Comprehensive planning will help organizations hunker down for the coming ‘cyber storm.’

Increasingly sophisticated cyber threats that exploit economic, social and geopolitical volatility create the perfect conditions for a “gathering cyber storm,” cybersecurity experts warned in January during the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

IT security has always been a largely reactive endeavor: Monitor networks and systems in order to detect and respond to any threats that arise. But such an approach is inadequate given the increased speed, scale and costs of today’s evolving threats. According to Microsoft researchers, it can take less than 45 minutes for ransomware to infiltrate and encrypt an entire network — far faster than most organizations can mount an effective response.

The Software-as-a-Service market (SaaS) market continues to experience rapid growth, with surveys suggesting that almost all organizations now use at least one cloud application. According to the 2023 State of SaaSOps Report from BetterCloud, organizations use an average of 130 SaaS applications.

In a recent study by the Ponemon Institute, 54 percent of respondents said the volume of cyberattacks has increased over the past 12 months, with almost half of those reporting a significant increase. Security experts say the surge is due in large part to the transition to a remote workforce.

People are a company’s biggest expense. Wages, benefits, payroll taxes, training and equipment expenditures account for as much as 70 percent of total business costs. However, successful businesses understand that employees are also their most valuable asset.

Despite economic uncertainty, cloud costs are skyrocketing. Here are four ways to optimize cloud spending.

Following years of healthy growth, cloud adoption accelerated rapidly to accommodate pandemic-driven adjustments necessary to support the remote workforce.

New generation of cellular networks offers immediate business benefits as well as countless potential possibilities.

Cellular networks have transformed the way we live and work, but the most profound changes may be yet to come. Analysts predict fifth-generation (5G) broadband cellular networks will generate trillions of dollars in economic value over the next few years by resolving a host of business and societal challenges while establishing a framework for experimentation and innovation.

On Aug. 9, 2022, two former Twitter employees we found guilty accepting bribes from Saudi Arabia in exchange for confidential information stolen from the accounts of thousands of users, most of whom are critics of the Saudi government. Authorities say the employees stole email and IP addresses, biographical information, log data and more, even though their jobs did not require access to such information.

Unprecedented business, economic, social and geopolitical challenges are contributing to a perfect storm of cybersecurity risks, but few organizations have the resources necessary to deal with the fallout. As cybercrime reaches all-time highs, a new study finds that the global cybersecurity workforce must grow by 72 percent to effectively address the crisis.

Nearly half of Americans say they couldn’t get through the day without Wi-Fi, according to a recent OnePoll survey. We suspect the other half just don’t fully comprehend how much they depend on the technology.

Pandemic lockdowns that forced most of us to work remotely led to remarkable changes in network traffic patterns.