The time is now to start accelerating the shift to Windows 11.

Ransomware is one of the most dangerous cyber attacks to businesses and consumers. This type of malware holds files and data hostage until a ransom is paid. Ransomware incidents can result in data loss, financial losses, and even ransomware payments. In order to protect your business from ransomware-based data breaches, it is important to understand ransomware statistics, ransomware trends, and the best practices for ransomware prevention.

A third-party questionnaire is a list of questions that vendors complete to help organizations understand their vendors’ security posture, vulnerabilities, and compliance with industry standards (including, but not limited to SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.). However, if this questionnaire is completed incorrectly, organizations can face a series of unknown third-party risks.

Eighty percent of modern attacks are identity-driven. Why would an attacker hack into a system when they can simply use stolen credentials to masquerade as an approved user and log in to the target organization? Once inside, attackers increasingly target Microsoft Active Directory because it holds the proverbial keys to the kingdom, providing broad access to the systems, applications, resources and data that adversaries exploit in their attacks.

With the end of the year fast approaching, many of us are looking forward to a well-deserved break. However, security practitioners and security leaders worldwide are bracing themselves for what has become a peak period for novel and disruptive threats. In 2020, the holiday season was marked by the SUNBURST incident, and in 2021 the world grappled with Log4Shell.

As a new alternative to offline seller onboarding, a new digital onboarding method is being tested by amazon for verifying the identity of merchants online, this biometric verification system uses facial recognition in the form of Face Match for automated identity verification to onboard vendors. According to a post issued from the online business giant – Amazon, the test will be made available to potential sellers in the United States as a voluntary option starting today.