Today, cyberattacks pose the most significant threat to an organization’s data. The Spring 2023 Rubrik Zero Labs report, based on research from over 1,600 IT and Security professionals, revealed that 99% of IT and security leaders were informed of at least one attack in their own environment in 2022.

As organizations navigate the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing and digital transformation, security remains a top priority. With the exponential growth of users, devices, and data in cloud environments, effective identity and access management is crucial to maintaining a strong security posture.

In 2023, cybersecurity continues to be in most cases a need-to-have for those who don’t want to take chances on getting caught in a cyberattack and its consequences. Attacks have gotten more sophisticated, while conflicts (online and offline, and at the same time) continue, including in Ukraine. Governments have heightened their cyber warnings and put together strategies, including around critical infrastructure (including health and education).

Today, SC Media announced the winners of its annual cybersecurity awards for excellence and achievements. At AT&T Cybersecurity we are thrilled that AT&T Alien Labs was awarded Best Threat Intelligence in this prestigious competition. The Alien Labs team works closely with the Open Threat Exchange (OTX), an open and free platform that lets security professionals easily share, research, and validate the latest threats, trends and techniques.

Cloudflare has a unique vantage point on the Internet. From this position, we are able to see, explore, and identify trends that would otherwise go unnoticed. In this report we are doing just that and sharing our insights into Internet-wide application security trends. This report is the third edition of our Application Security Report. The first one was published in March 2022, with the second published earlier this year in March, and this is the first to be published on a quarterly basis.

If you're a Microsoft-focused organisation you may be able to leverage the technology you already have to become more secure. Nirvana, for many of the organisations I speak with on a daily basis is to maximise what is already included in their licensing agreement and use the current people already in their IT and security department. This presents a challenge for smaller organisations without the extensive security analyst teams of a big financial institution.