PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

Organizations are ramping up cybersecurity investments in response to the ever-climbing threat of data breaches and cyberattacks. But all the money in the world to secure an organization’s back office won’t necessarily help safeguard all company data.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2017

In 2016, there were 1,093 data breaches according to the Identity Theft Resource Center – a 40% increase over the 2015 data breach number of 781. Malware was the culprit in the multi-million-dollar Home Depot, Target, Wendy’s and PF Chang’s breaches. Malware and its Role in Data Breaches.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 20, 2024

No bank is immune to this threat, with ransomware attacks on financial services increasing from 55 per cent in 2022 to 64 per cent in 2023. The severity of the challenge is demonstrated in IBM ’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 , which ranks data breaches in the financial sector as second only to the healthcare industry in terms of costs.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Cyberattacks, ransomware attacks and more have taken businesses and people’s personal information and turned it upside-down over the past few decades. Since the internet came into mainstream use in the 1990s, there have been myriad cyber infiltrations into sensitive data. In 2016 alone, U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

The news that hit Friday afternoon that malware and ransomware were racing across the globe at a breakneck pace, infecting computers at companies across verticals and causing havoc, brought cybersecurity to top of mind, yet again. . Talk about timely.

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The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 11, 2023

. “Identity providers will also continue to be targeted, with modern defensive postures being able to bypass controls like multi-factor authentication while threat actors will continue to target third-party vendors to scale their attacks. In fact, our claims data has shown a significant increase in this activity.

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VISTA InfoSec

MAY 5, 2025

Third-Party Risk Management The Challenge: Your security is only as strong as your weakest link, which often includes third-party vendors. The Solution: Set clear expectations for vendors by requiring them to comply with SWIFT CSP controls. Legal Liabilities : Risk of legal action from non-compliance.

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