The survey found 66% of organizations plan to increase their cybersecurity investments because of COVID-19 and remote workforces.

Attackers “want to take over your entire brand, your entire digital presence, and use it to attack your customers,” VMware Carbon Black’s Tom Kellermann said.

Dell found 80% of organizations fast-tracked some digital transformation programs in 2020.

“We have to acknowledge what’s happening right now around the globe where nation-state actors are using intelligence services to attack private-sector companies,” William Evanina said.

Ransomware is “one of the largest threats to the upcoming elections,” warned Microsoft’s Tom Burt.

Awake CEO Rahul Kashyap recently bragged that his company’s network detection and response platform continues stealing customers from Arista’s arch-rival Cisco.

Despite breaches costing companies millions of dollars, CISOs still have a tough time justifying security budgets to corporate boards.

“The threat actors aren’t solely after the modification of votes,” said Cisco Talos’ Matt Olney. “They’re after the collective faith in the electoral process and in Western democracy in

Security tools built into Microsoft products detected and stopped “the majority” of these attacks, said Microsoft’s Tom Burt.

Cybereason hosted several of these election security tabletop exercises with the public and private sector to test resilience to possible disruptions.

A Microsoft survey found 58% of business leaders reported budget increases for cybersecurity because of the pandemic. And 82% plan to add security staff.

For CTI League members, the daily grind means preventing cyberattacks on hospitals and checking cyberthreat feeds for potential public health and safety dangers.

The launch represents the culmination of more than a year and a half of work, said SonicWall's Dmitriy Ayrapetov.

Election security took center stage at Black Hat, but not in the usual, who can hack a voting machine way.

McAfee’s Head of Advanced Threat Research Steve Povolny predicts emerging threats, like using deep fakes to bypass facial recognition, are on the horizon.

“You’re seeing this transition from burglary to home invasion or from the heist to a hostage situation,” VMware Carbon Black’s Tom Kellermann said.

Passwords aren’t user friendly or an effective form of security. So why do we still use them?

“The amount of ransomware campaigns right now is just unbelievable,” said AT&T Cybersecurity’s Jaime Blasco. “And two trends are enabling this.”

The Linux Foundation says any OpenSSF specifications and projects developed will be vendor agnostic.

“Our teams have to be representative of those we serve, and that’s one of the biggest opportunities we have in this industry,” said Cisco’s Dug Song.

Palo Alto Networks beat Cisco; Verizon pushed Nokia out; HPE geared up for a Cisco fight; and Google irked IBM with Istio.

SonicWall’s mid-year threat report found a 20% jump in ransomware globally in the first half of 2020 compared to mid-year 2019, with a staggering 109% spike in the U.S.

“Now that we’re all much more aware of the implication of the pandemic, we have to realize that a cyber pandemic can expand much faster than a biological one,”

Verizon integrates IBM's enterprise legacy for IoT; counterfeit Cisco switches were uncovered; and Dell looked to spinoff VMware’s future.