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January 2023

Look twice before you "LookBack"

What makes great art, whether it be in literature, painting, film, or photography, so challenging and valuable that it seems to be out of our realm of understanding? In any such art, there is more to it than meets the eye. Whether these artists hid some messages for the generations in their art is beyond our knowledge. As the world transitioned into the digital age, we began to use this technique to communicate a lot of information in a single image.

Audit your users' logons: ADAudit Plus User Logon report

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is a UBA-driven auditor that fortifies your Active Directory (AD) security infrastructure. With over 250 built-in reports, it provides you with granular insights into what’s happening within your AD, such as all changes made to objects and their attributes. This can include changes to users, computers, groups, network shares, and more.

Threat detection review: Insider threats in cybersecurity

Globally, 67% of companies experience between 21 to 40 insider-related incidents per year, according to Ponemon Institute’s The Cost of Insider Threats 2022 report. The same report reveals that the frequency and cost of insider attacks have increased significantly over the past two years. Insider threats are one of the tougher attacks to predict and prevent, because of the difficulty in identifying insiders.

Essential endpoint security strategies for IT admins

When it comes to endpoint security, any oversight could allow a threat actor to penetrate your organization with ease. While your IT admins focus on bolstering endpoint network security, a threat actor focuses on finding any loopholes, making it all the more difficult to stay protected. Moreover, for every corner cut on security to improve productivity, the attack surface grows. Keeping your organization's network safe all comes down to planning and executing a proper security framework.

CISA publishes SCuBA's security configuration baseline tool for Microsoft 365

It is a no brainer that cloud adoption has surged exponentially in the last couple of years. The rise of digitization and DevOps combined with the aftermath of the pandemic has made cloud computing a critical ingredient for any organization’s growth. Gartner® predicts that by 2025, more than 95% of digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms.

Bid goodbye to ransomware attacks with Endpoint Central's Anti-Ransomware

Ransomware is an alarming cyberthreat that’s been evolving over the decades. According to Statista, there were a total of 236.1 million ransomware attacks worldwide during the first half of 2022. When organizations do not pay attention to their company’s cybersecurity structure, attackers instigate ransomware attacks by encrypting confidential files and folders, and ultimately demanding ransom. The ransom varies according to the type of ransomware variants.

The remote IT workforce boom and ways to face it

When the entire world decided to shut down following the COVID-19 outbreak, did it stop organizations from doing their work? Did banks and hospitals take a break? Many had to carry on their daily routine to keep the world alive. Employees were scattered across every corner of the world. Yet sysadmins were still expected to maintain control of the endpoints in the organization and troubleshoot issues instantly.

A fatal retweet: How the newest attack on Twitter can teach us a lesson on cybersecurity

In what may be the largest Twitter data breach attack to date, the personal data of over 400 million users was stolen from the social media giant’s grasp and put up for sale on the dark net on the day after Christmas. This attack couldn’t have happened at a worse time for the company, as the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced an investigation into an earlier Twitter data leak in November 2022 that had affected over 5.4 million users.

How cybersecurity builds a sustainable future

Here's a familiar term: sustainable development. First used in 1987, it has since taken various shapes for a plethora of uses. But right now, sustainability has become the need of the hour—the need to evolve without compromising the survival of future generations. By 2025, an estimated 1.8 billion people on this planet will not have access to drinking water. If we don't change our ways in the next 27 years, experts predict we will run out of food. And at our current rate of consumption, we need around 1.7 planet Earths to sustain us.

The impact of cyber fouling and how scavengers might capitalize on it

The cyber landscape is ever-evolving. Organizations have started moving their resources to the cloud excessively to scale up their deliverables. The hybrid work culture and BYOD policies have made an organization’s network increasingly perimeter-less. With organizations adopting different policies to increase operational efficiency, SOCs scramble to ensure security in the network. As for attackers who are opportunists by nature, the hybrid work model introduces a lot of opportunities.