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Cloud Application Security: What Every Organization Needs to Know About Protecting Data in SaaS Apps

The rise of hybrid work has accelerated digital transformation for organizations of all sizes. As a result, more and more applications and data are moving to the cloud. While this has created a number of benefits — including cost savings, ease of access, and increased operational efficiencies — the cloud has also made it more challenging to protect sensitive data.

Work From Home, Quiet Quitting, and How Insider Risk Has Changed

March 2023 marks approximately three years since the world shut down at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since then, organizations have seen their workforce change considerably. What was originally a short term plan to work from home has become ingrained in our new work culture. According to a recent LinkedIn poll, at-home work is ticking back up. Only 50% of workers are in the office full-time, the rest work from home full-time or have a hybrid schedule.

CyberArk Achieves ISO/IEC 27018 Certification - an International Standard for Cloud Privacy

It is my distinct honor to announce that CyberArk has officially achieved ISO/IEC 27018:2019 certification – the first privacy-specific international standard for cloud service providers focused on safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII), one of the most mission-critical components of cloud security.

The Value of SOC-as-a-Service

Today’s cybersecurity landscape can be challenging. Cyber attacks are rising every year (50% of organizations suffered a breach in 2022), the skills gap continues to widen, and hackers are taking advantage of new techniques and new criminal networks like ransomware-as-a-service to launch sophisticated attacks. For organizations, it’s become harder to stay secure. The internal security operations center (SOC) isn’t feasible for many.

What Is Malvertising?

Malvertising–also called malicious advertising–is when cybercriminals use advertisements to infect devices with malware. Malvertising can appear on any advertisement you see online, you don’t necessarily have to be on a malicious website to be a victim of this cyberthreat. When a victim is exposed to a malvertisement, their device and data are at risk of being compromised, even if they don’t interact with the advertisement.

Why cybersecurity is a perfect storm for the public sector

In 1991, a weather system formed off the east coast of the United States with a cold front that created a low pressure ridge to the east of Nova Scotia. At the same time, a high-pressure system extending out from the Appalachian Mountains forced the ridge first southeast and then to the west, where it encountered the remnants of Hurricane Grace, which it promptly absorbed and swelled in size as it did so.

Ransomware Distributed by Fake Tripadvisor Reviews

The Knight ransomware-as-a-service offering (formerly known as “Cyclops”) is using phony TripAdvisor complaints to deliver its malware, BleepingComputer reports. “A newer version of this campaign spotted and analyzed by BleepingComputer now includes an HTML attachment named 'TripAdvisor-Complaint-.PDF.htm,’” BleepingComputer says.

Expert Advice on Prioritizing, Automating and Collaborating for Threat Detection and Response

In a recent panel discussion led by David Neuman, Sr. Analyst with TAG Cyber, ThreatQuotient’s Dave Krasik, Sr. Director of Product Management and Jessica Bair Oppenheimer, Director, Cisco Security Strategic Alliances shared their insights on data-driven security operations. The discussion focused on the challenges and importance of prioritizing, automating and collaborating to detect and respond to threats, and was followed by a demo of the ThreatQ Platform.

Hospital Staffing Solutions Suffers a Data Breach Exposing Over 100K Individuals

Hospitality Staffing Solutions is a short-term employment provider or temp agency that sends workers to a variety of hospitality-related organizations. Companies such as restaurants, hotels, colleges, casinos, senior living, and some light industrial establishments rely on workers provided by the company. The organization employs over 10,000 people and earns an estimated $4.3 billion in revenue annually.