Midsize enterprise (MSE) IT leaders face significant security challenges when trying to deliver IT services with small IT teams and limited IT budgets. Across industries, MSE IT budgets average 4.9% of annual revenue, but only 5% of the IT budget is dedicated to security. The need to create a strong, mature security posture remains. Join this complimentary Gartner security and risk webinar as Gartner expert Paul Furtado explores the top trends...

CyberEdge’s annual Cyberthreat Defense Report (CDR) has become a staple for assessing organizations’ security postures, for gauging perceptions of IT security professionals, and for ascertaining current and planned investments in IT security infrastructure. It incorporates dozens of insights from 1,200 security professionals from 17 countries and 19 industries. Join Steve Piper, Founder & CEO of CyberEdge (and proud CISSP), as...

If you have purchased Microsoft Defender XDR but have yet to deploy the Defender for Endpoint component, it’s time to put your investment to work. In today’s landscape, the average cost of a data breach exceeds $4 million globally.1 Defender for Endpoint helps to protect your business with automated, AI-powered capabilities that detect and respond rapidly to threats across the chain—including phishing, malware, and ransomware...

Adversaries targeting critical infrastructure systems (power grids, water management systems, heavy manufacturing, oil and gas refineries and pipelines, etc.) have demonstrated detail technical knowledge of control system components, industrial protocols, and engineering operations. These skilled and brazen adversaries continue to launch a combination or Ransomware and targeted ICS tailored attacks against the safety and reliability of critica...

The cybersecurity workforce has exploded in recent years, with more than 1 million available jobs posted in 2023 alone. Daunting is the fact that the demand for skilled employees more than doubles the currently available workforce. Even for the most seasoned professionals, there is a desperate need to stay on top of the latest attack trends, vulnerabilities and exploits, and to constantly vet the myriad of available tools touted to do the job,...