With cyberattacks — especially ransomware — on the rise, IT teams and security professionals must be on alert as never before. 

As companies store more data across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and third-party systems — and as data regulations grow and multiply — companies must stay on top of the ever-evolving data landscape or risk sinking altogether.

The S1 captures every backup job into an immutable state, retains immutable copies indefinitely without impacting performance, and roll back to a 30-second-old immutable copy if attacked. 

New research commissioned by defense.com revealed that British small businesses are more willing to put their customer data at risk than impact growth, despite a rise in business-critical cyberattacks, such as ransomware, in the past 12 months.

Each year, cybersecurity companies publish a number of research reports focusing on different aspects of cybersecurity and breach trends. This article includes a list of some of the most alarming statistics from several reports published throughout the year.

Among the hacked companies discovered by NordLocker’s research, there were not only large organizations, such as a global hotel chain, an automotive conglomerate, or a world-wide clothing brand, but also small, family-owned and operated businesses, like an Italian restaurant or a local dental clinic. 

Cybersecurity begins with being prepared, something too many companies are not proactive about, according to Technologent’s Chief Information Security Officer Jon Mendoza. 

Monday became “Black Monday” for those who rely on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The 8-hour outages on these apps left people confused — and services, such as Twitter,  booming with the extra traffic.

Unless institutions prepare and work to strengthen their DNS security, remote learning environments will remain at risk from attackers, meaning private information and productivity will be seriously threatened.