The digital world relies on data, which because of its considerable value, is constantly targeted by skilled cybercriminals who have spent years developing methods and tools to gain access to even the most secure databases. Never mind those databases whose owners only pay lip service to security. Traditional security approaches that focus on network perimeters are no longer sufficient in today's evolving threat landscape.
The Importance of Email Continuity Email is the lifeblood of many organizations. It serves as a primary channel for communication, document sharing, scheduling, and collaboration. When email services experience downtime due to various reasons such as server issues, maintenance, or cyberattacks, businesses can face significant challenges: Microsoft 365: A Powerful Email Solution Microsoft 365 offers a robust and feature-rich email service through Exchange Online.
Understanding Social Engineering Social engineering is a psychological manipulation technique used by cybercriminals to deceive individuals into divulging confidential information, performing specific actions, or making financial transactions. These attacks prey on human psychology rather than exploiting technical vulnerabilities. Social engineering attacks can take various forms, and email is a common vector for such schemes.
Customers are our number one priority at Netskope, and it’s our job to inspire their confidence and trust, especially when it comes to major technology architecture shifts like Security Service Edge (SSE) and SASE, and the need to apply zero trust principles to every interaction with data. With that in mind, we are excited to announce that Netskope has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice in the 2023 Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer”: Security Service Edge.
Snyk has been a long-time active participant in and sponsor of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). We’re there because we believe in supporting its mission of securing the open source ecosystem. A recent summit meeting convened by the OpenSSF with the White House brought together various US Government departments for a chat about open source security.
On October 3, 2023, Daniel Stenberg, the long-time curl maintainer and original author, published a note on both LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter) regarding the shipping of curl version 8.4.0, which will contain a fix for "probably the worst security problem found in curl in a long time." This issue should be taken seriously as curl maintainers have been vocal about downplaying the risk associated with most vulnerabilities reported against curl in the past (a recent example is the article CVE-2020-1990
Darkbeam is a top-performing cyber vulnerability and threat management provider with less than 25 employees. The company has reported over $1 million of revenue in recent years, with numbers as high as $5 million. Their recent acquisition by ApexAnalytics will hopefully increase these statistics, but numbers mean nothing if Darkbeam cannot rebuild its reputation. Darkbeam is the most recent company to suffer over 3 billion records stolen during a data breach.
Financial entities throughout the European Union are preparing for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), a new piece of legislation to strengthen the digital resilience of credit institutions, investment firms, insurers, and more. DORA focuses on breach prevention and cyber resilience, meaning financial institutions must prioritize both protecting their attack surface and incident response planning.
