The Cyber Kill Chain is a significant piece of work from Lockheed Martin in 2011. The Chain outlines seven essential points at which an IT team can intercept a cyberattack. Numerous experts took the process a bit further to eight steps: “reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery, exploitation, installation, command and control, actions on the objective, and monetization.”
Albertsons is a major grocery chain in the United States. The company is based in Boise, Idaho, and oversees a huge range of different grocery stores throughout the country. Stores like Star Market, Tom Thumb, Acme, Safeway, Vons, Balduccis, Food Lover's Market, Shaw's, Albertsons, and more.
Kimco Realty is a major real estate investment company based in Jericho, NY. The company specializes in developing shopping centers and helps businesses obtain the commercial real estate they need for grocery stores and other plazas. The company focuses on metropolitan locations primarily and maintains a staff of about 630 employees while generating more than $1.7 billion in annual revenue.
New data shows how poorly organizations are at identifying – let alone removing – an attacker's foothold, putting themselves at continued risk of further attacks and data breaches. We’d like to think our security stance includes some really great abilities to detect, investigate, detect, and remediate an attack.
Point32Health is a health company based in Canton, Massachusetts. This company oversees a variety of different health plans and is responsible for maintaining health care for some key universities. For example, the company manages Tufts Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health, and Integra Partners, to name a few. The business employs more than 1,100 people and generates over $9.4 billion in revenue annually.
The American Bar Association is the largest global organization of legal professionals in the world and has more than 166,000 members currently. The organization maintains data for a huge number of lawyers and other legal professionals, and this large-scale organization suffered from a recent data breach. The breach released information for over 1.4 million past members of the organization, putting countless users at risk in the process.
Shields Healthcare Group is a technologically advanced health service provider that works with independent and large medical providers. The company manages health data, offers online services, and works to help medical providers keep their information secure and organized. This large-scale provider recently experienced a data breach that left them in a dangerous situation that could put countless patients at risk.
Unfortunately, for LastPass and its users, this nightmare became a reality in August 2022 when a developer account was compromised. This led to a series of events that ultimately led to the exposure of sensitive customer data. A hacker exploited an employee to access the company’s data. But get this: the hacker exploited a three-year-old vulnerability that wasn’t patched. That’s like leaving your front door wide open for three years and being surprised when a burglar walks right in!
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a government agency that's tasked with protecting consumers from financial institutions. The agency mostly works to prevent companies from charging outrageous fees and surcharges to customers, but it helps with monitoring how consumer data is being used by companies as well.
