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Shadow IT refers to any hardware or software used without the explicit authorization of the IT department. Employees don’t typically have malicious intentions. They turn to Shadow IT for a legitimate reason: to get their jobs accomplished.

The first priority for CISOs has become building cyber resilience. This means migrating to the cloud, enforcing cloud security, and enabling a “work from anywhere” workforce. We’ll see this play out through investment in three distinct areas.

The incident involved unauthorized access and copying of some current and former employee data, as well as limited company information about some business partners.

During the COVID-19 period, we’ve seen our networks stretched beyond what they were ever designed to support, with many organizations scrambling to deliver the infrastructure necessary to make work-from-home effective.

Privileged users have access to a company’s most essential data, infrastructure and assets – and they are also targets for attackers.

Mayorkas, a former U.S. attorney and former deputy secretary of Homeland Security, is a known commodity in cybersecurity quarters, having worked on several key components of cyber policy, including threat information sharing, during his run in the Obama administration.