Notable cyberattacks, or the threat of one, are becoming a near daily headline in the news.Within the past seven days, Ukraine’s top mobile operator reported being hit by a major cyberattack during the country’s ongoing conflict with Russia, Toyota Motor Co. revealed a second breach in less than month, and the U.S. government issued a warning that hackers backed by the Chinese military were attempting to infiltrate critical infrastructure, including power, water utilities and transportation networks.What this increasingly perilous landscape means for enterprise IT was the focus of a day-long discussion as part of the ongoing Dell Technologies Inc

A leading security researcher has described the current approach by hackers in three words: scale, speed and sophistication.This captures how cybercriminals and nation state actors are pursuing the business of leading an assault on government and enterprise systems today, according to Wendi Whitmore (pictured), senior vice president of Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks Inc.“When we talk about cybercriminals or nation state actors, we are really looking at the ability to exfiltrate data within hours instead of days or weeks,” Whitmore said