Businesses face myriad cybersecurity risks, from phishing to unauthorized access of proprietary information. While restricting access rights and maintaining strict security measures can help, potential insider threats are always a risk. Organizations must effectively monitor for signs of insider threats to prevent financial loss or the compromise of critical assets.

If over 40 major banks can be the target of JavaScript injection attacks, let’s be honest – so can you. In 2023, a malware campaign using this attack method affected 50,000 user sessions across more than 40 financial institutions worldwide, leaving many dev teams in pure damage-control mode. 67.9% of professional developers use JavaScript more often than any other programming language. Its popularity is understandable, given its versatile and interactive capabilities.

Effective employee monitoring is essential for maintaining productivity and security, especially in heavily regulated industries like finance, government, and healthcare. That’s why at Ekran System we are continuously working to enhance our product’s monitoring functionality. Now Ekran System is introducing new informative and user-friendly dashboards that will help you streamline your insider threat prevention and productivity management efforts.

Yep, it’s that time of year again. The moment when that dreaded questionnaire from your Cyber Insurer lands on your desk like a ton of digital bricks. Suddenly, panic mode kicks in, and you’re transported back to those school days, facing an exam that seemed more daunting than Mount Everest. Remember how you used to play the skipping game with exam questions, hoping for a miracle to help you conjure up some brilliant answers? Yeah, it’s like déjà vu all over again.

In the landscape of modern application development and deployment, Kubernetes has transcended its adoption phase to become a cornerstone technology for organizations worldwide. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a staggering 96% of organizations are actively using or evaluating Kubernetes, with over 5.6 million developers worldwide embracing its capabilities.

At a time when the cloud estate of organizations is expanding faster than ever, the attack surface is becoming harder to monitor. This blog post aims to demystify attack surface discovery. We’ll explore what it involves, why it’s important, and how it fits into securing your digital assets. By the end, you’ll understand why a nuanced approach to attack surface discovery isn’t just beneficial; it’s essential for staying a step ahead against today’s sophisticated threats.

An attack vector, also known as a threat vector, is a way for cybercriminals to gain access to an organization’s network or system. Some common types of attack vectors that organizations need to defend against include weak and compromised credentials, social engineering attacks, insider threats, unpatched software, lack of encryption and misconfigurations. Organizations must identify all of the potential attack vectors and protect their network against them to avoid security breaches.

What tools does the average security operations centre (SOC) use in 2024? What gets in the way when they deploy a new tool? And how stressed are security pros really? These were just some of the questions we wanted to find out the answer to when we partnered with OnePoll at the end of 2023/the start of 2024. Together, we surveyed 250 British and Irish Heads of IT at companies with 500+ employees. Here’s what they said.

Big businesses carving out their place in the digital age find themselves in a constant battle against cybersecurity threats. Despite their access to state-of-the-art technology and substantial financial resources, these commercial giants are not impervious to attacks. The complexity of their networks and the voluminous data they handle magnify their attractiveness as targets for cybercriminals.

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is used to evaluate and communicate the technical severity of software, hardware and firmware vulnerabilities. While CVSS has been around for nearly 2 decades and now stands as an industry standard tool for scoring the severity of a vulnerability, the framework still has its limitations. To mitigate some of these challenges and improve the efficacy of the system, an updated version of CVSS was released in November 2023.