Attendees of a recent webinar hosted by tech news site Security Boulevard got a preview of the universe of cyberthreats that businesses will face this year based on the analysis of Candid Wüest, Acronis VP of Cyber Protection Research, and his team. Wüest, who served as the tech lead for Symantec’s global security response team prior to joining Acronis, began his keynote with a look back at the top threats of 2020.
He set the table with headlines of major cyberattacks – from highly-destructive ransomware attacks on global corporations to the exploit of the SaltStack vulnerability that brought down thousands of data centers to December’s harrowing software supply-chain breach of tech vendor SolarWinds that resulted in the subsequent penetration of tens of thousands of businesses and government institutions and the theft of sensitive data from dozens of them. ...read more!
