As the pandemic continues to impact businesses all over the world, new challenges have emerged for business leaders - particularly in the retail and consumer sectors of the market. At Rubrik, we partner with leading global system integrators and delivery partners to solve the most difficult challenges enterprises face in these verticals.
There's every indication that the pandemic is changing the nature of cybersecurity. Online threats are evolving to match our new remote-work paradigm, with 91% of businesses reporting an increase in cyberattacks during the coronavirus outbreak. Hackers are getting more and more sophisticated and targeted in their attacks. Many of these cyber threats have been around for a while, but they are becoming harder for the average user to detect. Beware of these four common types of cyber threats - and learn what you can do to prevent them.
If you were asked to list out the top problems society has been facing in 2020, cyberattacks on the maritime industry might not be an obvious issue that would come to mind. But the industry has seen a worrying trend in recent months, as a spike in cyberattacks that has left some of the biggest companies in the industry exposed. Specifically, both the fourth largest global shopping company and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have been targeted in these attacks.
Our Crowdsource ethical hacker community has been busy sending us security updates, including 0-day research. For Asset Monitoring, we now push out tests more frequently at record speed within 25 minutes from hacker to scanner. Due to confidentially agreements, we cannot publicize all security update releases here but they are immediately added to our scanner and available to all users. The following are some of the security vulnerabilities reported by Detectify Crowdsource ethical hackers.
Threat intelligence has been a very important asset to cybersecurity- knowing in advance some properties of malicious actors is key for preventing security incidents. Most typically these properties are IP addresses, domains, emails and file hashes, and being able to compare them to what’s happening in your infrastructure allows for quick response and prevention.
OWASP A1 (Injection) covers diversified injection vulnerabilities and security flaws including SQL and NoSQL injections, OS command injection and LDAP query manipulations.
TrustRadius recently awarded Veracode with a 2021 Best Application Security Feature Set Award and Best Application Security Customer Support Award. These honors are given to companies that have gone above and beyond to delight their users. To win the Best Feature Set Award, each nominated organization had to receive 10 TrustRadius reviews in the past year that featured specific mention of their product’s feature set.
In their attempt to extort as much money as quickly as possible out of companies, ransomware gangs know some effective techniques to get the full attention of a firm’s management team. And one of them is to specifically target the sensitive information stored on the computers used by a company’s top executives, in the hope of finding valuable data that can best pressure bosses into approving the payment of a sizeable ransom.
