Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

January 2025

What To Do If You Click on a Phishing Link

If you click on a phishing link you should immediately disconnect your device from the internet, scan your device using antivirus software and keep a lookout for suspicious activity and transactions on your online accounts. Learn more about what a phishing link is and what to do if you click on a phishing link.

Supercharge Your Security Budget in 2025: Smarter Investments, Stronger Defence

Ever wonder how to get the most out of your cybersecurity budget without leaving your company vulnerable? Hey there, it’s Jim from Razorwire! In this episode, I sit down with cybersecurity pros Chris Dawson and Iain Pye to chat about smart spending when it comes to your cybersecurity budget. Whether you’re a big enterprise with a hefty budget or a small business wanting maximum impact on a small budget, we’ve got some actionable insights for you. Summary In this episode, we tackle one of the industry's most pressing challenges - how organisations allocate and manage their cybersecurity spending.

Effective API Throttling for Enhanced API Security

APIs are the backbone of modern digital ecosystems, but their misuse can expose systems to cyber threats. Effective API throttling not only optimizes performance but also acts as a critical defense mechanism against abuse, such as denial-of-service attacks. Discover how this powerful strategy enhances API security and safeguards your organization’s data in an interconnected world.

Top 8 Device Fingerprinting Solutions

In industries like banking, e-commerce, and logistics, where millions of transactions occur daily, fraud often begins with a single malicious device. Attackers use proxies and VPNs to mimic legitimate users, but subtle clues — browser settings, session habits, or time zone mismatches – can expose their schemes. Device fingerprinting solutions have become essential for businesses aiming to enhance fraud prevention and improve user experience.

Kovrr's Top 9 Cyber Loss Scenarios: A Year In Review

‍ ‍While each organization faces its own unique set of cyber risks that must be carefully assessed and managed in order to reach a state of resilience, certain events are nearly inevitable in today's threat environment, having the potential to create damaging ripple effects across the global market. Early in 2024, Kovrr's cyber risk quantification models identified these potential cyber incidents and loss scenarios most likely to impact organizations worldwide in the upcoming year.

Enhance IT Monitoring with NAKIVO: Alarms and Reporting Explained

Using IT monitoring in an organization’s infrastructure can improve its reliability and help prevent serious issues, failures, and downtimes. There are different approaches to implementing IT monitoring, by either using dedicated tools or native functionality. With either approach, you can view the monitoring data when needed or configure automatic alerts and reports to be notified of important events. This blog post explains how to enhance the IT monitoring strategy by using alarms and reports.

Emerging Threat: Windows LDAP CVE-2024-49113

CVE-2024-49113, also known as LDAPNightmare, is a high severity (CVSS score of 7.5) unauthenticated Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). This vulnerability allows attackers to crash any unpatched Windows server with an internet-accessible DNS server by overwhelming a critical internal component of the operating system. Both CVE-2024-49113 and its relative, the critical RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-49112, were publicized in December 2024.

WatchGuard Acquires ActZero to Accelerate Delivery of 24/7 MDR Services

WatchGuard acquired ActZero, a leading provider of MDR services with proactive, rapid and automated threat response and cross-platform AI-driven threat analysis designed to outpace threats at machine speed. This move further expands and matures WatchGuard’s innovative 24/7 MDR service and was signed and closed on December 17, 2024.

Web Application Security for DevOps: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) and Subresource Integrity (SRI)

With all of that background from parts 1, 2, and 3 of this series out of the way, let's turn to some practical considerations for real-world web applications. The inherent security restrictions for resources, including cookies and JavaScript, assume that each website contains all of its functionality in one neat, isolated package. But websites often contain content and functionality from multiple websites that trust each other.

How to build a cyber risk program that will lock hackers out

Rob Kraczek, One Identity Global Strategist, explores how organizations can avoid becoming part of the 90% of organizations that are victims of cyberattacks by developing a cyber risk program. Most hackers look for the easiest and most effective way to hack your environment. In this video, Kraczek shares why every organization needs robust identity governance and administration (IGA), the core component of a cyber risk program, to prevent cyberattacks. Learn more about Risk in the World of Identity Governance.