SecurityWeek reports that the imminent shutdown of the Alexa Top Sites and Web Information Service APIs on Dec. 15 following the retirement of Alexa.com at the beginning of the month is a major hit for cybersecurity.
Most organizations have been prioritizing automation, silicon-level security, cloud migration, and education and training in security innovation, with the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on work processes being the primary driver for security strategy changes, VentureBeat reports.
In a newly released national security memorandum, the White House makes supremacy in the quantum realm the official policy of the United States and lays out a host of timelines and mandates for the “timely and equitable” replacement of classical, public-key encryption algorithms in federal systems and devices.
Nearly one year to the day since the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, U.S. officials say that cybersecurity coordination between the federal government and critical infrastructure is much improved, but departments and agencies are still working through how to coordinate their regulatory pushes with other stakeholders in and out of government.
Rezilion researchers discovered that the attack surface for the critical Log4Shell zero-day flaw in the Apache Log4j library continues to be significant four months since its discovery, according to BleepingComputer.
Cybersecurity mergers and acquisitions may reach record-highs this year, with M&A activity already reaching nearly $27 billion in the first quarter of 2022 alone, compared with $70.4 billion and $27.5 billion for the entirety of 2021 and 2020, respectively, reports SecurityWeek.
Seventy-four percent of IT security decision-makers around the world noted the potential failure of prevention-first security approaches and systems, saying that their organizations have been impacted by a significant security incident between February 2021 and February 2022.
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