This monthly report offers insight into PDS2 regulations and devleopments.

Understanding the gap in perceptions of cybersecurity between consumers and the organizations that serve them is a key theme of this report.

This report offers insight for lawyer’s and details how boards should proactively strive to create companywide cybersecurity protocols to avoid potential litigation.

This report identifies challenges and perceptions that enterprises, midmarket companies, and SMBs face across seven industry verticals including manufacturing, financial, and healthcare. The goal is to help readers to understand the common issues and where they are doing a better or worse job than others. Ultimately, the report will help readers understand how to handle threats better, no matter where they stand now.

This third Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report provides you with an up-to-the-minute picture of the cyber readiness of organisations, as well as a blueprint for best practice in the fight to counter the ever-evolving cyber threat.

In this report, we’re going to give you an overview of the credential stuffing attacks in 2018 against the aforementioned sectors and look at the risks these attacks pose. We’ll also explore some of the ways adversaries conduct these attacks.

Contrary to popular belief, every device is worth hacking when the process is automated. It doesn’t matter who or where you are, if you own a company big or small, or have technology in the home – every device can be monetized by an enterprising criminal. Brute force login attempts are likely occurring on any online device. Yet the speed and scale of the problem can boggle the mind. Criminals are relentless and often competitive with one another to find, take over, and monetize your smart devices. The research you’ll find here, using honeypot devices across the internet, is a first step in attempting to quantify the issue.

The 2018 Managed Security Report is based on the results of a comprehensive online survey of IT and cybersecurity professionals conducted in July and August of 2018.

This quarterly threat report offers insight into the DDoS attacks that occurred in the 4th quarter of 2018.

This report begins with an interesting paragraph, “Bad actors need to launder the $US 1.7 billion of cryptocurrency stolen and scammed in 2018. Furthermore, they need to get it all done before tough new global anti-money laundering (AML) and counter terror financing (CTF) regulations go into effect over the next year.” Read on to learn how this paragraph is important.

Using information from Rapid7’s Project Sonar internet telemetry service, this report reviews several dimensions of demonstrated security controls for companies in the S&P 200 and ASX (Australian) stock indices.

From the report, “As 2019 approached, ControlScan and MAC once again partnered to organize and conduct an industry study; however, this time we decided to reach out to the SMB merchants themselves. Measuring successes and concerns from the MSP’s perspective had given us part of the equation, so we wanted to learn how well aligned SMBs are with the efforts being aimed at them.” Read on to find out more.

3rd-party (aka supply-chain) cyber attacks were one of the main reasons for major data breaches in 2018. Here is a recap of 3rd-party data breaches that hit the news in 2018

“The future of GRC will not just be about managing known risks or monitoring compliance. It will be about sustaining an organization’s social license to operate.”

This report takes a look at the risk involved with third party cybersecurity issues.

This survey, conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BitSight, offers insight in to the critical role that Vendors play in key business functions and how they can create security risks and issues.

From the report, “A growing list of contractors and subcontractors have disclosed that they have been victims of data breaches resulting in the compromise of sensitive government information. In response, U.S. federal agencies have or are considering expanding cybersecurity requirements for their contractor base and adopting best practices for evaluating and monitoring those entities. In a recent study, BitSight found a large gap in the security posture between financial organizations and their third parties. This BitSight Insights report explores a similar question: what is the cybersecurity performance of U.S. federal contractors, and how does that compare to the performance of U.S. federal agencies?”

The State of Payment Processing & Fraud: 2018 Inaugural Survey & Report is a first-of-its kind study brought to you by Kount and The Fraud Practice. The inaugural survey reached hundreds of acquirers, processors, gateways, payment facilitators and issuers to get their take on the state of the industry and what is most critical for attracting and retaining clients and growing processing volumes.

The State of Chargebacks: 2018 Report, brought to you by Kount and Chargebacks911, is intended to provide an overview of the health and status of chargeback management in the Card Not Present (CNP) payments space. It includes key facts and figures about chargebacks, dispute and win rates. In addition, participating organizations shared insights about the tools, services, and solutions they employ for fraud detection and chargeback management, as well as the greatest challenges they face.

The State of Manual Reviews: 2018 Report, brought to you by Kount and Paladin Group, provides survey results about manual review trends and best practices in the card-not-present (CNP) payments environment. It includes key performance indicators (KPIs) and demographic details related to participating merchants. In addition, participants in the survey shared insights about the tools, services, and solutions they employ for their manual review process.

From the report, “The Digital Single Market, Revised Payment Services Directive and the General Data Protection Regulation are all complex and occasionally bewildering pieces of legislation, which aim to transform the European online market and improve services by promoting innovation. However, as they are yet to be fully implemented, organisations are understandably concerned about what they will look like in practice as opposed to on paper. Will global merchants from outside the region still be able to compete in Europe or will the new regulations be used as a form of protectionism? Will they fight fraud and chargebacks or unwittingly contribute to them? And how will Brexit – the unstable factor in the immediate future of the EU – impact all of this? As merchants and others wait in anticipation for the final stages of these three policy initiatives to take shape, The Chargeback Company is joined by contributors from ACI Worldwide and Kount to analyse the likely implications and opportunities for doing business in Europe from 2018.”