Ransomware is the “fastest growing malware threat.” In 2022, attacks in health care increased by 328%, a study found. Another recent study reports that from 2016 to 2021, the “annual.
Protecting Sensitive Information in the COVID-19 Era
Cybersecurity has become an enormous concern. In the last year, 80 percent of organizations have experienced a breach caused by a third-party vendor. The level of threat activity in the first half of 2020 surpassed all of the activity in 2019. Hackers create 300,000 pieces of malware every
day. Employee decisions are often the weak link in efforts to protect information from hackers. For example, in 2018 a NASA employee brought a personal computer to work without permission and connected it to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory network, which a hacker later targeted to gain access to adjoining systems. And according to Microsoft, 44 million of its customers are still using passwords that have been compromised by known, large-scale breaches.