The Echo Awards Launch to Honor Excellence in Public Sector Journalism
A coalition of leading marketing, communications and industry organizations serving the public sector today announced the launch of The Echo Awards, a new program recognizing journalists whose work amplifies understanding of government, policy, and the business of the public sector.
New Report Reveals APIs and Cloud Applications are CISOs’ Greatest Threat to Security Readiness
Just-published research, The CISOs Report, Perspectives, Challenges and Plans for 2022 and Beyond, reveals that Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are grappling with a wide range of risks and challenges, especially linked to accelerating utilization of technologies like cloud-based applications and the use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The report is based on a survey of more than 400 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) working across a broad set of companies and industry sectors in the US, Canada and other select nations.
Paying the Ransom: New Research Finds That Seventy Percent of CISOs Expect to be Impacted by Ransomware in Next 12 Months; 80 Percent Will Consider Paying the Ransom
A new Report, “Ransomware in Focus,” based on a survey of more than 250 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) cited ransomware as the #1 threat facing businesses today and one of the primary CISO concerns for the next 12 months, with many believing an attack is inevitable. Fifty-three percent of respondents were hit in the past year, with 69 percent saying it is likely they’ll be successfully attacked at least once in the next year – these percentages increase to 66 percent and 80 percent respectively when segmented for mid-sized organizations.
