Honesty Is The Best Policy: Smbs That Disclose Breaches Proactively Tend To Experience 40% Less Financial Damage
27 November 2020 (MY) – There is a correlation between the way a data breach is disclosed and the total financial losses an organization experiences following a cybersecurity incident. According to a new Kaspersky report, ‘How businesses can minimize the cost of a data breach’, SMBs that decide to voluntarily inform their stakeholders and the public about a breach, on average, are likely to lose 40% less than their peers that...
Group-IB Unveils New Threat Hunting and Attack Prevention Solutions
26 November 2020 (SG) – Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company, has revealed the results of its yearlong development of proprietary high-tech products for threat hunting and research — Threat Intelligence & Attribution and Threat Hunting Framework. Altogether the solutions represent a new smart cybersecurity ecosystem uniting Group-IB’s patented innovative technologies unveiled by Group-IB at...
Advanced Persistent Threats In 2021: New Threat Angles And Attack Strategy Changes Are Coming
25 November 2020 (MY) – Kaspersky researchers have shared their vision on Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) in 2021, laying out how the landscape of targeted attacks will change in the coming months. The turmoil experienced in 2020 will bring along many structural and strategic changes, not just in our daily lives but in the realm of targeted attacks too, not in the least due to the now broadened attack surface. New attack...
Group-IB Reveals Cyberthreat Forecast for The Coming Year
25 November 2020 (SG) – Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company, has presented its annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 report. In the report, the company examines key shifts in the cybercrime world internationally between H2 2019 and H1 2020 and gives forecast for the coming year. The most severe financial damage has occurred as a result of ransomware activity. The past year — a harrowing period for the...
Adjust Joins Adobe Exchange Partner Program to Enhance App Marketing Measurement, Fraud Prevention and Reporting for Digital Advertisers
25 November 2020 (MY) – Global app marketing platform Adjust today announced a premier-level partnership and technology integration with Adobe, as part of the Adobe Exchange program. By combining mobile app data with data collected from additional touchpoints, current and prospective mutual clients will be able to build a more complete view of the user journey across all channels — augmenting their customer experience...
New Report Reveals How The COVID Crisis Could Set Back A Generation Of Women In Business
25 November 2020 (MY) – Women across the world have been disproportionally impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic – a staggering 87% of women business owners say they have been adversely affected. Overrepresentation in sectors hardest hit by the economic downturn, the pronounced digital gender gap in an increasingly virtual world, and the mounting pressures of childcare responsibilities are only a few factors that have left women...
Western Union Bolsters its Global Digital Cross-Border Payments Leadership
25 November 2020 (MY) – Western Union has announced it has expanded real-time digital payout capabilities into 100 countries reaching billions of bank accounts. For decades, Western Union already paid out in minutes into 550,000 agent locations in 200 countries and territories. The goal to expand real-time payout into bank accounts, wallets and cards was announced at the 2019 Investor Day where the company said it would reach...
Visa Commercial Pay Brings Virtual Card Capabilities to Clients and Partners Worldwide
25 November 2020 (MY) – Visa and Conferma Pay have announced a strategic partnership to launch Visa Commercial Pay, a suite of B2B payment solutions, to help improve cashflow for businesses and eliminate outdated manual processes. Virtual commercial cards have never been more necessary than today. Remote workers are turning to personal cards to pay for corporate expenses, buyers and suppliers need more efficient ways to pay and...
Kaspersky Urges Malaysian Parents To Keep Their Kids Safer Online
24 November 2020 (MY) – A move to ensure the new school session in 2021 can be conducted safely, all schools in Malaysia are set to remain close for the rest of the year. The Ministry of Education decided the move after considering data analysis of COVID-19 cases involving students, teachers, and their close contacts. The new school year would begin on Jan 20, 2021 . In addition, the Ministry has urged the school administrators...
The Future of Conversations in 2021
The year 2020 has shown us that businesses need to embrace digital tools early to be agile and resilient when the next disruption strikes. We saw a definitive adoption of Conversational Service Automation (CSA) this year. CSA enables businesses to listen to, analyse every customer interaction, use artificial intelligence (AI) to automate, and augment the conversational experience from self-service to agent-assisted service. Come 2021,...
