- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Adrianne Appel2024-05-07T21:21:00
A larger percentage of cyberattacks last year involved breaches from within organizations compared to previous years, a new industry report indicated.
Verizon’s “2024 Data Breach Investigations Report” expanded its data set with more than 30,000 cybersecurity-related incidents across 94 countries that occurred between Nov. 1, 2022 and Oct. 31, 2023. About 10,000 incidents involved confirmed data breaches that formed the basis for the analysis.
The report found 35 percent of data breaches were caused by internal actors, compared to 20 percent the year before. Most of these internal breaches (73 percent) occurred after someone made an honest mistake.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is increasing its inspections of public drinking water systems after finding a majority of those reviewed were vulnerable to cyberattacks and related threats.
AT&T said personal account data on approximately 73 million current and former customers was released on the dark web two weeks ago but has not yet identified when and where the breach occurred.
Two chief compliance officers and an attorney discussed preparation for the “when, not if” threat of a data breach during a panel at CW’s Cyber Risk & Data Privacy Summit.
American Water Works Company, which supplies drinking water and wastewater to 14 million customers, disclosed a breach of its computer networks and system due to a cybersecurity incident.
The global average cost of a data breach jumped to an all-time high for the second year in a row, but companies can reel in the ballooning drag on profits by adopting artificial intelligence, according to an IBM report.
The U.S. Department of Energy released supply chain cybersecurity principles meant to help strengthen key technologies used to manage and operate electricity, oil, and natural gas systems.
