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Our sources state that there has been a 20% increase in web-skimming attacks since the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. Recently, we have witnessed some high-profile Magecart attacks on websites which have gained popularity during the pandemic, including fitness-based websites. The latest fitness-based website attack reported is YogaFit, who were compromised for over 6 weeks.

Cyberattacks are the “buzz word” that you hear when a company’s data has been breached. Sometimes the breach results in data being released on the internet. Other times, the hacker holds the data ransom in exchange for a large monetary payout. Data loss prevention and protection should be at the top of your list. Your data, after all, should be considered one of your most valuable business assets.

Unsurprisingly, a lot of people say they don’t like working with security teams. Security teams often have ridiculous requirements, and it can be painful for everyone when releases get delayed. I’ve been guilty of thinking the same thing, so when I was approached at my job at Doximity to build a security team (without prior experience doing so), I knew I wanted to take a different approach.

Modern application development requires more work to ensure the development path and the data it produces are fully in sync, secure, optimized, and error-free. This responsibility has increasingly fallen upon application developers. They’re being asked to double as database administrators to maintain fluidity in the process and support an agency’s rapid release cycle.

We have unveiled several exciting announcements recently, from the launch of Ivanti Neurons to all of our strategic partnerships and integrations (see the details on Intel and Qualys). In fact, we have had so much content to announce that we've needed to create a whole new blog category! But this train is not slowing down any time soon.

With one of the largest threats to a company’s security and privacy being its own employees, having employees work remotely only adds to the risk. While this year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report chalks it up to internal errors rather than intentional malice, the threat remains. Many corporations have sent employees to work from the confines of their homes, creating a greater need for protection against data and security breaches.

The Covid-19 pandemic has had an incredible impact on the world as nations work to keep their economies moving, secure the health and welfare of their citizens through social distancing, testing, and an immediate transition to remote work and classrooms. The world is adopting these measures while anxiously waiting for the great scientific institutions and private enterprises to test and deliver a vaccine to eradicate the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus we know as Covid-19.