Financial services and fintec organizations have been a prime target for hackers recently, and regulators have not been shy about raising the alarm.

Government and government-adjacent municipal targets have been especially under the gun recently as cybercriminals seek easy routes to gaining big scores of personal data from targets with historically poor security.

Ransomware gangs are increasingly targeting the partners of major companies to find security flaws that enable them to gain valuable access or information that can then be translated into action against the major target.

It shouldn’t take that long to detect an intrusion, especially since healthcare targets have been increasingly endangered for the last year. That speaks to poor cybersecurity hygiene.

Government targets have been especially under the gun recently as cybercriminals seek easy routes to gaining big scores of personal data from targets with historically poor security.