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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISOs See Budgets Tighten, as Cyberthreats Intensify

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After double-digit growth in the past two years, cybersecurity budgets expanded more modestly in 2023. 1 - Cybersecurity budgets grow, but less than in years past Cybersecurity teams on average saw an increase in their 2023 budgets, but the bump was much smaller than in previous years, as organizations across the board reined in IT spending.

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5 tips for securing your remote workspace

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In fact, support for hybrid and remote workers was named as a key reason for increasing IT budgets this year according to Foundry’s 2023 State of the CIO research. This may sound hackneyed, but employees continue to click on malware (according to HP 21% have done so since working from home). Use the tools IT provides.

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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs

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A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware. Sometimes the malware has errors, but with simple repetition the hacker can generate multiple working versions of the code. Such polymorphic malware is particularly hard to detect, because it may be different from one attack to another.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: SANS Offers Tips for Maximizing Smaller OT Security Budgets

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A SANS Institute survey found that budgets for ICS/OT security have shrunk, and advises on how to do more with less. Essentially, budgets are down in just about every category we analyzed,” the SANS Institute report reads. Plus, hiring managers boost starting salaries to recruit stellar cyber pros. And much more! in 2022 to 21.8%

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

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Why securing cloud workloads is an urgent matter In recent years, major cloud service providers encountered 6,000 malware samples actively communicating with them, underlining the magnitude of cloud security challenges. Due to the current economic circumstances security teams operate under budget constraints. 8 Complexity.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISOs Value Prevention Over Response, While CISA Urges Cyber Teams To Prep for Quantum Attacks

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Key findings from the study include: Detection and prevention currently take up around half of enterprise security budgets, with response and recovery accounting for around 30%. Bucking a trend where department budgets are shrinking by 7% annually on average, security budgets rose 4.6 The reason?

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Insights on Supply Chain Security, Hiring, Budgets, K8s, Ransomware

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1 - Cybersecurity budgets rise, but hiring remains a challenge. Although cybersecurity teams got a budget bump and devote, by far, the largest budget slice to staff compensation, security leaders continue to struggle with recruitment and retention. Cybersecurity budget breakdown and best practices ” (TechTarget). “

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