This in-depth analysis explores CVE-2020-25669, a vulnerability that exploited a memory corruption issue in Linux Kernel.

Modern-day enterprise risk management (ERM) is a disciplined, organization-wide approach to identifying and addressing a wide range of enterprise risks, such as operational risk, financial risk, compliance risk, and strategic risk. Organizations with robust ERM programs can better manage and mitigate risk and minimize the potential for losses or damage. ERM incorporates different strategies, tactics, and plans for each type of risk because those risks affect the organization in different ways.

WatchGuard and Miercom, an independent organization focused on product testing, have worked together on testing three MFA solutions to assess performance and cost effectiveness, as well as user and admin experience. AuthPoint MFA was tested competitively with two similar solutions: Cisco Duo and Azure MFA.

Organizations have started considering cybersecurity as a top priority lately. The amount of money invested in IT infrastructure is increasing at an exponential rate. Further, dedicated teams are formed to monitor and optimize the performance of the different solutions that each organization has in its environment. Similarly, when it comes to cybersecurity, it’s become essential to evaluate and quantify the security posture of every organization.

In a previous post my colleague spoke about how ensuring devices on your network is a great way to minimize the attack surface of your infrastructure. Organizations like the Center for Internet Security (CIS) provide guidelines on how to best configure operating systems to minimize the attack surface. The CIS calls these “benchmarks.”

The importance of cyber security compliance training cannot be underestimated, especially in the current era where we are seeing an increasing number of cybercrimes in the industry. As a business owner, conducting cybersecurity compliance training is now not just an option but an essential part of cybersecurity and various compliance programs. Unfortunately, most businesses are still far from taking such training programs seriously.

Cybersecurity starts with the ability to recognize your cyber risk. We will explore several topics related to taking a practical approach to managing risk and achieving cyber resilience. This is a blog series with collective thoughts from Bindu Sundaresan, Director AT&T Cybersecurity, and Nick Simmons, AVP, Cybersecurity. Cybercrime has become increasingly frequent, complex, and costly, posing a risk to all businesses regardless of size. How do you plan to respond when falling victim to a breach?

Establishing proper privileged account management procedures is an essential part of insider risk protection. There are some common mistakes companies make when managing accounts of privileged users. In this article, we overview eight widespread poor account management practices, analyze their consequences, and discuss ways to improve them. We also take a look at Ekran System’s account management capabilities that you can benefit from.

A cyber attack can happen to businesses of any size or structure. In order to protect your data and your systems, it is important to have a plan in place. This means having protocols in place for dealing with a cyber threat, and making sure all of your employees are aware of the plan and know what to do if an attack occurs. In this blog post, we will discuss the importance of incident response planning and how you can secure a structure that is right for your business.

Cybersecurity is important because of the major risk data breaches pose. Now more than ever, personal and confidential data such as banking information, addresses, or financial documents are being shared and saved online. Without proper cybersecurity, this data becomes an easy target for cyberattacks which can cause monetary and reputational damage to people and businesses. Cyberattacks take on different forms.