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Dubai: 2020 wasn’t just the year of the COVID-19 – cyber threats spiked throughout the year and more so as peoples’ lives were spent interacting through digital screens. There were more than 10 million Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks worldwide last year, and the UAE alone saw an 183 per cent spike, according to Help AG, the cybersecurity arm of Etisalat. “This increase has made DDoS attacks by far the most prolific form of cybersecurity threats faced by organizations today,” said the report from Help AG. The government, private, oil and gas, telecom and healthcare secto...

UAE organisations faced dramatic increase in cyberattacks in 2020 Ransomware attacks have been on the rise, largely thanks to their high rates of success A common tactic employed by multiple threat actors involves using DDoS attacks as a mechanism to distract security monitoring and response teams, before executing the ransomware attack Organisations across the UAE and the Middle East region were faced with a record number of cyberattacks in 2020, that not only increased in frequency but also volumes, new research has shown. According to Help AG’s State of the Market Report 2021, over 10 mi...

Analysis of the NIST National Vulnerability Database shows that security teams were under siege in 2020 and into the first part of 2021 defending against an unprecedented number of flaws. Today's columnist, Ed Bellis of Kenna Security, cautions that CVSS scores don't always tell the full story. shioshvili is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 A growing number of companies are adopting risk-based vulnerability management programs to handle the endless wave of new vulnerabilities being disclosed every day -- more than 2,800 in the first three months of 2021. Yet, too often these programs make one crit...

Analysis of the NIST National Vulnerability Database shows that security teams were under siege in 2020 defending against an unprecedented number of flaws. Today’s columnist, Gus Evangelakos of XM Cyber offers insight on how to use a risk-based approach to tackle vulnerabilities. shioshvili is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Managing cybersecurity for an organization today requires a lot of skill and patience. It’s not a job for the faint of heart. A single vulnerability can result in the theft of everything the enterprise truly values. At the same time, the number of potential adversaries...