Tech Trends

Cybersecurity teams continue to emphasize intrusion prevention over incident response, despite US government action.

Most of those surveyed are concerned about AI-based attacks and deepfakes but suggest that their organizations are ready.

Organizations do not have good visibility into all the software-as-a-service applications that connect to and access data stored in core business.

The buzz on the show floor during RSA Conference is about aligning the organization's security priorities with the right technology. Will Lin, managing director and founding member at Forgepoint Capital, weighs in on the biggest security priorities for 2022 — and what kind of tech senior-level executives are looking for.

Verizon's "2022 Data Breach Investigations Report" repeatedly makes the point that criminals are stealing credentials to carry out their attacks.

Even with dedicated identity management tools at their disposal, many companies — smaller ones especially — are sticking with email and spreadsheets for handling permissions.

In the next 10 years, public-key encryption needs to be replaced by post-quantum techniques that can stand up to the new challenges.

The less-good news: IAM only works for applications your IT department knows about, so watch for "shadow IT" programs installed or written by users that leave a security gap.

Barely over a quarter of medical device companies surveyed maintain a software bill-of-materials, and less than half set security requirements at the design stage.

IT professionals worry most about cloud security, but other questions arise about training, functionality, and performance.

In this webinar replay, Omdia outlines the ways in which XDR facilitates faster and easier threat detection and response, and key points organizations should consider when evaluating XDR technology.

Half of the IT professionals surveyed who use cloud services also employ infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service.

While low-code and no-code tools make application development more flexible, they open up security flaws.

WAFs remain a popular backfill for complex and fraught patch management.

Data shows a disconnect between what decisionmakers consider top endpoint security priorities and how they focus their budget.