All the risk management measures an organization might take to address cybersecurity threats depend on one critical question: What is the organization’s risk tolerance? Risk tolerance is a concept borrowed from investment strategy and is part of various risk assessment methodologies. Investors with high risk tolerance are willing to endure volatility in the stock market and engage in risky investments; those with a low risk tolerance are more cautious.

All organizations have a team of C-suite executives to set strategy and run the business. Typically that group looks quite similar from one organization to the next, with the chief executive officer, chief technology officer, and chief financial officer among the most important. But do you also have a chief risk officer? Do you even need a “CRO”? What are the CRO’s responsibilities, anyway; and what is his or her role in enterprise risk management (ERM)?

If you are considering Azure Files as the persistent storage for your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) applications, there are important considerations around AKS backup and recovery with implications on how you can perform Dev, Test, and Staging. This article outlines these data management considerations in detail and how to work around Azure Files limitation to achieve feature parity with using Azure Managed Disks.

The Security Accounts Manager (SAM) is a database file in Windows operating system that comprises of usernames and passwords. The main aim behind SAM is to make our system more secure and reliable by protecting credentials in case of a data breach. Configuring SAM gives users the ability to authenticate themselves to the local machine if an account has been created for them in security accounts manager.

Whether businesses are grappling with rapidly changing market conditions, continued pandemic disruptions, geopolitical conflicts, or shifting workplace arrangements, threat actors are looking to take advantage of the moment to undermine network integrity or compromise data privacy. In many ways, their efforts are bearing fruit. According to a recent industry survey, 66 percent of respondents indicated they experienced a ransomware attack in 2021, a 29 percent year-over-year increase.

Working with data is something that requires a lot of care and precision, yet it often remains an under-scrutinized aspect of DevSecOps. This is because it requires focusing on many moving parts. You need to know exactly when data events occur, what parties are involved, and how they send and store data. In any process with more than minimal complexity, this is a huge web of events. Data flow mapping is the key to detangling that web.

In this blog post, we discuss the different types of challenges that third party relationships present and outline specific ways to defend against them. Third party risk is created when companies in an organisation’s supply chain have access to its data, systems or privileged information. This can lead to issues such as data breaches, IP theft or other security incidents. Organisations can be held accountable for security breaches even if they originate from a third party.

In Q2 2022, Kroll observed a 90% increase in attacks against the health care sector in comparison with Q1 2022, making it the most affected sector during this period. While this may signal the official end of the pandemic-era “truce” that many cybercriminals promised at the onset of COVID-19, threat actors are continuing to leverage other hallmarks of the pandemic, such as remote work access, to gain a foothold into victim networks.

Identity can be defined as the group of qualities and attributes that make one person unique from others. As a measurable and recordable set of features, identity is also comprehended in terms of the range of those measurable metrics so it can be saved on a system as a digital ID. Like all digital data, ID verification online is also a must to confirm ID to ensure the fraud-free operation and prove the person is who they claim to be.

During the pandemic, many forward-thinking manufacturers took shifts in consumer demands and in-person work patterns as an opportunity to modernize their factory floors and operational infrastructure. Now as supply chain challenges and inflationary forces come to the fore, the entire industry will be called to continue their innovative investments to make manufacturing processes speedier, more efficient, and equipped to compete in a new era.