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      Survey: Human Factors Create Significant Cybersecurity Risks for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Despite Increased Technology Investment

      2024-04-30

      Business Wire: Small and medium-sized business (SMB) leaders report that they are investing more time, attention, and budget on cybersecurity, but human factors are getting in the way – including lack of awareness, training and inconsistent policy adherence.

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      AI Increases Cybersecurity Threats Amidst IT Budget Cuts, Study Warns

      2024-04-29

      BNN Bloomberg: A new study warns that cybersecurity measures must be prioritized amidst an increasingly sophisticated threat of artificial intelligence (AI). 

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      Global Industrial Cybersecurity Market Size To Exceed USD 39.94 Billion By 2033

      2024-04-22

      Globe Newswire: The Global Industrial Cybersecurity Market Size is to Grow from USD 18.74 Billion in 2023 to USD 39.94 Billion by 2033, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.86% during the projected period.

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      Why Cybersecurity Should Be Driving Your Enterprise Risk Management Strategy

      2024-04-22

      Forbes: In an era defined by digital transformation and escalating cyber threats, the role of cybersecurity has become ubiquitous. Today, no serious business can do without firewalls to prevent unauthorized access, encryption to protect digital assets or intrusion detection systems to prevent data breaches. 

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      Ransomware Payments Drop to Record Low of 28% in Q1 2024

      2024-04-21

      Bleeping Computer: Ransomware actors have had a rough start this year, as stats from cybersecurity firm Coveware show companies are increasingly refusing to pay extortion demands, leading to a record low of 28% of companies paying ransom in the first quarter of 2024.

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      Cybersecurity Funding Shows Resilience In Q1

      2024-04-16

      Crunchbase: Venture funding overall was still sluggish, but cybersecurity startups saw some love from investors in the first quarter of 2024. To be sure, this is not the salad days of 2021 — cybersecurity funding was still down year to year — but the sector saw its best funding quarter in three quarters.

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      Russia Ranked Top of Global Cybercrime Index in New Study

      2024-04-11

      MSN: The World Cybercrime Index has been published in journal Plos One following three years of research by academics from the University of Oxford and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra.

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      Cyber Attacks Risk Triggering Bank Runs, Warns IMF

      2024-04-09

      Yahoo Finance: Cyber attacks are becoming so frequent, malicious and costly that they risk triggering bank runs, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Fund warned that rising cyber threats now posed “serious concerns for financial stability” and could push companies into insolvency.

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      The Secret To Leveraging AI For Cybersecurity

      2024-04-09

      Forbes: Every day, we hear from government and company leaders asking how they can best leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for improved cybersecurity outcomes—and for protection against more sophisticated attacks created by bad actors using AI.

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      Cybersecurity Market to Reach USD 395 Billion by 2031

      2024-04-09

      StreetInsider: A growing number of cyber-attacks owing to the proliferation of e-commerce platforms, emergence of smart devices, and deployment of cloud are some key factors propelling Cybersecurity Market growth.

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