Welcome back to the blog for our final Cyber Security Awareness Month blog! Today we are focusing on the importance of patching and remediation. This key security step can prevent the majority of breaches and save organizations from an unfortunate, and costly, attack. A study by Ponemon shows that over 60% of breaches are due to unpatched, known vulnerabilities and many of the victims were unaware that their organizations were...
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Why we need a new approach to endpoint management By: Michael Martins, VP Partnerships, Tanium Global organizations are spending more money than ever on cybersecurity. The latest estimate put this outlay at an average annual sum of $5.3 million, up 250% since 2019. Yet, at the same time, 85 percent of Canadian companies experienced at least one cyberattack in 2021. And some ransomware groups are making hundreds of millions by exploiting...
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Unpatched systems are the most common technological factor in breaches and loss of productivity. Unfortunately, solutions to patch related risks are often themselves costly in terms of identifying and purchasing quality products, staffing and expertise. Almost two-thirds of breach victims report being breached due to unpatched, known vulnerabilities and many of these victims were unaware that their organizations were vulnerable in the first place. Over half of the impacted organizations rely...
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By Tanium Staff Asset discovery and inventory — or the process of maintaining a complete, accurate and up-to-date inventory of your IT assets — is more challenging than ever before. Even with proper asset discovery tools, you are managing an environment with an enormous volume of globally distributed assets with complex dependencies — each of which can either fail and lead to performance loss, or be compromised and result in an enterprise-wide security...
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