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As more business processes increase their reliance on data, information security is not just a technical issue anymore. The bigger question, however, is around adoption of an effective risk management framework that not only quantifies risk but also improves executive decision making.

One such structured and defensible framework is FAIR (Factor Analysis of Information Risk).

A vulnerability scan detects and classifies system weaknesses in computers, networks, and communications equipment. A penetration test, on the other hand, is the practice of testing a computer system, network or web application to identify insecure business processes, poor security settings, or other weaknesses that a hacker could exploit.

According to Gartner, the public cloud services market grew by 17.5 percent in 2019 ($214.3 billion up from $182.4 billion in 2018).

As cloud investments will continue to surge in the future, organisations would face a big challenge of managing cloud security risks. Here are a few trends that will shape cloud security in 2020:

The Privasec team consists of information security professionals from all professional and personal backgrounds. We are an inspirational and supportive family who love having a fun place to work and supportive community within which we can grow professionally.

According to recent studies on cyber trends, ransomware attacks will continue to evolve and pave the way for two- stage extortion attacks: attacking victims with ransomware attacks to extract files and then extorting a ransom by threating to disclose sensitive data.

Modern Application program interfaces (APIs) have been providing developers more options to deliver efficient products/services in minimal time. Sources such as ProgrammableWeb provides a great directory to choose from over 15,000 APIs. However, with more data comes more security concerns. Businesses use APIs to connect services and transfer data and a robust API security strategy is key to improving an organisation’s security posture.

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Just like many other industries, the aviation industry has reaped benefits of substantial digital transformation. But with more digitalisation comes more risk. The Atlantic Council recently published a report regarding aviation cybersecurity, based on a global survey of 244 respondents. In this report, the two main sets of challenges highlighted are:

1. Attempt to weave aviation cybersecurity into flight safety, security, and enterprise information technology has proven difficult.
2. The second challenge is third-party risk management. There seems to be an issue between suppliers and customers regarding cybersecurity, with many finding it difficult to incorporate best practices into purchases, as well as difficulties in developing consensus on adequate cybersecurity risk management and transparency.

Application control treats software as packages and places trust in them for software management, however Application Whitelisting uniquely identifies every file and application as a unique item regardless of which software it belongs to.