Michael Vizard

Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.

A report by Radware finds that DDoS attacks are increasing not only in number and volume, some lasting as long as 100 hours over six days ... Read More

Broadcom today at the VMware Explore 2024 conference extended its VMware vDefend portfolio to include generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in addition to extending its software-defined edge computing portfolio to provide deeper integrations with networking and security platforms that its VMware business unit provides ... Read More

Miggio has discovered a configuration-based vulnerability that enables cybercriminals to bypass authentication and authorization services provided by the Application Load Balancer (ALB) from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that could affect more than 15,000 potentially vulnerable applications ... Read More

A report published today by Critical Start, a provider of managed cybersecurity services, finds cyberattacks in the first half of 2024 continued to focus on vertical industries that are rich in critical data that can either be encrypted or stolen. For example, the manufacturing and industrial products sector remains the ... Read More

An analysis published by Palo Alto Networks finds a typical large organization adds or updates over 300 services every month, with those new and updated services being responsible for approximately 32% of new high or critical cloud exposures ... Read More

A survey of 300 application and software development, IT and security leaders finds nearly half (45%) working for organizations that, in the past year, have experienced a cybersecurity incident involving a third-party software-as-a-service (SaaS) application ... Read More

McAfee today added a tool to detect deep fakes to its portfolio that will initially be made available on PCs from Lenovo that are optimized to run artificial intelligence (AI) applications ... Read More

Perforce Software today published a survey of 250 IT professionals that finds the amount of sensitive data residing in non-production environments is rising as organizations embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and digital business transformation ... Read More

A global survey of 1,850 IT and cybersecurity decision-makers finds more than half (51%) reporting that directors or executives have faced fines, jail time, loss of position, or loss of employment following a cyberattack ... Read More

DEF CON conference organizations are looking for volunteers to join a Franklin initiative to help secure critical infrastructure and school systems that lack the expertise required to defend themselves against cyberattacks ... Read More