70 percent of enterprises have dedicated SaaS security teams
Organizations have prioritized investment in SaaS security, with 70 percent establishing dedicated SaaS security teams, despite economic uncertainty and workforce reductions.
A new report from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), commissioned by cloud security specialist Adaptive Shield, also finds 39 percent of organizations are increasing their SaaS cybersecurity budgets compared to last year.
74 percent of companies struggle with cloud spending
New research from tech consultancy esynergy, which surveyed 700 business and tech leaders in the US and UK, finds 74 percent of organizations struggle to optimize cloud spend.
It also finds that 51 percent anticipate making a change to their cloud strategy in response to cost pressures. Increasingly they're looking at FinOps (financial operations) is to ensure that cloud resources are used efficiently.
Account takeover attacks are among top security concerns
A new study reveals that 60 percent of security leaders in the UK cite account takeover attacks as one of the top four most concerning cyber threats.
The survey from Abnormal Security shows 75 percent of UK survey participants report that their organization has been impacted by an account takeover attack at least once over the past year.
97 percent of organizations worried about AI security threats
A new report from Deep Instinct shows that 97 percent of security professionals are concerned that their organization will suffer an AI-generated security incident.
In addition 75 percent have had to change their cybersecurity strategy in the last year due to the rise in AI-powered cyber threats, with 73 percent expressing a greater focus on prevention capabilities.
How cloud optimization can fight rising costs [Q&A]
Cloud costs have been rising of late, making it vital that enterprises get a grip on their cloud networks and ensure they’re optimizing them to get the best value.
We spoke to Atif Khan, CTO of infrastructure on demand company Alkira, to discuss how businesses can manage their cloud assets and keep spending under control.
AI's impact on the startup and innovation ecosystem [Q&A]
Early stage businesses face many challenges. Not least of these is selecting the right technology solutions, something made even more difficult by the emergence of new technologies.
We spoke to Paul Pluschkell, founder and CEO of StartupOS, to find out about how AI and other technologies can impact on new businesses.
Enterprises struggle to make informed decisions on IT sourcing
Businesses are keen to adopt new technologies in their quest for digital transformation but often face a maze of biased information and incomplete data that hampers the decision making process.
A new report from request for proposal (RFP) specialist Olive Technologies looks at trends and requirements from real-world RFPs, managed through the Olive platform, to help organizations make data-driven, unbiased decisions when selecting IT solutions.
Rising breach numbers drive zero-trust adoption
Two-thirds of organizations responding to a new survey list cyber risk concerns as the most important drivers for implementing a zero-trust strategy.
A new report from the Entrust Cybersecurity Institute, based on research by the Ponemon Institute, shows the pattern is even more pronounced in the US, with 50 percent of organizations citing cyber breach risk and 29 percent reporting the expanding attack surface for a combined total of 79 percent.
Tens of thousands of websites vulnerable to data breaches
Over 58,000 unique websites from around the world are vulnerable to data breaches and even complete takeovers according to new research.
The Cybernews research team has investigated publicly exposed environment files (.env) that should be kept private and protected at all costs. These files hold passwords, API keys, and other secrets that websites need to access databases, mail servers, payment processors, content management systems, and various other services.
Why cloud attacks no longer need malware [Q&A]
As organizations have come to rely more on the cloud, it's become an increasingly attractive target for cybercriminals seeking to steal data or extract ransoms.
In the past this has involved the use of malware, but as attackers get more sophisticated there’s a move towards different types of attack. We spoke to Shai Morag, SVP and general manager cloud security at Tenable, to discover more about these threats and how to tackle them.
New Dashlane tool warns of compromised credentials
Leaked or stolen credentials remain a major cause of security breaches and reuse of passwords between accounts only compounds the problem.
Password manager company Dashlane is launching new automated tool to empower admins to proactively create a more security-conscious workforce and drive better credential security behavior across their organization, reducing the risk of credential theft.
90 percent of enterprises experience identity-related incidents
A new study from the Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA) finds that 90 percent of organizations experienced an identity-related incident in the past year and 84 percent suffered a direct business impact as a result.
The survey of over 520 identity and security professionals from organizations with over 1,000 employees finds the most significant impact, seeing a measurable rise this year, is distracting from core business (52 percent).
Budget is the top barrier to cloud security objectives
A new survey shows that 59 percent of executives say budget/cost is the top roadblock to achieving their cloud security objectives, followed by complexity (47 percent) and lack of skilled resources (41 percent).
The study from Gatepoint Research for Orca Security of 200 senior decision makers also reveals that 57 percent of respondents identify misconfigurations as their top cloud security risk, followed by unauthorized access (50 percent), data breaches (35 percent), insecure APIs (31 percent), lack of visibility (29 percent), and malicious insiders (12 percent).
Detectify launches new features for control over attack surfaces
Attack surfaces keep expanding, making it increasingly challenging for organizations to obtain and make sense of the most relevant insights from their attack surface data.
Attack surface management platform Detectify says its users see an average of 300 breaches per set policy, with over 70 percent of active policies focusing on spotting risky open ports.
Why software support AI chatbots should supplement, not supplant, human experts [Q&A]
Many enterprises have begun to rely more heavily on chatbots to provide software support, and this often means customers find it hard to get in contact with an experienced, human engineer when they encounter an issue that they need help resolving.
While this might save costs in the short term, it can seriously damage the company’s brand in the long term. We talked to Craig Mackereth, EVP, global service delivery at Rimini Street to find out about the overuse of AI chatbots for enterprise software support and ways that vendors could use generative AI to actually improve the customer experience.
Ian's Bio
Ian spent almost 20 years working with computers before he discovered that writing about them was easier than fixing them. Since then he's written for a number of computer magazines and is a former editor of PC Utilities. Follow him on Mastodon
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