Cybercriminals can exploit weaknesses in access control system credentials, controllers, servers, readers, or workstations connected to the network.

Of the 500 officials surveyed, 40% work at federal civilian agencies, 40% at defense agencies, and 20% at intelligence and homeland security agencies.

All sectors say phishing is the most common type of attack they experience. 

When a company experiences a data breach, the financial impacts of the compromise can be detrimental. Share prices are estimated to fall 3.5% within four months, and 8.6% after a year. But which global companies have experienced the most expensive data breaches?

Despite cybersecurity experts continuously warning about the consequences of irresponsible password management, internet users were found guilty again. Compared to the data from 2021, 73% of the 200 most common passwords in 2022 remain the same. Furthermore, 83% of the passwords in this year’s list can be cracked in less than a second.

How do you know when a perfect storm is brewing? If your team is tasked with securing your organization’s operational technology and industrial control systems (OT/ICS), you may have a pretty good idea by now.

The study dug into a market on the dark web that has sold items worth $17.3 million. Having analyzed data from more than 50 countries, independent researchers found many online credentials usually used to launch broad scams and hacks.

Companies can mitigate cyberattacks with adequate security controls and practices.

On average, organizations experienced 15% more cybersecurity incidents in 2021 than in 2020. In addition, "material breaches"— defined as "those generating a large loss, compromising many records, or having a significant impact on business operations" — jumped 24.5%.  

Coalfire commissioned CyberRisk Alliance to conduct a survey of 300 respondents from both software buying and software producing companies. The goals were to capture the impact of highly public cyber events, President Joe Biden’s Executive Order (EO) on cybersecurity, and procurement delays, as well as to discover what actions companies are taking to address these mission critical challenges.