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Venafi reveals security concern about election infrastructure
According to Venafi’s survey, 70% of security
professionals believe their local governments cannot
adequately defend election infrastructure against domestic
and international cyberattacks. In addition, 75% believe
that the spread of disinformation is the greatest threat to
election integrity.
“Many of the cyberattacks targeting elections come from
machines, which can automatically spread information
and direct attacks on the systems that count votes,” said
Kevin Bocek, Vice President of Security Strategy and
Threat Intelligence at Venafi. “Security professionals
are rightly concerned about cyberthreats impacting the
democratic process. Organisations may have difficulty
curbing deceptive or inaccurate information from people
– however, they can keep their machines from spreading
malicious disinformation.”
enafi, an inventor and leading provider of machine
V
identity protection, has announced the results of
a survey on election infrastructure cybersecurity.
The survey evaluated the opinions of 485 IT security
professionals attending RSA Conference 2020.
Bocek continued: “The election season is already in
process and COVID-19 adds a new layer of security
complications. Cyberattackers may take advantage of
this period of uncertainty to undermine further public
confidence by spreading disinformation. As a result, it’s
not surprising security professionals are concerned that
governments won’t be able to safeguard election data.”
DIMENSION DATA TO PROVIDE INCIDENT RESPONSE
REMEDIATION ASSISTANCE FREE TO UAE HOSPITALS
imension Data, an Africanborn
global systems integrator
D
and managed services
provider, is offering Incident Response
Remediation assistance at no cost
to UAE hospitals combatting the
pandemic, following a significant spike
in COVID-19 themed cyberattacks on
the healthcare sector.
Dimension Data’s service will enable
affected UAE hospitals to rapidly
restore operations after a successful
cyberattack and thus continue to deliver
critical services to patients.
Public and private hospitals, as well
as acute care hospitals, urgent care
clinics, community health centres and
other emergency care settings, are all
eligible to 40-hours of incident response
support, at no cost, on the condition
that they are directly providing care to
COVID-19 patients.
“The incredible rate at which the
virus has spread has overwhelmed
the healthcare sector. Dealing with
the impact of the virus is challenging
enough without the added complication
of critical operations being derailed by
cyberattacks,” said Redouane Gaouar,
Director Go-to-Market Practices and
Strategic Partner Alliances at Dimension
Data Middle East.
“By offering our incident response
service at no cost, our intention is to get
front line doctors and nurses as well as
all supporting functions trying to work in
a compromised hospital, back to saving
lives as quickly as possible.”
Redouane Gaouar, Director Go-to-Market
Practices and Strategic Partner Alliances at
Dimension Data Middle East
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