Due to the proliferation of cloud-native environments, ransomware attacks have increased dramatically in recent years. Cybercriminals can access a variety of ransomware tools from anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice. This capability has produced an entire economy of Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). Despite significant investment in real-time infrastructure security tools, organizations are failing to quickly identify and recover from an attack.

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Many businesses argue that they need to collect information about customers to verify who they are and secure their accounts. However, this is at odds with online privacy advocates, who say organizations are compromising our security by collecting far too much information about us.

There’s no question that the last 18 months have seen a pronounced increase in the sophistication of cyber threats. The technology industry is seeing a macro effect of global events propelling ransomware and wiperware development further into the future, rendering enterprise security systems useless. Here at Coralogix, we’re passionate about observability and security and what the former can do for the latter.

Compliance regulation is a necessary evil in the world of cybersecurity. As a CISO, you need to be aware of all compliance regulations that affect your organization so that you can ensure your security program meets these requirements while also protecting sensitive data.