Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

July 2024

Why Intelligent Content is the Key to Unlock the Potential of Data

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face the critical challenge of maintaining robust data security while ensuring seamless access and collaboration. As businesses become increasingly digitized, the volume of sensitive and confidential information shared across departments, with suppliers and partners, has skyrocketed. This digital transformation brings numerous benefits but also heightens the risk of data loss, leakage, and unauthorized exposure.

Security breaches in the supply chain increase by 68%

In today's digital landscape, businesses heavily rely on third-party software for their daily operations. This reliance has led to a surge in software supply chain attacks, which are becoming increasingly prevalent and sophisticated. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities in external tools or services to gain unauthorized access and compromise systems.

Bitsight Groma: Next-generation Internet Scanning

Earlier this year, we announced Bitsight’s next-generation internet scanning, Bitsight Groma, and AI-powered discovery and attribution technology, Bitsight Graph of Internet Assets (Bitsight GIA). While these technologies work as partners in the Bitsight Cyber Risk Data Engine to create a dynamic map of internet infrastructure, it is helpful to separate them out to understand their unique contributions.

CrowdStrike Outage: What Happened and How to Limit Future Risk

In the early morning of July 19, a software update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor started to cause one of the most extensive IT outages in history, affecting several industry sectors, including financial services, healthcare, transportation, and others. According to CrowdStrike, the outage stemmed from “a defect found in a Falcon content update for Windows hosts.” At this point, the software update has not affected Mac and Linux systems.

Log on as a Batch Job Rights & Security Setting

Log on as a batch job policy determines the accounts permitted to sign in through a batch-queue tool like the Task Scheduler service. When you schedule a task using the Add Scheduled Task Wizard, assigning it to run under specific credentials, that user is granted the right to log on as a batch job. At the designated time, the Task Scheduler service logs in the user as a batch job rather than an interactive user, executing the task within the user’s security parameters.

Anonymous Logon: Understanding the Security Battleground with NT Authority

Anonymous logon refers to a type of network access where a user can log in to a system or network resource without providing any authentication credentials such as a username or password. This type of access is typically granted to allow basic, unauthenticated access to certain resources for public use or for specific purposes.

What are PECR? Securing electronic communications in line with the latest requirements

Any organisation that sends electronic marketing communications via phone, fax, email or text, uses web cookies, or provides communications services to the public falls under the scope of the PECR, and must be aware of its information security requirements.

Instagram Mobile Proxies: Boost Your Social Media Marketing with Better Account Management

In today's digital landscape, social media marketing is an essential component of any successful business strategy. Instagram, with its vast user base and visually-centric platform, has become a powerhouse for brands aiming to connect with their audience. However, managing multiple Instagram accounts can be complicated due to the platform's stringent policies. This is where Instagram Mobile Proxies become invaluable. By using mobile proxies, businesses can efficiently manage their accounts and enhance their social media marketing strategies.