Recently, we announced that 1Password Business customers will soon be able to unlock 1Password with Okta.

This week, UK’s Postal Service, Royal Mail has been hit with a Ransomware attack, which put the countries sensitive data at risk. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at what ransomware is, how it can affect businesses and individuals, and what we’ve learnt from this huge scale attack. Stay tuned for more updates on this developing story.

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot created by OpenAI, reaching 1 million users at the end of 2022. It is able to generate fluent responses given specific inputs. It is a variant of the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) model and, according to OpenAI, it was trained by mixing Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and InstructGPT datasets. Due to its flexibility and ability to mimic human behavior, ChatGPT has raised concerns in several areas, including cybersecurity.

With attackers constantly developing new tactics to compromise credentials and data, it is increasingly important to monitor critical systems such as Active Directory (AD) for signs of malicious activity. Many organizations turn to security information and event management (SIEM) products for help.

Once an attacker establishes a foothold in your Active Directory (AD) domain, they begin looking for ways to achieve their final objective, such as to sensitive data on file servers or in databases, spread ransomware or bring down your IT infrastructure. To do so, they must first gain additional access rights — ideally, membership in highly privileged groups like Domain Admins. BloodHound Active Directory helps them find paths to do just that.

New hires bring fresh ideas and unique skills but can also pose a threat. They can endanger your organization’s sensitive data and IT systems due to carelessness, lack of cybersecurity awareness, or malicious intent. The potential insider threats stemming from new employees are especially concerning for large organizations with a high flow of personnel who may find it challenging to thoroughly monitor and supervise all new hires security-wise.

Logging is an important tool in the cloud developer’s toolbox. It can be the critical component used to discover why your authentication service can’t connect to its database or why your API gateway is not routing upstream traffic correctly. Today, humans are not the only ones reading logs. Machines are also participating in the logging landscape by helping identify patterns (and outliers) in your system logs.

Hybrid working models have increasingly become the normal way of doing business. Employees are working from anywhere, users and their devices are moving on and off the office network, and many applications once hosted in data centers are now moving to public clouds or being replaced with software as a service (SaaS).

In this episode of 2023 Predictions, Sathya Sankaran, General Manager of CloudCasa by Catalogic, speaks with Swapnil Bhartiya on his insights into where he sees the industry heading in 2023. The pandemic resulted in the acceleration of cloud adoption and digital transformation and Sathya expects this momentum to continue in 2023 as well.

I am sure many of you have heard the term “cybersecurity is a team sport.” If you haven’t, I say get on the right team. Security is a complex, ever-changing game of skill and preparedness (never chance). As we like to say here at Splunk, it is all about cyber resilience. To best be prepared to win this game, we need the best team. As with any team sport, there really needs to be other teams - after all what fun is it playing by yourself?