Welcome to the 2021 Security Culture Report, the fourth annual report of its kind. The Security Culture Report and associated methodology was originally developed by CLTRe, which was acquired by KnowBe4 in 2019, and is KnowBe4 Research’s most ambitious report. The data represented here was collected during the global COVID-19 pandemic and, as such, some […]
KEY RESEARCH FINDINGS Investing in more solutions doesn’t mean more protection To protect business data, applications, and systems – particularly during the pandemic’s shift to remote work environments – organizations added new solutions to their IT environments. It’s not working. ~75% of IT professionals report that their organizations have all recommended cybersecurity technologies in place
Executive summary The Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) analyzed more than 3,000 popular Android applications to assess the state of mobile app security during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study targeted the most downloaded and highest grossing apps across 18 categories, many of which have seen explosive growth during the pandemic. The research focused on three
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For managed service providers (MSPs), like everyone in general, 2020 was an unpredictable year. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, cloud–based solutions, particularly collaboration tools have seen significant growth owing to the adoption of remote work by enterprises. Many offline businesses shifted online, leading to a rise in the demand for managed services. In this
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Security awareness programs have evolved from having a limited compliance focus to becoming a key part of an organization’s ability to manage its human cyber risk. The SANS 2021 Security Awareness ReportTM analyzes the data of over 1,500 security awareness professionals from around the world to identify and benchmark how organizations are managing
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Executive Summary The past year has been filled with changes to almost every aspect of daily life, and cyber threat intelligence (CTI) work did not go untouched. CTI is analyzed information about the capabilities, opportunities, and intent of adversaries conducting cyber operations. Adversaries tend to operate in and across digital networks and equipment that shape
Executive Summary Moving Toward the Color Purple In art, mixing mellow blue with aggressive red yields a vibrant purple. What happens, though, when the same palette is combined in the realm of cybersecurity? Blue and red security teams typically live in separate organizational silos. This is partially a matter of organizational structure and partially a
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The BlackBerry 2021 Threat Report examines the biggest cybersecurity events of last year and the security issues likely to affect the upcoming year. By publishing this information, we hope to minimize the damage of future cyber attacks and strengthen the global security posture. MAJOR EVENTS IMPACTING CYBERSECURITY IN 2020 The most obvious cybersecurity
As 2021 began, the world faced the possibility that we have not entirely put the unprecedented challenges of 2020 behind us. Healthcare sector entities continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic that, beyond the tragic human toll of the disease, fueled numerous incidents of malicious cyber activity. The ransomware adversaries that proliferated in 2020 are as
Foreword Welcome to the Q4 2020 issue of the ESET Threat Report! 2020 was many things (“typical” not being one of them), and it sure feels good to be writing about it in the past tense. As if really trying to prove a point, the pandemic picked up new steam in the last quarter, bringing
