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Organisations must gain better visibility into the endpoints of their IT systems if they do not want to be surprised by attacks, the head of Cyber Security Strategy at VMware Carbon Black says.

A survey of 250 Australian chief information officers, chief technology officers and chief information security officers has found that both cyber attacks and breaches had risen during the last 12 months, prompting increased expenditure on cyber defences.

There has been a spike in ransomware attacks as cybercriminals capitalise on the COVID 19 pandemic, according to a new report which found that ransomware attacks can be correlated to key days in the COVID-19 news cycle - suggesting attackers are being “nefariously opportunistic” and leverage breaking news to take advantage of vulnerable populations. 

Endpoint protection vendor VMware Carbon Black is to open an Australian data centre in the first half of 2020.