What’s more, visibility into your devices needs to be accurate and current – your IT security and operations teams can’t protect your environment if they’re working from data that’s hours (or days or weeks) old.

While regulations might not explicitly demand “email continuity,” failure to maintain it can result in.