Tag: IT security trends

Across the IT security landscape, the year of 2018 was never prosaic or boring. We saw breaches of such giants as British Airways, Macy’s and Facebook, data privacy scandals around Google and Facebook (again), and the GDPR shakeup, to name just a few. Now it is time to look at what the next...

Today, nearly every organization relies on stable and secure IT operations, so cyber risks merit the same careful attention as other types of risks. Top leaders understand this: The World Economic Forum’s 2018 Global Risk Report claims that most influential movers and shakers view cyber attacks...

In 2017, the IT community was primarily focused on mitigating external threats, such as cloud hacks and state-sponsored cyber attacks. However, many of this year’s data breaches — notably Equifax and Anthem — were actually the result of insider misuse or human mistakes. These breaches clearly...

The year 2016 was definitely not the best year for cybersecurity. A series of headline-making data breaches like those at MySpace, LinkedIn, Friend Finder Network and Mossack Fonseca have proven that hackers are currently beating organizations in the field of data protection. In 2017, the situation...

Infosecurity Europe 2016, Europe’s number one information security event, took place in London, 7–9 June 2016. Cybercrimes, ransomware, and insider threat detection were this year’s hot topics. Netwrix experts ran a few speaking sessions at the Cyber Innovation Showcase segment that...

During the last 8 years IT industry hot topics were data governance, network monitoring, threat detection, virtualization, new cost-effective approaches to infrastructure management, backup and disaster recovery solutions and identity governance solutions. However, there’s a new set of IT...

While the number of announced data breaches in 2015 is lower compared to 2014, the number of compromised accounts increased dramatically, exposing more personal data than ever before. Among the top causes is an increase in hidden attacks that use more advanced technics to bypass security...

Michael Fimin, CEO of Netwrix Corporation, shared his thoughts and made a top list of security trends that will drive Information Technology in 2015. Information technology is constantly evolving, taking in more and more aspects of our personal and professional lives. As the complexity and...